Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-17
BUS LINE PROPOSES
EXPRESS SERVICE
Routes Outlined in Petition
to Public Utilities
Commission.

/ The Washington Rapid Transit Co.
| pctitioned the Public Utilities Commits
! sion Yesterday afternoon for authority
| to establish now routes for express on
! limited service which. il granted
would mark u distinct innovation in
motor bus transportation in the Dis
tTict.
The express service would be in adj
dition To the present local service
which also would be augmented when
! the company places in operation Il
number of new buSSes. the purcha SO
ri which was recently authorized by
the commission. The speed service
is planned FOR the potW0rth. Sixteenth
and Kennedy street and Potomac Park
and Lincoln Memorial lines. The
routes over which the limited busses
would run. however. are slightly dit
| ferent from the regular routes. The
use of two streets is contemplated. the
busses using less concested streets.
returning from the main trip during
rush hours, to facilitate rapid move
ment
Proposed Service Explained.
The company's petition was accom-
panied by a letter OF tranSmittal
which explained the proposed eN
press service as follows: at is pro.
posed 10 operate limited hnsses in
conjunction with the service previ-
ouslv given and AS an addition to
such service. Approximately six
| BUSES will be scheduled in the limited
service to start with. three going to
Eighth street and Pennsylvania ave
me and three to Potomac Park.
| These husses would come back over
the limited route to Il point where
{ a ct hn r,f ,,,y
the rush period and then return to
some point downtown to he deter
mined by traffic checks and anal sis
of riding.
I'm addition it is proposed to bring
a number of regular husSes. north
bound during the morning rush hour
ana Southbound during the evening
rush. over the limited route and
carrying no passengers. in order tina
they might be available for return
trip during the rush period. The
service is at no time to be reduced
to less than ) minutes on Sixteenth
street in the non.controlling direc.
ton during the maximum half hour
of peak"
Proposed New Routes.
The new express routes asked for
| follow:
PetWorth to Potomac Park and the
Lincoln Memorial-Southbou over
the same route as the foregoing to
Iowa Circle and from there in Rhode
Island avenue to Fifteenth street, 10
Is street, thence over the regular
| route. using either Madison place or
I'll street, and returning northWard the
same way. with no stops i'm either di-
rection between New Hampshire ave.
nue. and Fifteenth and * streets.
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
northwest to Eighth street and Penn.
Sylvania avenues outhbound over the
regular existing route and return I'm.
til Twelfth and X streets northbound
are reached. thence i'm X street II
Fifteenth street to Florida avenue to
Sixteenth street, where the regular
route will he resumed. There will be
no stops between Florida avenue and
h street.
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets to
| Potomac Park and Lincoln Memorial
-southbound over the regular route
| to Sixteenth and u streets. thence In
New Hampshire avenue to Eighteenth
| street, to III street. and then over
the regular route, returning by regu-
| ular route to Vermont avenue and
street. thence in Fifteenth street To
Irving street. TO Sixteenth street and
| out to the northern terminus on the
latter thOroughfare. There will be
no stops between / and Irving streets
Petworth to Eighth street and
| Pennsylvania avenue-oVer the regu-
lar route Southbound as far as
Sherman Circle, thence in Sherman
| avenue to Vermont avenue To Iowa
| circle. Thirteenth street to Ma ssh
| chuSetts avenue. and from there over
| the regular route to the downtown
| terminus, returning to traverse
( Twelfth street between Massa-
| chusetts and Vermont avenues in
stead of Thirteenth street. No stops
will be made between New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts aNennes