Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
Representatives to Protest
Change of Triangle Plan
Before Planning Body.
OBJECT TO TERMINATING
MAIN ARTERY AT AVENUE
Contend Change Would Provide No
Entry or Exit for Govern
ment Employees.

The Washington Board of Trade
will appear before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. at 10
O'Clock Saturday morning to present
their case as to why the present plan
for the Government development of
the Triangle should be changed so as
to permit the continuation of Thirteenth
street below Pennsylvania avenue and
otherwise provide adequate facilities
for parking and the handling of traffic
In that areaa
George v. Graham. chairman of the
the subject, and Robert j. Cottrell,
Board OF Trade executive secretary,
conferred late yesterday afternoon
with officials of the planning body. who
evinced keen interest in the subject and
a readiness to listen to the boards con-
tentions in the matter.
Appeal to Official Body.
In going before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission the
representatives of the Board of Trade
will appeal to the body which has been
ofhcialfy designated to make recon-
mendationS concerning the traffic situa-
ton In the triangle development, and
whose opinion will probably have most
weight in obtaining q change in, the ex-
istant building plan.
The trade body took steps today
toward securing an estimate of the
trafflc on Pennsylvania avenue between
Tenth and Fourteenth streets. If this
data cannot be gotten from some city
agency, the board will itself make the
count and embody the figures in the
brief they will submit to the commits
sion Saturday. The figures sought by
the Board Of Trade would compare the
amount of both north and south and
east and west traffic at the intersections
of Pennsylvania avenue with Tenth,
Eleventh. Twelfth, Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets.
Yesterday Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Cott-
rell conferred with Senator Henry w.
Reyes of New Hampshire, chairman of
the Senate public buildings committee;
Col u. S. Grant, Sd. director of the
ONCE of Public Buildings and Public
Parks, and Horace w. Peaslee, chair
man of the National Institute of Archi-
tects' committee on the, development
of the National Capital. All three men
expressed themselves as extremely In
terested in the situation and asked to
be kept appraised of developments.
Congestion Would Result.
The boards fight against the cutting
of of Thirteenth street at Pennsyl-
vania avenue began at recent meet
ing of the board of directors, when Mr..
Graham told OF the congestion which
it is alleged would result. Then it was
thought that the street would be block
ed merely by a colonnade between two
buildings, but since it has been found
that a solid line of buildings would
stretch from Twelfth to Fourteenth
street, 1t is said.
The contention Of the Board of Trade
is that $4,000 Government employees
would be thrown into q small area by
the triangle development and that no
adequate provision has been made for
their entry and exit from this area,
It is pointed out that Thirteenth street
would be closed, Twelfth street would
be narrow, Eleventh street Is now cut
of at G street and Eighth street will
be blocked at Pennsylvania avenue.
One of the points in the boards ar
gument concerning Thirteenth street Is
that large sum of money has recently
been expended in widening it and max
ing 1t one of the city's main arteries of
traffic, and that to block 1t at Penn
sylvania avenue would make this ex-
penditure nothing but waste They
also call attention to the proposal to
make of B street one Of the principal
carriers Of crosS-town trafflc and say
that Thirteenth street should connect
with this highway.