Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
PLANNERS TO GET
REPORTS READY ON
CARS IN TRIANGLE
Committee Appointed to Con-
fer With Treasury Official
and Commissioners.
DATA TO BE GIVEN
STUDY FOR CORRELATION
Prospect of $4,000 More People to
Handle in Area Points Need
of Prompt Steps.

Convinced that something must be
done Immediately to whip into shape a
proper program for street car routing
In the triangle area and to make pro-
vision for parking automobiles OF the
Government employees who VIII De en-
ployed in the great public buildings now
under construction. the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission mas
,,,oved to correlate the various reports
that have been submitted on the SUP
ject. .,..,,,r Of
rrederic A Delano, the commission S
chairman, and Col. William b. Laoue,
Encineer Commissioner of the District,
a member of the commission, II was
learned TODAY. was named at the COM
missions meeting Saturday 10 confer
with the supervising archltect OF Cne
Treasury and the District Commission
ers. 1t is expected that the supervising
erchitect will name two members and
that the District Commissioners VIII oo
likewise These six men, with Lieut.. Col.
n. s. Grant, Sd, the commissions VICE
chairman and executive of1cer, VIII
confer on the various reports tnaC nave
been submitted on the problem 10 see
if thew cannot be co-ordinateo ana
the various conflicting viewpoints De
brought into harmony.
Reuort Sent Commission.
sybe latest report on the subject was
that of the Board of Architectural Con-
suitants. a group of experts, who are
assistinp Secretary Mellon In the de-
veIonrnent of the Federal buildings pro-
oraYn Secretary Mellon recently Tor
warded this report to the commission,
but It has never been made pubic. Inc
commission has deemed 1t aovisanie 70
call a conference on the whole suplect
and seek to have something concrete
done Immediately.
The area where Polls Theater STANDS
will shortly become a park at the Slde
of the new Department OF commerce
Ruildinp. now under construction on B
Street. between Fourteenth. ana FIJI
teenth streets. This raises queStlon
with reference to the location OF the
street car tracks. Consideration n HIss
been given to the suggestion that the
street car tracks be taken on PennSyl-
yania avenue all together. plan mas
been put forward to have subway
SvStefn constructed for part OF the
downtown area, but some of the engl-
neers feel that the time is not ripe Tor
subway development in Washington.
More People in Prospect.
some $4,000 more people will be
thrown into the triangle when the Fed
eral buildings program is completed,
with a resultant complication In the
franc situation. A proposal was put
FORWARD some time ago for constructing
the new Government buildings so as
to permit of parking cars In the nase-
rnents of the buildings, but this was
not followed out in the new Internal
Revenue Building, now under construc-
ton back of the Post ONCE Depart
rnent. and the new Department OF Com
Inerce Building. Other new Govern
ment buildings are to be started In the
near future.
for underground parking in the tri-
angle area has not been abandoned.
The commission hopes to reach salts
factory solution of the perplexing tran
sit and parking problem at an early
meeting.