10-Year Plan Drafted For Development of D. C. Area Highways (Cont&nwdProm Pat* A-4.) Canal to the new elevated east- bound 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 sys- tem to 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 . 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 with new southbound Council.______roadway connection to Twenty- bound on . 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 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 - 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 . 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 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 . 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 N.W. to we’re not going to quit." Mr. l tain to one-way operation west- to Irving street. heart of the city traffic merely Fourth street N.E. Glassman said such an authority bound. hill to from one part of One-way treatment figures here, might be set up through , a com- Widen E street and New York Construct tunnel through seeking get House of un- town to the other. A 25 per cent as well as channelizing at Six- pact of the Federal Government. avenue from Twentieth street to adjacent to Mercy, road. 'reduction in downtown traffic teenth street N.W., Park place Maryland and Virginia to regulate i South Executive drive to 44 feet der Klingle would result from this diversion, N.W. and Harewood road N.E. An public transportation, parking, where necessary. Construct bridge over Beach believe. important part of the project is traffic control and highway Widen South Executive drive drive and Rock Creek with ramp the planners of the by-passing Michigan avenue by development. and E street to Fourteenth street connections to Piney Branch Extension one-way with the cutting straight through the south The group agreed to the setting to two 33-foot roadways with 4- Parkway. street principle, coupled of certain thoroughfares, portion of Soldiers’ Home. up of a steering committee to foot median. Construct bridge across Rock widening same to include, from each county and from Fourteenth and to con- is intended,- at the time, Includes Isolated Projects. Channelize Creek and Beach drive in the a increase street capacity in the city city area, representative E streets to Thirteenth and E, nect with Park road and ramp Isolated such as small to a projects, of the governing body and citizens’ across Pennsylvania ave- Beach heartland. This would lead streets connection to drive. bridges over Oxon Run in the organizations. This committee is into freer traffic flow in the central nue. Cost, $2,277,530. Rebuild Park road bridge southeast corner of the city and to meet with officials of the House area in Total Cost Group m. $50,384,- Tilden street. general. road improvement in the Deane- and Senate committees to discuss Once the downtown sector is 141. Construct across Blagden wood area N.E., are contemplated. the Then bridge its procedure for hearings. avenue Creek with con- squared away to receive maxi- Is GROUP IV. and Rock As for the future needs—proj- a meeting similar to the one held V What Chlorophyll? avenue and mum traffic capacity under the nections to Colorado ects that should be completed last will be set for the actual ' IV' of the Immediate directed night Group Beach drive. plan, attention would be within the next 10 years—$43.6 Chlorophyll is the wonder-working consists at the de- co-ordination of testimony. Needs Program Construct grade separation over toward freer movement along the in the substance found in all route million has been allocated D. C. Heads Not Represented. green plants. velopment of a cross-town road with connection to city’s radial routes. and Military plan. The District Commissioners were Dentists use chlorophyll* prepara- in the vicinity of Irving street These are the main arteries Military road. Included are the Fort drive proj- not represented at the meeting. A tions as a and to aid the and related proj- at District’s boundar- deodorant, Construct grade separation starting at the ect, which would circle the North- letter from James H. Flanagan, ects in the vicinity of Soldiers* of tender gums. Bingham drive with connections ies. and the program contemplates east-Northwest section of the city chairman of the District Public repair Home. Rittenhouse street and Nebraska improvement of present facilities just Inside the. District line; ex- Utilities Commission, to the Ar- •Wattr-toUbl* Cklorapkyllim Street and Colombia new. 46. Irving avenue. and creation of tending Rock Creek parkway from lington commission said the Wash- Road-Klingle Road N.W.to 4th at Construct grade separation Cut-ins for Buses. Connecticut avenue to the Dis- ington PUC decided not to send N.E.—Place in one-way Street Wise road with connections. trict line; expansion of traffic flow a representative because it does not road east-’ Chief points in immediate needs Proves operation, Columbia Construct roadways With vary- facilities of Canal road from Ari- plan to present evidence at the Here Science street westbound. among the radials: bound and Irving ing, median, including ramps and zona avenue to the District line, hearings. Chlorodent Mouth from . “Bus cut-ins beyond Stops Repave Columbia road connections to above structures to bays”—or as well as the roadway system be- “If the committees of the Con- to 13th street. curbing—to permit buses Odor Hours! create a parkway facility with two present tween Constitution avenue and gress desire any expression of for out of the stream of traffic Repave Irving street from Park 33-ft. roadways from Calvert to pull the Highway Bridges and, on New views from this commission upon Sixteenth street Chlorodent'* effectiveness in stopping Place to Adams Mill road. street to the D. C.-Maryland line. for stops along York avenue N.E., construction of the proposed legislation,” Mr. and Connecticut avenue N.W. mouth odor was with the sci- Realign Irving street at 14th Cost. $26,200,000. an overpass at Florida avenue and Flanagan said, “the commission proved and extension of North All the men and street and at Georgia avenue (re- Military road and Missouri ave- Widening an underpass at West Virginia will be pleased to appear at such entific osmometer. street from D street all . Yet quires property acquisition). nue to Twenty-seventh street— Capitol avenue. hearings. . . If the proposed women tested had bad breath. road from through Soldiers’ Home Widen Adams Mill Repave from Georgia avenue to the. way Obligated Projects Included. legislation should be enacted and 2 hours after brushing teeth with street to Klingle road, 2- street with two to Hawaii avenue. if the Interstate Commerce Com- Irving Twenty-seventh The planners have included in Chlorodent, breath was still fresh and 23’ 4’ median. with 4-ft. median. Widening of the entire length mission deems it necessary and roadways.-with 24-ft. roadways the overall program all the proj- clean in 98% of the cases! 4 hears Channelize 16th street between Under Six- of . that this committee Construct underpass ects for which funds already have practicable out of 4 were stUI street and Columbia road. Constructing Kenilworth, New with it in such later, 3 completely Irving teenth street (eliminate Joyce been obligated, either partly or in co-operate Investi- major intersections as York and South Dakota avenues gation, the commission (the free of bad breath! singnitaa road separation). full, as well as related projects level NK. as links to the - PUC) will be very happy to do required. Construct high bridge necessary to their operation. street over Rock Washington Parkway, and the East so.” The letter was read at the Extend Irving through north of existing bridge These obligations, totaling more at the from Park Place Street Bridge, with ex- Mr. Glassman. Now Strike Very Soldiers’ Home Creek. Capitol than $13 million, include such meeting by 4th two 33’ roadways tensive east and west approaches, Prince Georges County Commis- Tooth , to streetNJI., Construct underpass at Missouri projects as the Causes of Decayt a 4’ as a link to the Annapo- sioner Edward J. (Ned) Waters with median. Cost; $1,268,811. avenue and Georgia avenue. Cost, proposed Bridge and some of the approach Place-Warder Street— and the Baltimore told the group he will present to Chlorodent reduces mouth 47. Paris $5,300,000. lis Freeway routes on both sides of the Ana- greatly his full board, at a meeting to- "eat" into tooth Place in one-way operation Park Fort drive- to Parkway. costia River, as well as the New acids-that enamel, more ambitious in the morrow, the suggestion that a place and 5th street northbound South Dakota avenue—Construct Even York, South Dakota and Kenil- helps combat bacteria causing these of the governing from Michigan avenue to Grant two 24-ft. roadways as per Na- worth avenue connections to the representative acids. testify at the hearings. Circle and Warder street and 7th tional Capital Park and Planning on independence avenue separat- Baltimore parkway. body Montgomery County Director of street from Michigan avenue to Commission’s plan, including grade ing east-west traffic. More than $14 million in addi- north- Public Works Mason A. Butcher, * southbound. separation and interchanges. as Repave and construct tional funds is needed to complete Tidal Basin speaking for County Manager Acquire property for Warder required. Cost, $11,800,000. bound roadway from this category and the amount is avenue. Irving G. McNayr, said he will street between Columbia road and Fort drive-Military road to Ne- bridge to Independence included in the immediate needs Ba6in two the proposal to the Michigan avenue. braska avenue—Construct two 24- Rebuild Tidal bridge, cost. present roadways with 4 foot County Council. Repave Park place from Michi- roadways as per National Capi- 33-foot ft. The Falls Church City Council gan avenue to Quincy strwt. tal Park and Planning Commis- median. roadway from Tidal wffi be officially advised of the Pave new roadway of Warder sion’s including grade sep- Rebuild plan, of South- Planners action by City Manager street between Columbia road and interchanges as Ppgjn Bridge to terminus Ana Highway group’s * arations and two 33-foot road- W, Bodes Woodbury, who at- Michigan avenue; Cost, west Freeway, required. $3,400,000. Cost, tended the meeting. Channelize intersection with ways with 4-foot median. in 1948 New York avenue—Construct Began Project The proposal for eventual cre- new cross-city route. '(Irving overpass at Florida avenue. Con- $4320,000. _ _t The Planning avenue, E street Regional Highway ation of a Metropolitan Area Columbia road). Montana ave- New Hampshire led to roowPASri, street and Cost; struct underpass at Committee whose studies the came from Mr. Bridge to Washington Circle— transit authority $421,040. nue and West . District’s highway project of Widen to two 24-foot roadways present Glassman, J. H. Connaughton Total cost group IV; $1,689,851. Cost, $4,600,000. and which will be further reflected Win- median and surface where the District Federation and and Potomac Park- with on GROUP V. Rock Creek in forthcoming reports Mary- ters Haydock of Alexandria, for- (Hilo Avenue—Extend Rock necessary. Cost, $250,000. been at way, Penn- land and Virginia, has mer directing engineer for the Group V of tbs Immediate Needs on Eye and H streets N.W„ Creek and Potomac parkway work on the area highway maze Transit Commis- consists of miscellaneous avenue to New Hamp- Pittsburg City Program new line by construction of new sylvania street in since 1948. sion wad also former utility engi- improvements not directly related fill D street shire avenue—Place Eye sea wall and from Its membership is: neer for St. Louis. to either of the preceding groups. one-way operation westbound and present NW. to Independence avenue Samuel R. Harrison, District Allen J, representing The 11 mentioned in to 44 feet where necessary. O’Brien, structures under second arch of Memorial widen Mc- said street to Highway Department; K. G. the Defense' Department, Item 50 are mainly replacements continue one-way south- Channalize Eye Eye Bridge to Wayne, Virginia Highway Depart- problems have pre- of existing defective or deficient Rock Creek street across Pennsylvania avenue. transportation bound operation of Lewis, jr., Maryland sented difficulties in recruiting and will not be con- Place H street in one-way op- ment; George structures parkway (33-foot roadway). The ex- widen to State Roads Commission; A. C. and retaining personnel. structed M a single group but will Ohio avenue from In- eration eastbound and Repave Dunn, Federal Bureau of Public pense involved in bus usd street- be Interspersed during the progress .avenue to 14th street 44 feet where necessary. Cost, dependence Roads; John Nolen, jr.. National car transportation, the lack of of the entire Improvement pro- bridge. $340,000. and Haf facilities street Construct Capital Park and Planning Com- adequate transfer gram. N Construct 33 foot roadway from Esst Capital for with interchange mission; Warren Adams, repre- the length of tiflte required 4S. fateraeettm Minnesota and Memorial plaza to 26th street grade separation travel cited Ur. road. Cost $1,620,000. senting the combined transit in- empkw $ Pwimeylvanla dwennta—Construct; crossing Constitution avenue. at at Boning the agency Used* tonate <* the area, ind Col. Ohio O’Brien asreasons tfh/ for northbound . Total-Putae* Program-. one-way ramp grade- of the Army. to testify at the hearings. mini—nta Knox, Department plana avenue traffic to west* Construct S grade separations $43.68534$. M k