Evening star., 1934-08-09
.REROUTING PLAN
.L|M|TSPARK|NG ON.
THROUGH STREETS.
Public Utilities Group Makes
Public First Section of
D. BeeIer Report. M
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INTER- COMPANY BUS
ARRANGEMENT URGED
Car Tracks on Fifteenth Street,
New York Avenue to H
Favored.
The Public Utilities Commission TO-

The Public Utilities Commission TO-
day made public the first Of three
sections of the John A. Beeler report
on rerouting of the mass transporta-
ton system, synopsis Of which was
published Tuesday.
Among the highlights of this docu-
ment are:
A suggestion that parking be elm
mated on all boulevards and arterial
highways, at least during rush hours.
A suggestion that busses operating
to suburban Virginia enter into some
sort of intercompany arrangement
with the local busses, so that the vir-
ginia buses could do an intra-Dis-
trict business in the rush hours and
help out the overloaded local busses.
BeeIer Track Preference.
The report makes 1t clear that of
two solutions offered for getting nd
Of the four sets of tracks on two con-
gested downtown blocks, Beeler pre-
fers building tracks In Fifteenth street
between New York avenue and H
street. The other solution, that Of
building tracks in II street from Four
teenth to Thirteenth and In Thir-
teenth from H to F streets, is regard
ed as less practicable.
It discards as impracticable and
two expensive a suggestion Of building
a subway under the Ellipse or a sur
face line across the Ellipse In the line
Of e street.
1t lists several horrible examples"
of bad routing now in existence and
solution of these and other defects OF
the present system Of routing.
The commission intends to make the
second section of the report public
tomorrow and the third and final Sec
ton on Saturday. Next Wednesday
there win be q public hearing at
which this report win be spread on
the record, to be followed by plans or
criticisms Of the Capital Transit Co.,
and q plan from the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Three Separate Plans.
The Beeler report viii contain three
separate plans for rerouting. These
have already been outlined in the
synopsis printed Tuesday. Today's
document. however, gives clearer de-
scriptions Of two Of the projects than
have appeared. They are reproduced
here in full:
Changing the track layout in the
Potomac Park area to facilitate all
traffic movements:
Cars, busses and private vehicles
find great difficulty in getting into
and out of this area during rush pc
RODS.
Conditions here have been observed
carefully and repeatedly. 1t Is per-
haps the most serious traffic prob
lem in the city for the few minutes
daily that it exists and Is recognized
as such by the transit companies and
the Traffic Bureau. Numerous en-
deavors have been made to improve
the situation and with some degree
of success. The street cars now en-
counter long delays on F street and
on Seventeenth street, between F
street and Pennsylvania avenue. We
believe that if Eighteenth street Is
made a northbound street and Nine
teenth street a southbound street, at
least during the rush periods, and
the car tracks on Eighteenth street
are extended north to Pennsylvania
avenue, instead of east on F street
and north on Seventeenth street, bet
ter results would follow for all.
This would leave Seventeenth street,
q wide street. free for vehicle traf-
fic all the way from Constitution ave-
nue. to Pennsylvania avenue. 1t would
necessitate the installation Of a left
hand track connection at Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue Tor
the Connecticut avenue cars. While
this would be substituting a left
hand turn for what Is now a straight
movement, the turn would apply to
the Connecticut avenue cars only, q
relatively small proportion Of all Of
the Potomac Park cars.
Would BE on Avenue.
All other cars now making a right
hand turn at Seventeenth street and
Pennsyivania avenue would be on
Pennsylvania avenue at this inter-
section. With such q track layout,
If found necessary, it would be pos
sible TO reserve Nineteenth street
southbound for about 80 minutes In
the morning and Eighteenth street
northbound for a similar period In
the afternoon for street cars only, he
tween virginia avenue and Pennsyl-
vania avenue In connection with this
change we recommend q connecting
curve at Nineteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue and an outside con-
Meeting curve at Eighteenth street and
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