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promising means of relieving intolerable traffic congestion,” Fugate said.
He said such innovations represented one of the reasons behind the establishment of the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Division in the Department of Highways last year. That division, headed by Kenneth M. Wilkinson, is coordinating the Shirley Highway experiment and making other mass transit studies.
The major expansion of the experimental busway operation September 14 will be marked with a ceremony being arranged by the Metropolitan Council of Governments. Top federal, state and local officials are expected to participate.
Extension of the busway will mean that the special lanes will be in use from Edsall Road on the South, through Shirlington Circle (where they now end), to 20th Street near the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington on the north.
The extra mile and a half will provide one 18-foot-wide lane for the buses, and has been built on a first-priority basis under a federal-aid contract continuing the reconstruction of the Shirley Highway as part of Interstate 95. The contract was awarded in January.
Another contract just approved by the Commission - and in which the Federal Highway Administration has concurred - gives priority to extending the busway an additional two and a half miles to the 14th Street Bridge into Washington next spring. That overall contract also provides for reconstruction of the complex Shirley Highway “mixing bowl” interchange at the Pentagon.
The extensions will supplement the reserved lanes in use for the past year between Edsall Road and Shirlington Circle. On that segment, two center lanes designed for eventual use in a reversible pattern by inbound and outbound traffic at peak periods, when the Shirley reconstruction
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