Evening star., 1934-06-10
BOARD TO DISCUSS
TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
Enuineer Will Review Earlier
Report on Transit A.
fairs Here.

Transit, traffic and general trans
por:ation problems and their relation
ship to the public buildings in the
downtown Triangle will be the prime
consideration of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. when
1t. assemblies tomorrow.
Harland Bartholomew. prominent
St. Louis engineer, who has been the
consultant to the commission since its
Inauguration in 1926. has been asked
to come to Washington for tomorrow's
meeting and review his earlier reports
in the light of current conditions. In
1926, he submitted a general state
ment of principles that should be fol-
lowed in the development of Wash
ington and in 1927 he laid before the
commission his preliminary transit re-
port. This he has been asked to re-
view tomorrow and talk over with the
Public Utilities Commission and tran
sit officials here. These groups have
been furnished recently with q reprint
of the report.
Building Report.
The commission will hear a report
on desirable standards OF building
mass, height and occupancy in re-
lationship to trafflc by its director of
planning, John Nolen. jr.. so that the
organization may study the Triangle,
as a guide to future Federal expansion
here The commission wants to know
what the height of buildings should
be, the number of people they should
contain and the consequent trafflc
effect. This is in the nature of q
research report. Mr.. Nolen explained
yesterday, and will not be made public
at this time.
Restriction of parking in West Po-
tomac Park. along Constitution ave-
nue., in The Mall and the Washington
Monument grounds will form the sub
ject of a discussion by C. Marshall
Finnan. superintendent Of the Ma
tional Capital Parks. He will present
maps showing just exactly what au-
thorities of the National Park Service
are proposing to do in the way of
cutting down the parking facilities
now used all day by Government
workers in the vicinity of the Navy
Munitions, Public Health Service. De-
partment of Commerce, Bureau of In
ternal Revenue and other Govern
ment structures. The first part OF
this program-banning parking on
the roads leading directly to the Lin
coin Memorial-1as already begun
by the United States Park Police
under Mr.. F1nnan's direction.
Electric Railroad.
Electrification plans of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad in the District ane
nearby Virginia will be discussed BY
the commission. which plans to make
a flrst-hand inspection of the typica
equipment that has been set in place
on the viaduct across East Potomac
Park and Sixth street southwest. Thi.
Will give the commission a view oi
the work as it will look, when com.
pleted Mr.. Nolen explained that {
tapered pole has been designed fol
Potomac Park, similar to that uset
by the Pennsylvania Railroad in Phil.
adelphia on the Schuylkin River EN-.
bankment, near the West Philadelphia
station The commission win also con.
slider the carriers proposal for Vir,
ginia, from the crossing of the Poto.
mac River to Potomac yards. anc
the relationship of the overhead wire.
to the airport.
The Mall lighting program will b.
up for final approval by the commits.
sion. The preliminary report on thu
proposed use Of Theodore Roosevelt
Island, as outlined by Frederick Law
Olmsted, Brookline, Mass. Landscape
architect, who is consultant to the
Roosevelt Memorial Association, will
be laid before the commission. Asso.
ciated with Mr.. Olmsted in thi.
plan is John Russell Pope, notec
New York architect. The asso.