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10-Year Plan Drafted For Development of D. C. Area Highways (Cont&nwdProm Pat* A-4.) Canal to the new elevated eastbound roadway. Cost, $3,350,875. 43. Arizona avenue, Van Neea street to Canal road—Construct parkway, two 24-foot roadways, with grade separations and inter* changes at Reservoir road. New Mexico avenue. Cathedral avenue and Massachusetts avenue, and with connections over street system to Wisconsin avenue and Ne- braska avenue. Cost, $3,824,693. 43. Rock Creek parkway. Con- stitution to Connecticut*—Build underpass. Twenty-fourth street under Calvert, and roadway con- necting with the parkway, 22 feet Build grade separation for op- posing, north and south bound parkway traffic in vicinity of Con- necticut Avenue Bridge. Rebuild existing bridge across Rock Creek south of Connecticut avenue. Repave Normanstone drive and Pulton street from Massachusetts avenue to Rock Creek parkway, of the D istrict, Maryland and Virginia examine a map of the Metro- 30 feet including ramp connec- STUDY AREA TRANSIT PROBLEMS—Representatives Courthouse on problems. The conferees included, left to right, seated: tions to parkway. politan Area as they confer at the Arlington transportation O. B. chairman of the Public Utilities Commission; J. H. Abandon Waterside drive con- Allen O’Brien, representing the Department of Defense; Allen, Arlington left to right: Gerald J. Glassman, executive nections to parkway and termi- Connaughton, represer ting the District Federation of Citisens’ Associations; standing, W. Rhodes Falls Church city nate Waterside drive in cul-de-sac. assistant to the Arlington PUC; Edward J. Waters, Prince Georges County commissioner; Woodbury, of the Interfedera- Construct bridges across creek M. A. Butcher.'Montgomery County director of public works, and C. Stephen Duvall, jr., president manager; ~St*r St>ff Ph#l°* north of Que street and then south tion to P street with new southbound Council.______ roadway connection to Twenty- bound on Pennsylvania avenue. third street. Cost, $983,950. under Would Area Bodies Unite Construct underpass j 49. Dean Avenue, Grant Streets Hardier Trees Replace Twenty-third street, for north- and Eastern Avenue; Kenilworth bound traffic from Twenty-second Avenue to Sixty-third Street— Those Felled for Plan Behind ICC street to Parkway. Construct Deane avenue, two 24- Highway Survey “There’s no problem Extend Twenty-sixth street foot roadways from Kenilworth Trees will be coming down by anticipated P there, administratively at least,” he from M street to street, 33-foot avennue to Grant street, continue the score if the city’s new highway north- said. The trees and parking divi- On roadway, to connect with on Grant street to Eastern avenue Transportation plan goes through. sion is an of his depart- bound Parkway. and thence on Eastern avenue to adjunct A united effort is underway by But highway planners, always Mr. Brinkley pointed out, Widen Twenty-sixth street to Sixty-third street Requires prop- ment, Metropolitan Area governing bodies 44 feet from Constitution avenue erty acquisition. Cost, $834,900. a bit nervous when recommending and would be instructed to draw and citizens’ groups to support to K street. 50. Miscellaneous Minor Struc- road projects that necessitate tree on District nursery stock to re- Federal bills calling for Interstate Construct underpass of Penn- tures Over Watts Branch and removal, supply a soothing answer. place the victims of the ax. Commerce Commission, investiga- sylvania avenue and M street, 33 Oxon Run (Not Indicated by num- Too many of Washington’s He said that large numbers of tion of public transportation. are on their feet ber on Map)—Eleven structures at arboreal beauties dead Washington’s trees were planted The governing bodies of Arlipg- . Widen Parkway to six lanes various locations. Cost $1,587,800. feet as it is and-should give way generations ago and many are iton. Falls Church and Montgom- with median from Connecticut Total cost Group V, $3,406,650. to a new generation of vigorous soft-wood varieties. ery and Prince Georges Counties •venue to Que Street Bridge. Total—Immediate Needs Pro- saplings, they say. “We would see to it that hardy were represented, officially at.& Construct new roadway from to Douglas Brinkley hardwoods were he said. in - gram, $96,434,683. According planted,” meeting last night , Arlington. Waterside drive to P street, 33 of the Highway Department any Among the old-tree roadways The Inter-Federation Council, the feet on west side of creek for Future Needs tree-chopping that would result due for widening under the high- District of Columbia Federation of southbound traffic. The projects listed herein will from the proposed program would jway plan, are Rhode Island ave- Citizens’ Association and the De- Place in one-way operation, become necessary due to traffic be followed immediately by re- inue, Sherman avenue, Vermont fense Department were among the southbound, existing Parkway pressures generated during the placement.__ !avenue and North Capitol.street. other organizations represented: at from P street to Constitution ave- construction period of the preced- the meeting.' nue. Place Twenty-sixth street ing “Immediate Needs Program.” program for the radials Is the The conference was called by from Constitution avenue to P Several of the projects must be Highways perfection of the Rock Creek Park- the Arlington Public Utilities street in one-way operation north- co-ordinated with the Maryland (Continued From First Page.) way system, with numerous over- Commission to discuss Identical bound. Cost, $6,908,123. program, such as Rock Creek passes, creek bridges and ramp bills in the Senate and House, line and N.W. to the vicinity of Lee boule7 44. Twenty-second and Twenty- Parkway to the D. C. systems to tie in with Twenty- calling for the investigation. It vard. ivrnAiiiif the D. C. line. third streets N.W.—Widen Twen- Canal road to third, Twenty-fifth and Twenty- was agreed that an effort will be sixth streets N.W,, among others. made to co-ordinate testimony* ty-second street from Virginia Fourteenth Street Bridge—The Priority to Inner Belt. by to Massachusetts avenue to construction of a bridge across governing bodies and citizens’ or- avenue 'in the Immediacy Links to Canal Road. 44-foot roadway. Widen Twenty- the Potomac river up-stream from Top priority ganizations before the House and class, according to the planners, not minutes to N Fourteenth Arizona avenue, running Senate Committees on Interstate for third street from K street the now existing old through goes to development of an inner- street to 44-foot roadway. Main- street highway bridge and the the Glover-Archbold Parkway, and Foreign Commerce, which will belt routing system skirting the tain Twenty-second street la one- construction of a new overpass at likewise Is in for major treatment hold hearings. No dates for the Park- downtown area. as a radial link Canal have been set. way operation northbound from the Mt. Vernon Memorial to road, hearings Key streets would be converted where an to Ares avenue to Florida avenue. way. Cost, $7,500,000. elevated approach Co-operation Indicate ds Hut ALL DAY Virginia LONG! to one-way use in the Maintain Twenty-third street in Canal road—Foxhall road to permanent Key Bridge from, the west is Gerald J. Glassman, executive area Rock Creek Park- bounded by . assistant to the one-way operation southbound D. C. Line—Construct two 24-foot planned. Arlington commis- way, Q street N.W., Sixth street The said was from Que street to Washington roadways with a 4-foot median. Highway Bridge would get sion, the meeting the first N.E. and G street S.W. a new of its kind circle. Cost, $556,600. Cost, $4,055;645. span upriver from the pres- attended by spokes- In this area, traffic would be ent bridge to replace the old men for both governing bodies and 45. E street N.W.—Widen E Rock Creek Park—Connecticut channelized, with island construc- cantilever structure. Part of the citizens’? groups. Twenty-fifth street to Avenue to D. C. Line—Construct street. tion, at complicated intersections, traffic flow to and from the There were indications that the street (two 33-foot bridge across Rock Creek north of Twenty-first such as Union Station and Mount bridges and Potoniac Park would joint action on the pending bills roadways, if possible). Acquire Calvert street bridge into tunnel Vernon Square. , be diverted over another new may be the forerunner of con- in block between Twen- through hill north of Calvert property Washington Circle would be bridge across Washington Chan- tinued area-wide co-operation on tieth and Twenty-first streets and street. ^ underpassed, and F street S.W. nel. The Channel Bridge would the transportation problem. New York avenue and E street. across Rock Construct bridge would be elevated westbound as a tie into the south boundary of the Commenting on assertions that roadway for one-way for connection to Zoo ARd Construct Creek turn-off from South Capitol street. downtown inner-belt route. the only solution is creation of an J eastbound. /> J traffc Harvard street. Also contemplated in the flve- area transit authority, O. B. Allen, ^ Widen E street from West Exec- Inner-Belt Diversion. Construct overpass over en- to-elght-year plan is the straight- chairman of the Arlington com- ! utive drive through New York f trance to Zoo. The so-called inner-belt is con- ening of the crosstown travel snarl mission, said that, “when we get to street to avenue Twenty-first to Har- in that it street and Columbia the data from the ICC survey, l and main- Construct underpass sidered all-important along Irving 44 feet where necessary, • vard street for ramp connection is designed to keep out of the road, from Klingle road N.W.

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