Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
BUSES TO HANDLE
VIRGINIA TROLLEY
TRAVEL IN CITY
Old Terminal at Twelfth and
Avenue Passes Out of
Service Tonight.
|ARL INGTON JUNCTION
POINT OF TRANSFER
New Station at 1913 D Street, but
Motor Vehicles Are Not
to Gross Avenue.

eral building program, trolley service
from nearby Virginia will be supplanted
tomorrow morning by motor bus line
bringing the same passenger traffic into
the same downtown area on the same
time schedule used by the street cars.
The old terminal at Twelfth street
and PENNSYLVANIA avenue will be dis
continued tonight after the last cal
leaves at 1910 o'clock and the facilities
in the terminal will all be moved to the
new bus terminal at 1913 D street, to
be in readiness for business In the ne"
location tomorrow morning.
For the present, however, the ne"
bus line, which will bring passengers
from the transfer point at Arlington
Junction into Washington Will not be
allowed to stop at the new terminal al
1913 D street, but will follow route
past the old terminal along PennSyI-
vania avenue without crossing the
avenue. The new terminal, though
known as 1913 D street, is virtually
that same number on Pennsylvania
avenue, about block from the old
terminal.
Petition Not Acted On.
The regular bus line from Alexan-
dria, which has been operating Tor
some time, will run its buses TO the
new terminal, as it has been doing Tor
some time, but it was explained by r. l..
May, owner of both the Mount Vernon,
Alexandria g. Washington Railway and
the bus lines, the Public Utilities Com
mission has not yet acted upon the
petition of the company to run its new
shuttle line of buses from Arlington
Junction into the new terminal
Mr.. May said he hoped the present
route through the city for the new
buses from Arlington Junction would
be temporary. There have been some
indications from the commission, how
ever. that this line may not be allowed
to cross Pennsylvania avenue. Final
decision has not been made.
The new bus line will come into
Washington along Fourteenth street TO
Pennsylvania avenue, turn east on the
Avenue to Tenth street, south on Tenth
street to Constitution avenue. west to
Fourteenth and return to Arlington
Junction.
Passengers from two different trolley
lines will be affected-the Mount Yer
non, Alexandria g. Washington Railway
and the Arlington & Fairfax Railway
Co. These two lines will continue TO
operate TO Arlington Junction, where
passengers will transfer to the so-called
shuttle bus" There will be IS Of these
new buses placed into service.
Buses Through City.
The regular bus line of the Alex
andria, Bancroft and Washington Rapid
Transit Co. will continue to run its
buses through the city and up to the
new terminal. Its route is up Four
tenth street to Pennsylvania avenue,
east on Pennsylvania to Thirteenth,
north to street, east to Tenth street,
south to D street, west to the ter
minal at No. 1913, Leaving the ter
minal, these Alexandria buses will pro-
coed westward along Pennsylvania ave-
nue., and out Fourteenth street
The last car over the trolley line
will leave the old terminal at 1910
o'clock tomorrow morning, in charge of
the two employees oldest in point of
service. The motorman will be Well
ington Crockett, now an inspector, who
is the oldest man on the road in point
of service. He helped build the rail-
road and served as water boy when the
tracks were laid in 1896. The conduc-
tor will be J. William Mason, who is
the next In line of seniority. He has
been connected with the railway for
27 years.
Abandonment of the line into Wash
ington will not bring about the dis
charge of any of the motormen or
conductors, according to Mr.. May.
Five of them will be transferred from
street cars to buses.
Abandonment of the line into Wash
to- ~ Lat cviYr kan Ay-1l TNNH
eminent free hand to proceed with
the building program in the triangle.
First of Tracks to Go.
The first part of the old tracks to
be cut out will be on Thirteen-and-a-
half street, where the line crosses d.
rectly over the site of the new De-
partment of Labor Building. Excava-
ton has been completed on either side
of the street, leaving the street and
tracks high in the air. Tomorrow
morning, it is expected by Neal A.
Melick, United States Government con-
struction engineer, steam shovels will
begin to bite into this piece of ground
and tear out the earth and rails.
The old terminal at Twelfth and
Pennsylvania avenue will be torn down
Immediately.
Tracks belonging TO the Mount YER
non road along Fourteenth street will
be taken over by the Washington Rail-
way Co., but the stretch of tracks from
Water street to north end of Highway
Bridge will be taken up early next
Spring as part of the street improve
ment program there.
1t is expected tracks will be left on
the Highway Bridge itself, as the tracks
were constructed as an integral part
of the bridge, and are flush with the
paving which was recently laid.
Virginia Tracks Remain.
Tracks in Virginia will be left where
they are for the present, Mr. May said,
but later on the right Of way between
the south end of the bridge and Ar
lington Junction may be paved to pro-
vide a private road for the bus traf-
fic of the A. B. g. w. Co.
Not only will the old terminal Of the
railway move from Twelfth and Penn
sylyania to its new location, but
the whole Institution, known as the
United Bus Terminal, will move also
to the same new station. Bus lines,
in addition to the one from Alexan-
dria, which will stop there, include the
GREYHOUND, Short Lines, United Utili-
ties, Washington Rapid Transit Balti-
more Line, Washington-Luray Line,
washington, Marlboro and Annapolis,
Arnold Leesburg Line and Virginia
Stage Line,