Evening star., 1932-07-13
BUS LINES WARNED
'OF APPROACHING
CURB-L0AD|NG BAN
0ffstreet Terminals Must Be
Established by First of
Next Month.
TWO TENTATIVE PLANS
MADE BY COMPANIES
Lower Floors of Annapolis Hotel
and Masonic Temple May Be
Made Into Stations.

Operators of interstate bus lines
serving downtown Washington were
notified today by the Public Utilities
Commission that they must provide off,
street terminals by August /, as ordered
or face prosecution by the commission
The commission, last August, issued
an order to the interstate or Glass A
bus companies that after August l OF
this year they would be prohibited from
loading or diScharging passengers from
terminals making use of the public
streets in the congested downtown area
Several months ago the companies
were notified that July Is was the
deadline for the filing Of replies to
this order showing what arrangements
they proposed for the establishment OF
new terminals.
Would o. X. Rerouting.
Several proposals have been presented
to the commission in the meantime
and the utilities body has decided II
would approve rerouting Of bus lines
necessary for the provision of one or
two of the proposed terminals, but as
yet no official report has been made OF
final completion OF plans for eStab-
lishment of new of street terminals
it was said today by the commission
office.
Meanwhile, 1t is reported at least two
of the interstate bus concerns are en-
deavoring to complete arrangements
for the new terminals.
The letter of the commission, posted
Yesterday, placed the interstate bus con-
Germs on notice that unless arrange
ments fer the new terminals were com
pleted by August l they faced prosecu-
ton by the commission for failure to
comply with its order.
First Order Compiled With.
The move of the Public Utilities Com
mission to eliminate the street terminals
of the interstate bus companies from
the downtown area was started after
lengthy consideration of the matter.
The order was in two parts. 1t was
ordered first that after April l Of this
wear no bus terminals Of the interstate
lines. either off or on the public streets
would be permitted within the area
bounded by Seventh and Fifteenth
streets, New York avenue and H street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
This was complied with by reloca-
ton of the terminals to temporary loca-
tions outside this first parking zone.
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After August l, however, the COM
mission ordered that only off-street
terminals would be permitted within
the second parking area, in which the
interstate terminals now are located.
The Co-ordinating Traffic Committee
of the District government will meet
tomorrow to consider proposed new
routes of the bus lines to and from
the new terminals which have been
suggested. If these lines are approved
the routes then will go before the joint
board, composed of members OF the
Board of District Commissioners ana
the Public Utilities Commission.
Two proposed new terminals have
been suggested informally to the COM
mission, but to date final arrangements
have not been reported to that body.
One calls for conversion of the first
floor of the Annapolis Hotel for a
terminal. The other concerns pro-
posal to convert the lower portion of
the Masonic Temple at Thirteenth
street and New York avenue into a
terminal for second bus company.