Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-22
ALEXANDRIA LINES
FARES INCREASED
Straight Cash Rate OF IS
Cents to Washington on
Railroad and Bus.
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erecfal Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, va, March "a
Schedule of proposed changes in the
fares on the electric railway and the
Alexandria, Bancroft g. Washington
bus line operating between this city and
washington, which have been filed by
r. L. MAY, proprietor of the two lines,
and which will be subject to public
hearing before the commerce commits
sions, show increases for both interstate
and interstate travel.
Fares of the two lines will be idenu-
cal. No communication or round-trip
tickets will be sold for either line, with
the exception Of a school ticket and all
fares will be collected in fare box IN
cash.
Bus Rates Remain.
Bus schedules will not be changed
and no great changes are contemplated
in the street car schedules, although
some slight adjustments may be found
necessary. These, however, will depend
entirely on the amount of travel on
the cars.
The new schedules, which will be
published March "a and March 81, as
required by law, and which will be
given a public hearing before the State
Corporation Commission at Richmond,
Va, April 8, and before the Interstate
Commerce Commission in Washington
at an early date, will provide for a 10
cent fiat cash fare between Fairfax
street here and all intermediate stops
to and including the south end of
Highway Bridge, and a l5-cent cash
fare between Fairfax street and all
stops to Washington avenue, Braddock,
to Washington.
This will mean that the fare from
this city to Washington on either the
car or bus line will be Is cents straight,
and that no smaller fare than 10 cents
will be collected for transportation be-
tween any points.
This information, which is given out
by r. l.. May, owner of the two lines,
will mean a decrease from 20 cents to
Is cents in the present one-way fare
to and from Washington. but an in
crease of cents over the 25-cent round
trip fare now available on both lines
between this city and the Capital.
Increase from to 10 cents will also
result in the present minimum fares on
the lines. Thus all transportation for
any distance will carry minimum fare
of 10 cents. and this Decent fare VIII
also be in force for any trips entirely
within the corporation limits of Alex
andria.
NECCubS ROuShS Ne ne
May, who has owned and operated
the A., B. g. w. Rapid Transit Co. in
this section for some years, recently
purchased the stock of the Mount Yer
non, Alexandria 81 Washington Rail
way Co., and officially took over the
control Of the electric line March 10.
Previous to this action the sale of the
road to May was given the approval
of the local city council, and that body
recognized at that time that certain
changes in the fares would be neces-
sary.
The line went in the hands Of re.
ceivers two years ago, and recently had
only been able to meet operating ex-
penses by the sale of various pieces
of property which were practically ex-
hausted when the road was sold to May.
The bus line owner was faced with all
outlay of 100000 in new bus equip
nnent, most of which would lie idle ex-
cept during peak hours, and necessary
increase of fares in any event, and this
was the deciding factor in his purchase
Of the car line.
May stated that the names Of the
two lines would be kept as they are at
this time, but that he had in mind
combining both at some future date
under the name of the A., B. & w.
Transit Co.
Increase or Cut in Service.
Discussing the possibility Of there
being protest from citizens concerning
the fare increases, May said that If
people can't ride at the new rates 1t
viii mean a curtailment of service, and
that If enough money was not taken in
TO operate the railroad 1t would have to
be discontinued. He also recited the
fact that up to two years ago the street
car fare was 20 cents round trip
or % cents one way to Washington and
that the original bus fares were 20 cents
each way or IS cents a round trip.
School tickets, which are now sold by
the bus line at a rate of seven and
one-half cents each way, or card OF
80 trips for S2.25, will be the only COM
mutation ticket to remain, and a GER
ttficate from the school will have to be
presented TO purchase them. May also
mum age limit on persons to which this
ticket would be sold These tickets
would be purchasable at the Alexandra
bus terminal only, as both the local
and Washington ticket ofiices are being
abandoned.
May also said that statements that
he was going TO purchase a sec; GOO
nainal of the two lines, at Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, was tneor-
rect, but that he was obtaining sign
to cost 81 800, which would bear the
statement Union Bus Terminal"
Just what improvements will be made
in the trackage and that portion OF
the streets in Virginia and Washington
controlled by the railway could not be
stated by May at this time, but they
wSuld not be extensive, he said. He
plans, however, to have the many holes
In the highway between Water street
and Highway Bridge In Washington
repaired, which work 10 done by the
nkrfrint Al Columbia hut for which the