Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-03
Orders to Street Railways by
Interstate Commission.
REDUCES THE TRAVEL TIME
Rearrangement Of Schedules on
Three Local Lines.
RULES RECENTLY
ISSUED
New Regulations Apply to the
Maryland, Anacostta and 14th
Street Cars, Respectively.

Increased frequency in car service on
the Maryland. Anacostia and 14th street
lines is especially ordered in recent regu-
lations of the interstate commerce COM
mission. which have just been made
public.
On and after May 10 the Washington
Railway and Electric Company must
operate eastbound cars over what is
known a. the Maryland line with not
more than 2h minutes between cars
leaving 18th and G. streets northwest,
between 4:3O and 5:15 O'Clock In the
afternoon.
On and after May the Capital Trac-
ton Company must operate on the 18th
street line between Park road and the
Peace Monument a sufficient number of
cars south and eastbound with seat
ing capacity of thirty-three or more
adults. or its equivalent seating capacity.
so as to maintain a headway of not less
than two and one.fourth minutes between
8 and 10 o'clock in the morning Of ali
days except Sundays and holidays. The
present headway or time between cars Is
three minutes.
Former Order Suspended.
The order of the interstate commerce
commission. dated February ., prescrib-
ing q fve-minute headway for north
bound cars between 18th street and New
York avenue and 14th street and Park
road, between 4, 80 and 8 pm. all days
except Sundays and holidays. indepen-
dent of and supplementary to the
schedule operated over the line during
the hours mentioned from points south
and east of 10Th street and New York
avenue. has hQon SlID0rS0da6.
The new regulation. which takes effect
May II, requires the capital Traction
Company to operate between the Peace
Monument and 14th street and Park road.
over the 14th street line. west and north
bound. a suficient number Of cars having
| seating capacity Of thirty-six or more
adults. or its equivalent. with Q headway
OF not more than one minute between the
cars between 4:1j and 6:l5 pm, all days
except Sundays and holidays.
On the Anacostia Line.
The Washington Railway and Electric
Company and the Anacostia and Potomac
River Railroad Company, on and after
May ]. are required 10 operate suiti-
cient number Of south and east bound
cars having q seating capacity OF tnIrly
| six or more adults. and to maintain a
headway of not more than five minutes
bel VI cen 9th and r. streets northwest and
the Anacostia bridge between and 6:15
pm. all days except Sundays and holi-
days. Although . 3h-minute schedule
has been maintained over this line here
tofore; the division Of the line has been
such as to make the headway between
the cars practically a seven-minute sched.
ule.
| No action has yet been made public by
| the commission with reference to the SUBJ
| ject of overcrowding OF cars. and, as al
ready noted In The Star. the regulation
| requiring separate conductors on trailer
| cars has been suspended for sixty days.
| The interstate commerce commission 1t
| IN said. is not oversanguine of it's power,
under the act OF May o. 1905. which save
to it the regulation Of the Washington
street car service.