The Washington herald., 1922-09-29
CAPITAL TRACTION
FIGHTS POTOMAC
BUSROUTE PLAN
Claims Line From Seven
teenth and H Is
Unfair.
CITIZENS OBJECT T
Utilities Commission Hears
Pleas for Changes in
Car Stops.

tai Traction Company developed
yesterday when the Public Utilities
Comm ssion heard the petition Of
the Washington Railway and EIec-
trio Company to discontinue
through service from Friendship
Heights, Nd. to oPtomac Park and
to substitute motor buses from
Seventeenth and H streets to the
present Potomac Park term nal.
John H. Hanna. vice president
and general manager of the Capt.
tai Traction Company, declared that
bus line running parallel to the
car lines of the traction company
would be unfair competition.
Hanna raised no objection to
abandonment of through service, as
asked by William F. Ham, presi-
dent OF the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. This serv-
ice begins at Friendship Heights.
Md, crosses the District Line at
Massachusetts, avenue. and ends at
Nineteenth street and Virginia ave-
nue. northwest. The proposal was
to operate the cars only to Wis
consin avenue and NJ street north
west.
Citizens Oppose.
number of Georgetown residents
entered protest against the aband-
onment of through service. The
Georgetown Citizens Association.
however, endorsed Wisconsin avenue
and M street as the terminal for
these cars.
Representatives of Cathe dral
Heights Citizens Association fought
to retain the present service and de-
manded that through service to
Union Station be restored.
The Public Utilities Commission
also heard several applications of
the Washington Rapid Transit Com
pany.
The first asked permission to dis
continue the operation of the Rapid
Transit Company's motor bus route
on Massachusetts avenue from Union
Station Plaza to Sheridan Circle.
Conrad II. Syme declared that the
short period of service showed there
was no need for this line. 1t is
expected this petition will be
granted.
Seeks Route Changes.
William p. Killeen. president of
the Washington Rapid Transit Com
pany. appeared to argue for per-
mission to operate motor busses
over a connecting route between it's
existing lines. terminating at Four
teenth and Buchanan streets, and
at Grant Circle, via Buchanan
street. Iowa avenue. Allison stree.
and Illinois avenue.
Ham and Samuel r. Bowen, attor-
ney for the Washington Railway
and Electric Company, opposed this
proposed bus line extension as be-
ing unfair competition.
The third petition or the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Company was
for permission to extend its Rhode
Island avenue line from its present
terminus at First and T streets
northwest to Summit place and
Rhode Island avenue northeast.
This extension was supported by
representatives of the North Capitol
and lexington Citizens Association
through whose efforts the petition
to extend the line was filed. Oppo-
sition developed from the officials
Of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company.
Citizens Enter Pleas.
4 petition of the Mid-City Citi-
zens' Association for a change in
the location of the stopping place
for eastbound cars of the Capital
Traction Company from the south
east corner of Fourteenth and U
streets northwest. to the southwest
corner of said streets was heard
by the commission.
A. J. DriscOll and Z. F. Hender-
son appeared to defend the pro-
posed change. Objections were
raised by the Capital Traction
Company to the change and rep
resentatives of the company VOL
UNFAIRLY offered to stop their Chevy
Chase cars twice within the block
to remedy the present difficulty.
The recommendation of the po-
lice department that loading
platform be placed on the south
side of NJ street, west of Wiscon-
sin avenue, at the stopping place
for cars. eastbound, on the Capital
Traction Company line. was op-
posed by representatives of tt,
fire department, who argued that
loading platforms in narrow streets
interfered with the operation Of
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