and Washington Channel across Anacostia River mouth to eastern shoreline, then follow Potomac River shoreline to District Line. Anacostia Park (included), and point cf Fort McNair East also includes the Suitland Parkway to Eastern Boundary Anacostia Park (not included) Western Boundary Western Avenue Mr. HARTZOG. I knew I could not get away with that so I have a list of everything. I want to share with you what we did to try to improve the management of these parks. One of our great needs was for management supervision close to the operating level of the parks. So we divided the National Capital Parks into five districts, each in charge of a superintendent. I will give you the makeup of each of those districts. I will also give you the visitation for each of them and how many employes there are in each of them. (The information follows:) MAKEUP OF EACH 5 DISTRICTS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS Park or district 1. National Capital Parks-Central (largely the memorial and Mall area and river front parks in the original L'Enfant Capital City as defined in detail on preceding page)... 2. National Capital Parks-East (largely those park areas east of the Anacostia River as defined in detail on preceding page). 3. National Capital Parks-North (largely those park areas north of Florida Ave. as defined in detail on preceding page).. 4. Catoctin Mountain Park and Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Catoctin Mountain Park is a wooded park of 5,768.90 acres near Thurmont, Md. Baltimore-Washington Parkway is an approach parkway from approximately Laurel, Md., to District of Columbia and includes Greenbelt Park).. 5(a). George Washington Memorial Parkway (includes the parkway and related facilities from the beltway to District of Columbia on the Maryland side of the Potomac River, and to Mount Vernon on the Virginia side, and includes the Custis-Lee Mansion and C. & O. Canal from Great Falls to Rock Creek).. 5(b). Prince William Forest Park, Va. (This is a wooded park near Triangle, Va., comprising 17,345 acres). 5 (a) and (b) were originally combined.. 1 Visitation represents only those areas and facilities where counts are maintained. The number does not include the many millions using roadways and parks where no counts are maintained. The number of positions do not include 472 authorized police positions but do include a prorated share of the positions located in centralized shops and administrative and professional employees. Mrs. HANSEN. How many visitors do you have in the National Capital parks? Mr. HARTZOG. We have about 244 million visits to the National Capital parks. You could be right, about 18 million of them are right in the city. ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD SITE AND CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL MONUMENT Mrs. HANSEN. Justify your request for an area manager for the Antietam National Battlefield site. Mr. HARTZOG. Antietam is near Harpers Ferry. The C. & O. Canal outside of the District of Columbia has been consolidated as a management unit with the Antietam Park. We need an area manager to supervise that operation. STATUS OF TRANSFER OF PARKWAY TO THE STATE OF MARYLAND Mrs. HANSEN. What is the current status on the transfer of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway? Mr. HARTZOG. I have a note on this to share with you here in my book, but it is back with the construction items. I will tell you what it says briefly. 43-215 0-70-pt. 38 We agreed last year that the State of Maryland would get the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on the condition that the Bureau of Public Roads would designate it a part of the Interstate Highway System. Then when we got into trying to negotiate the last settlement of the District of Columbia highway-freeway argument, they found they did not have enough mileage to put the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on the Interstate System for the District of Columbia, so they took it off again. Maryland, of course, said, "Thank you very much, keep it." So I still have it. Then as you well know, the roof fell in on that whole highway program and all the agreements that had been negotiated, or practically all of them, had been repudiated. Part of the agreement was Mrs. HANSEN. This is an example of bad management. Mr. HARTZOG. Certainly it is, but it is more than that. It is a demonstration of bad faith, all the way around, because certain agreements were made, they were negotiated, everybody agreed to them; but now the whole thing is a shambles so far as we are concerned. Practically every element in that plan that involved a park program that was the essence of the negotiation has now been repudiated in the last report that was sent to the Congress. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FREEWAY They are going to put a short tunnel under Lincoln Memorial, for goodness sakes, and put interstate traffic on Independence Avenue and right down the great historic Mall of the Nation's Capital. Well, as you can see, I am not quite happy. Mrs. HANSEN. How much more traffic do they expect Independence Avenue to carry? Mr. HARTZOG. I do not know, but as long as you leave the planning of cities to Mrs. HANSEN. This is very important. Mr. HARTZOG. As long as you leave the final decisions on the quality of cities to highway engineers whose whole concern is dollar value of truck-miles from here to there, or which is the shortest distance between two points, and eliminate the social values of life that make a city a livable environment, you are always going to have a problem. I do not believe that the American public wants that; I do not even believe the trucking industry wants that. I have not met anybody who is involved in the program who wants that. But this is the way it seems to come out here in the District of Columbia. I cannot comprehend that anybody could imagine putting interstate traffic down Independence Avenue on the great Mall of the Capital City. Mrs. HANSEN. Insert in the record the proposed routes? Mr. HARTZOG. I will be glad to. (The information follows:) Proposed routes for Interstate 695 in vicinity of the Mall, Lincoln Memorial, and Tidal Basin (Independence Avenue), and in the vicinity of Anacostia Park. |