Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
HEIGHTS RESIDENTS
SEEK LOWER FARES
East Washington Citizens
Vote Resolution Against
Bus Companies.

J A petition to urge the Public Utilities
! Commission to bring about reduction
/ in bus fares in the Bradbury Heights
subdivision was adopted last night by
/ the East Washington Heights Citizens
! Association at a meeting held In the
| Bradbury Heights Methodist Episcopal
Church, 42l3 Bowen road southeast.
committee was appointed to make a
canvass of the 500 residents of the
community affected by the present high
fare rate, and the petition will be filed
with the commission in the near future.
interviewer with the transportation
problem is the providing of adequate
school facilities for the so Bradbury
Heights children between the ages OF
and 10 years who are at present COM
PEELED to Journey as far as 2l2 miles to
the nearest District public school at
Randle Highlands. Taking up this prob
lem, the association voted to present a
request for a portable school in Brad
bury Heights before the School Board Of
the District of Columbia.
Fares Are COntraSted.
The petition for bus fare reduction
contrasts the 15-cent straight fare, or
l0-tokens- for dollar rate, provided by
the w. M & A Motor Line, the only
transportation company operating in
the Bradbury Heights section. with the
8-cent fare offered by the Capital Trac-
ton Co. and the Washington Railway
g. Electric Co. to Hillcrest residents and
Inhabitants OF Congress Heights and
Anacostia, respectively. These compa-
MES both offer Scent transfers also,
whereas, the petition points out, the bus
line provides no transfer facilities.
1t becomes necessary, it was declared
under these circumstances, for children,
if they use buses to journey to and
from school, to pay 80 cents day on
fare alone. High school students for
whom the Eastern High School is the
nearest institution, must spend consid-
erably more, because it is necessary for
their journey to be completed on street
cars.
Petition Is Drafted.
The petition, as introduced, follows
ITO the Honorable Public Utilities Com
mission of the District of Columbia:
1--WE, the undersigned residents OF
Bradbury Heights, Boulevard Heights
and vicinity, respectively, within the
District of Columbia and Maryland, do
hereby petition the Public Utilities Com
mission of the District of Columbia to
further consider the fare of the w. M.
& A. Motor Line, operating between
Seat Pleasant, Md, and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest.
1--WE. the people Of Maryland ana
the District of Columbia, living in this
community, who get on and OH OF the
bus within the District of Columbia,
feel that we are entitled to the same
consideration as people living in this
community who are served by the
washington Railway & Electric Co. and
the Capital Traction Co. We call your
attention to the Capital Traction Co.
serving Hillcrest, which charges only
one fare of cents, with 2-cent trans
fer privilege to all sections of the Dis
trict.
I'VE also invite your attention to the
Washington Railway & Electric Co,
which charges one fare from the vicin-
ity of Congress Heights and Good Hope
to AnacoStia, and a 2-cent transfer TO
all sections of the District, while we,
the people of Bradbury Heights sub
division, are compelled to buy 10 tokens
for 81 or pay straight 15-cent rare,
with no transfer privilege.
Equipment Held Obsolete.
1--WE further ask that you consider
the equipment now used by this line.
Some of the buses are obsolete and the
condition is such that we believe they
are not sale TO operate. .
1--WE further request that this line
establish regular stops along the route
within the District of Columbia, by
placing stop signs at regular intervals,
so that the people will know where TO
get on and of the BUSES.
1--WE also request that uniform Sys-
tenn be established for collecting fares.
Some people are required to pay when
they enter the bus and others pay when
they leave the bus. This has caused
considerable confusion and dissatisfac-
ton among the residents OF this COM
munity.
I'VE the people of this community,
request that the fare on the W., M. o.
A. motor line be reduced to straight
8-cent fare from the District Line 10
Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. We feel that this would only
be justice, inasmuch as we are not
entitled to transfer privileges.
Election of officers of the association,
which was scheduled for last nights
meeting. was postponed until later
date, owing to the absence of the presi-
dent. E. P. HaZleton. H. F. welsh, sec
rotary, presided
up the matter of water and sewage sys-
tenn for the 1900 residents OF Bradbury
Heights, who are at present almost en-
tirely without running water. Mr.. Weish
stated that approximately so OF the
wells. upon which residents depend Ior
their water supply, have oeen con-
demned by the sanitary commission Ill
the past two years.