From and after the completion of the viaduct and approaches to carry Fern Street over the tracks and right-of-way of the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the highway grade crossing over the tracks and right-of-way of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at Chestnut Street shall be forever closed against further traffic of any kind; and from and after the completion of the viaduct and approaches to carry Varnum Street over the tracks and right-of-way of the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the highway grade crossing over the tracks and right-of-way of the said railroad company at Bates Road shall be forever closed against further traffic of any kind, and from and after the completion of the viaduct and approaches to carry Eastern Avenue over the tracks and right-of-way of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the highway grade crossing over the tracks and rights-of-way of the said railroad companies at Quarles Street, shall be forever closed against further traffic of any kind.
(Mar. 3, 1927, 44 Stat. 1354, ch. 306, § 4.)
1981 Ed., § 7-516.
1973 Ed., § 7-516.
This section is referenced in § 9-1205.04.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, switch and siding connections, see § 9-1205.01 et seq.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 9 - Transportation Systems
Chapter 3 - Bridges, Viaducts, and Subways
§ 9–301. Control of bridges; exception
§ 9–302. Construction and repair of bridges over railway and canal rights-of-way
§ 9–303. Bridges across Rock Creek
§ 9–304. Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge
§ 9–306. John Philip Sousa Bridge
§ 9–309. Construction of power boats; exception; “power boats” defined
§ 9–311. Francis Scott Key Bridge
§ 9–312. South Dakota Avenue Bridge
§ 9–313. Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley
§ 9–315. Fern and Varnum Streets and Eastern Avenue Viaducts
§ 9–316. Certain grade crossings to be closed after completion of Fern Street Viaduct
§ 9–317. Van Buren Street Subway
§ 9–318. Grade crossing at Lamond closed
§ 9–320. Michigan Avenue Viaduct — Construction; cost; highway grade closed
§ 9–321. Michigan Avenue Viaduct — Use by street railway companies
§ 9–322. Highway grade crossing at Michigan Avenue closed
§ 9–324. Calvert Street Bridge