Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
Scheme Now Before Utilities
Body Aims to Speed Up
Trolley Service.
SUBURBS WOULD Benefit
BY IMPROVED SCHEDULES
Plan Effective September Is If
Commission Sanctions
Change.
The Washington Railway & Electric

The Washington Railway & Electric
Co. has drawn up a comprehensive plan
of rerouting on its major lines to pro-
vide improved car service principally
for the rapidly developing sections OF
the District and nearby Maryland, 1t
was announced yesterday at the Public
Utilities Commission.
Although the new routing scheme
had been in contemplation by the COM
pany for several months-long before
the commission threatened to bring
about a unified operation Of the car
lines by a general rerouting and the
Joint use of trackS-the announcement
that 1t was formally before the COM
mission for approval, came IS pre-
Jude to the public hearings on the APP
plicat ton Of the local street car systems
for higher fare which open tomorrow
in the District Building.
r Street Area Affected.
The plan affects all cars passing
through Connecticut avenue and F
street, where the Roadway would be in
creased and more uniform than at
present. It involves the Mount Pleas
ant, Georgetown, Thirteenth and D
streets northeast, Lincoln Park, Wis
conSin avenue and Cabin John lines OF
the company.
Increased service under the new rout-
ing would be provided for Friendship
Heights, Alta Vista and other commune
ties on the Wisconsin avenue line:
Mount Washington and other points on
the Cabin John line and the sections
served by the Mount Pleasant and Thin
tenth and D street lines.
William F. Ham, president Of the
company, said the scheme could be put
into effect about September Is. He
pointed out that It's chief feature Is the
coordination of car service in the busi-
ness section between Dupont Circle and
Fifth and F streets in sharp contrast
to the present independence" of the
lines serving this area.
While the communities served by tn
Wisconsin avenue line will get the
greatest improvement in service under
the rerouting scheme. 1t also will pro-
vide better service to the northeast sec
ton in the territory adjacent to the
Thirteenth and D streets line, and pro-
duce at the same time direct service
from Mount Pleasant 10 the Court
House, as well as quicker route to
the Capitol, Library and Senate and
House once Building.
Better Service Possible.
Friendship Heights would get the
benefit of two more cars an hour, one
Of which would start at Alta Vista, thus
giving the latter community an addi-
tional car an hour. The cars from
Friendship Heights would then operate
on 10-minute instead of 15-minute
Roadway as at present. Alta Vista cars
would have q Commute instead Of Q
two stations would have Rockville car
every hour in the non-rush periods and
every half hour in the rush periods.
No change in the number OF cars per
hour is planned on the Cabin John line,
although the plan calls for change in
schedule which will give the cars from
Mount Washington a 10 and 20 minute
Roadway instead of a l5-minute head
way as at present. The Cabin John
cars would ntinue to run on so
minute heac"ay.
Likewise on the Georgetown line the
present schedule will be revised to give
a straight 10-minute headway, although
two cars less would be operated every
hour Three additional cars an hour
would be put on the Mount Pleasant
line, however, providing three-minute
Roadway.
Cars on the Thirteenth and D street
line would operate on a straight 81
minute Roadway instead of 8 minutes as
under the existing schedule. Lincoln
Park cars would continue to operate on
their present 5-minute Roadway. Six
Of these cars come from Georgetown
every hour and another six from Mount
Pleasant via the court house.
The change would decrease the num-
Der Of cars now operating to First and
e streets southeast, putting them on q
straight 10-minute Roadway instead Of
an Slz-minute Roadway under the ex-
isting schedule. With the change in
routes, First and e streets southeast
would become the eastern terminus OF
the Tenleytown lines. The First and
streets terminus is now one leg Of the
Mount Pleasant line.