Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-27
ASK TRAFFIC AID
OF D. c. CITIZENS
Commissioners Request Pub
lie to Leave Autos at
Home March 3, a, 5.

! The District Commissioners yester-
! Gay called on the people of Washington
! to help lessen the traffic congestion dur
ing the period of the Inauguration by
leaving their machines at home on
/ March 3, and 5 and using other
means Of transportation for getting
downtown. The request was especially
directed to March 4.
! The city heads at the same time
called attention to the extended con-
gestion zone, inside OF which no park
ing except for taxicabs in proper hack
stands will be allowed, and to other
parking restrictions to be in force dur
ing the period
The statement. issued as mem
Orandum to the press from the Com
missioners. and signed by Mai Edwin
B. HesSe, superintendent Of police, fol-
lows:
The Commissioners invite the atten-
ton of the public to the creation OF a
temporary congested zone, effective from
II midnight March to u midnight
March +. which zone is bounded on the
north by the north curb of H street on
the south by the south curb Of B street,
on the west by the west curb of Seven
teenth street as far south as New York
avenue and on the east by the east curb
Of Sixth street from Missouri avenue to
Louisiana avenue, thence along the
south curb Of Louisiana avenue to Fifth
street, thence along the east curb of
Fifth street to its intersection with Fl
street.
Parking Prohibited.
within this zone parking is pro-
hibitcd during the entire "a hours eX-
cept as to roadWays Immediately con-
tiguous to the Center Market and as TO
taxicabs occupying established stands.
Parking also will be prohibited on:
M street northwest from its inter
section with Pennsylvania avenue to
Thirty-sixth street northwest.
On Pennsylvania avenue southeast
from the west end Of the Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge extending west to Second
street southeast.
ON B street from Second street
southeast to First street southwest, eX-
cept as to official cars connected with
the inaugural ceremonies.
ON East Capitol street from First
street to Second street.
On Maryland avenue from First
street east to Second street.
ON B street from its intersection
with Maryland avenue northeast west
to First street northeast.
ON First street from B street south
west to Indiana avenue northwest
"On Fourteenth street from Water
street north to Thomas Circle.
Nineteenth street from New York
avenue north to K street
pennsylvania avenue from Nine
teenth street west to Washington Circle.
e street northwest from Fourteenth
to Fifteenth street.
Area of Parade.
Parking will also be prohibited in the
area where the parade will form
namely, from East Capitol street south
to South Carolina avenue and from
Seventh street east to First street west.
Parking will also be prohibited on
Delaware avenue from Union Station
Plaza to the Capitol grounds and on
Massachusetts, avenue from the Union
Station Plaza to New Jersey avenue.
Parking will be prohibited on the
parade route and in the area one square
either side of said parade route.
The Commissioners feel that the
citizens of Washington will greatly aid
in preventing congestion if during the
period of March 3, and they will
leave their vehicles at home and utilize
some other means of transportation for
getting downtown.
This is particularly applicable as
concerns March 4"