Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25


avenue, Allison street, Iowa avenue
and Buchanan street.
The time taken to make this cir
cuitous route is 81 minutes, and the
buses on the line hold to a VA min
ute Roadway schedule.
1t should be pointed out here that
various combinations OF the above
mentioned w. r. T. routes are oper-
ated during rush hours to provide
extra and through service.
City service between Fourteenth and
Kennedy streets and the District line
is furnished by Maryland buses run
ming via Kennedy street. Sixteenth
street, Alaska avenue and Georgia
avenue. These buses run every 10
minutes and the time occupied In max.
ing their trip is Is minutes.
The bus lines of the Capital Trac'
ton Co. cover a wide area and stretch
long arms into widely separated sec
tions of the city. One OF its lines runs
from Four-and. a-half and p streets to
Eleventh and M streets southeast via
Delaware avenue, Third street, NJ
street, Potomac avenue and Eleventh
street, returning via M street, Third
street, l. street, Water street and r
street Fleet, safe carriers cover the
round trip in rs minutes with users
accommodated by 15-minute Roadway
service.
Service to RandIe Highlands.
1t takes a Capital Traction bus just
exactly 271a minutes to run from East
ern High School to Randle Highlands
Twenty.fifth street and Naylor road
southeast), going by way or Seven
teenth street, A street, Eighteenth
street, B street. Nineteenth street. Il
street, Potomac avenue, FIFTEENTH
street, Kentucky avenue. Pennsyi-
vania avenue and thence over the
same route back to the high schooi.
This line is for Randle Highlands
Twining City, Congressional Cemetery
Gallinger Hospital. Almshouse, Dis'
trict jail and Eastern High School.
Another one OF this company's
routes is from Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast to
Good Hope alabama avenue ana
Good Hope road and return via Penn
sylvania, Branch and Alabama ave-
nues. Operated on a Commute heao.
way. buses on this line run out ano
back in 26 minutes.
THE Connecticut avenue and MO-
Kinley street loop, so called, - map
ned out via, Western avenue, Kitten
house street, Thirty second street
MCKINLEY street, Belt road, Forty
MCKINLEY street, Belt road, Forty :
first street, Davenport street, belt
road, Wisconsin avenue to NeDrasks
avenue, north on Wisconsin. avenue
Belt road, Davenport street. Eor.y-
first street, Belt road. MCKINNEY
street to Connecticut avenue.
The Chevy Chase Circle Eapitoi
Coach line, or the de luxe 2O.cent
M nfko1 rrv.o Nffnn Co. Tnks
lows a. course from Chevy Chase
Circle down Connecticut avenue, Kali
Drama road, Eighteenth street. q
street, Seventeenth street, ! street
Thirteenth street, Z street, Union
Station Plaza, Delaware avenue,
Capitol grounds, New Jersey avenue,
B street southeast. This long trip
is made in 20 minutes, going and
coming, and the smooth running,
remarkably comfortable and we'll
appointed coaches run on headWay
of 20 minutes. ;.
Taking in the golf courses Capt..
tai Traction bus leaves Fifteenth anc
Pennsylvania avenue (back OF the
Treasury every 80 minutes ana goes
by way Of the Park roadway 70
Seventeenth and = to the nloal
Basin, to the Inlet Bridge to -Four
teenth street, to Golf Course drive to
the clubhouse, returning on Speed,
way to Fourteenth to northeast side OF
| the Tidal Basin to Seventeenth and
B streets, through the park and Ellip.
! Sc to Fifteenth and e streets to Fiji
teenth and Pennsylvania avenue. The
| round trip is completed in 20 min
i utes.
Line Goes to Haines Point.
There remains but. one more line OF
all the many criss-crossing the Capita
| to be accounted for and detailed. That
| is the Haines Point line OF the
Capital Traction Co. 1t starts from
| Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue
| also back Of the Treasury, and
goes via Treasury place, south OF the
White House, State place, seven
tenth street, B street, Lincoln Me
| mortal drive, Memorial Branch road,
| Speedway, Haines Point; returning
via the Speedway, Fourteenth street
| Tidal Basin, Seventeenth street, 4
! street, Park, Ellipse, Fifteenth and Z
streets and Fifteenth and Pennsyl
| vania avenue.
| That brings to a close the outline
| of facts regarding Washington's bus
| systems, the routes they take. the
places they cover, their running time
/ and their Roadway.
These facts, bald as they are. should
| give some indication of the place the
/ motor bus has assumed in the daily
| life of the National Capital.
| That which affects transportation
/ affects every phase of q community
lifeI touches every possible angle o.
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