Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
bus SUBSTITUTION
FOR F ANDG STREET
CAR SERVICE ASKED
Capital Traction Co. Seeks
to Change Owl SyS-
tenn Here.
TAK0MA PARK TRACK
IMPROVEMENTS URGED
New Routes Are Proposed for
Present Schedules in Poto-
mac Park Loop.

The Capital Traction Co. yesterday
asked permission of the Public Utilities
| Commission to substitute bus for car
! service on F and @ streets west of
! Seventeenth street, the so-called Poto-
| mac Park Loop, serving George Wash
| ington University and Washington s
| West End.
The reason given is to offer more
| flexible" service. The service offered
| is a 10-minute Roadway during nom
rush and q 5-minute rush hour
| schedule
All owl service now being given by
street cars anywhere on the company's
system is also to be abandoned and
bus substituted. The company also
| asked for permission to improve its
Takoma Park car service by track
| changes.
Track Removal Asked.
Contemplated changes would render
necessary removal of the track on Sew
enteenth street between Pennsylvania
avenue and G. street; the track on G
street from Seventeenth to Twenty
sixth streets; on Twenty-f1fth street
from G street to Pennsylvania avenue;
Twenty-sixth street between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and F street, and on F
street between Twenty-sixth and Nine
tenth streets.
The terminus of the Chevy Chase
line of cars would be changed from
Twenty-sixth and G streets, as now,
to Potomac Park. The cars would turn
south out OF Pennsylvania avenue at
Nineteenth street, go down Nineteenth
street, Virginia avenue, Eighteenth, F
and Seventeenth streets to connect
with Pennsylvania avenue again at
Seventeenth street.
Other Changes Sought.
Several other and less sweeping
changes IN service are sought. The
company wants to discontinue the pres
ent routing of cars during the midday
non-rush period between Navy Yard and
Potomac Park, and feed the Potomac
Park section with cars operating from
Chevy Chase and Kensington. These
cars would also serve as substitutes for
the bus line now operated nights, Sun
days and holidays to Potomac Park, dis
continuance of which is asked. 1t
wants to bring the Takoma Park cars
as far east as the Navy Yard, instead
Of stopping at Peace Monument.
Proposed Bus Routes.
Bus routes to be set up to take care
of the service lost by the removal of the
Potomac Park loop tracks are as fol-
lows: Beginning at Twenty-sixth and
F streets, east on F to Twenty fourth
street, south on Twenty-fourth to E,
east on Z to Twenty-second north on
TWenty-second to +, east on F to Seven
teenth street, south on Seventeenth,
turning east into State place and con-
tinuing east on the south side of the
White House Grounds to Fifteenth and
E streets, north on Fifteenth street to
New York avenue, northeast on New
York avenue to H street, east on H
street to Sixth street, north on Sixth to
X street, east on X street to Fifth
street northeast, north on Fifth street
northeast to the new market located on
the north side OF Florida avenue at
Fifth street northeast. Returning via
the same route to the intersection of
Fifteenth street and New York and
pennsylvania avenues, at the north side
OF the Treasury, thence west on Penn
sylvania avenue to Seventeenth street,
south on Seventeenth to G street, west
on @ street to Virginia avenue, north
west on Virginia avenue to New Hamp-
shire avenue, southwest on New Hamp-
shire avenue to Twenty-sixth and F
streets, the point of beginning.
Meet Service Requests.
This route, the company said, would
meet requests that it had received for
service TO the new market on Florida
avenue between Fourth and Sixth
streets northeast, and will also serve
the Center Market now located at Fifth
and x streets. 1T should meet not only
the needs for transportation facilities
TO these markets, but should also pro-
vide new and convenient cross-toWn
routing between rather densely popu-
lated sections in the northeast and
northwest, and the center of the city,"
the application stated
The fare sought is the same as on
the cars, with the issuance of free trans
ferS to connecting street cars on pay
ment OF l0-cent cash fare, or 2-cent
transfers on payment of token
special regulations, however, are
sought TO provide for free transfers to
all passengers from eastbound buses to
southbound Capital Traction Co. street
cars at Nineteenth and streets, and to
passengers paying cash or token fare
on eastbound buses, free transfers to in
tersecting Capital Traction Co. car lines
at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue or Fifteenth street and New
York avenue.
Free Transfers.
Free transfers will also be issued from
Capital Traction Co. street cars to west
bound buses of this line at Fifteenth
tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
and Nineteenth and G streets. These
special regulations are sought in order
that trafhc in the area now served by
the F and @ street car line will not
be deprived of any existing privileges.
In addition, intercompany transfers
between this bus line and the street
cars of the Washington Railway g. Elec-
trio Co. at Fifteenth and G streets are
fNl1 hsa4
the same conditions as now prevail for
such transfers between street car
lines Of the Capital Traction Co. and
the Washington Railway g. Electric Co.
Park Line Plan.
AS for the improvements in the Ia
koma Park sector, the company's appli-
cation frankly admitted that complaints
as to the slowness of the service to
Takoma Park were justified. In order
TO effect the improvement, the company
asks to be allowed to construct addi-
tional track on Third street between
Peabody and Kennedy streets, and ex-
tending around Kennedy street to the
west approximately so feet, or sufficient
TO permit the installation of the neces-
sary switch between single and double
track before entering the curve at Third
street and Kennedy street. This addi-
tional track, when constructed, will
form an extension of the existing double
track on Third street between Peabody
and Sheridan streets.
This, the company said, will eliminate
the necessity for siding now located
at Third and Nicholson streets, and al
low the installation of siding on Ken
nedy street Immediately west Of Thir-
tenth street, permission for which is
asked. M