Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
TRIANGLE TRAFFIC
CHECKS HEAVIER
ON 18TH STREET
Trade Board Representatives
Sustain Contention Com
pairing 18th Street.
CASE TO BE LAID
BEFORE PLANNERS
2,724 to 1880 Morning Rush Hour
Data Favoring Plea for
Building Change.

Continuing its count of the trafic en-
tering and leaving the area of the tri-
angle, the Washington Board of Trade
this morning and yesterday evening OBJ
tanned figures substantiating its conten-
ton that Thirteenth street-to be
blocked by the Government develop
ment-carries much greater number
Of vehicles than does Twelfth street,
which will be allowed to continue south
Of Pennsylvania avenue.
Saturday representatives of the board
will appear before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to pre-
sent their case, for which they have
been fighting since early last week, that
the present building plans for the tri-
angle do not provide for adequate
handling Of traff1c, and should be
changed.
The particular bone of contention is
Thirteenth street. 1t Is proposed to cut
of this street at Pennsylvania avenue
with solid line of buildings extending
from Twelfth to Fourteenth street.
Eleventh street Is already blocked at
G street, Tenth street at B street and
Eighth street at the Avenue.
Count Passing Vehicles.
Yesterday morning and afternoon and
this morning, members of the Board
of Trade stood on the corners of Thir-
tenth and Twelfth street. and, under
direction of A. G.. Seller, an engineer
Of the Traffic Bureau, counted the We
hicles as they passed.
AS result of their computations It
was shown that during the morning
rush hour, between 8:15 and 9:15
o'clock, 2,724 vehicles passed over the
intersection of Thirteenth street with
Pennsylvania avenue, while at Twelfth
street there were 1880.
In the afternoon, between Ais and
Sis o'clock, there were 3,109 vehicles
at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue and ATS at Twelfth and the
Avenue.
It is pointed out that the difference
| in these comparative figures is due al
most entirely to the north and south
| traffic, since the trafflc along Pennsyl-
vania avenue at both Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets is fairly constant.
Comparison Of Figures.
A comparison of the traffic crossing
Pennsylvania avenue on the two num-
bered streets, indicates that during the
morning rush hour 1872 vehicles trav-
eled north on Thirteenth street as
against 236 for Twelfth street, and $50
travelled south on Thirteenth street
against 2+8 in the same direction on
Twelfth.
During the afternoon rush hour the
count showed SOS vehicles went north
on Thirteenth and 500 north on
Twelfth. The same period saw 329
south bound on Thirteenth and only
1875 on Twelfth.
BY these figures the board hopes to
prove to the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission Saturday morn
ing that Thirteenth street is the princi-
pal avenue of entrance and exit to the
triangle and that If this should be
blocked. even at the present time,
hopeless congestion of traffic would
ensue. Particular attention is called to
the fact that when the $4,000 persons
who will find employment in the new
Government development enter and
leave that comparatively small district
daily, the situation will be immeasur-
ably worse.