Evening star., 1934-09-12
CITIZENS OPPOSE
CHANGES IN BUS
AND CAR ROUTES
BurIeith- Trinidad Line Fa.
vored as 1t Is at Hear
ing.
p STREET TRACKS
ARE GIVEN SUPPORT
Conduit Road Representative
Asks Retention Of Potomac
Heights Bus Service.

to dDanoOulnS StIccI SaA Vi oSNo oAA
street west of Dupont Circle were the
sentiments most strongly expressed
by citizens association representa-
tiyes at the hearing on street car re-
routing before the Public Utilities
Commission today.
The first witness Of day wnlcn
is to be given over entirely to hearing
spokesmen for citizen groups was
Frank T. Shell of the Conduit Road
Citizens Association. He asked Ior
retention of the Potomac Heights bus
line bec,. .se it serves the Western
High and Gordon Junior High
schools. If the people OF his TERRI
tory had to rely on street car service,
he said. the school children would
have 10 walk nearly 10 blocks on the
average In getting to school. He
said the street car service was very
bad. cars frequently jumping the
tracks.
Needed by Pupils.
Mrs. @. p. Oakley of the Francis
Scott Key Parent-Teacher Associa-
finn and Mrs, J. L. Lyddane also
asked that the busses be kept to get
the children to school.
Milo II. Brinkley Of the George
town Citizens Association opposed
removal of the street car tracks on
p street west Of Dupont Circle, unless
the abandoned street car service Is
to be replaced by bus service at
least as good or better than the
street car service. He asked develop
ment of Prospect street so as TO run
it into M street, thus making new
intersection to relieve the heavily
burdened intersection at Wisconsin
avenue and M street.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan OF the
Georgetown Progressive Citizens AS
sociation likewise opposed removal OF
the p street tracks. She also objected
70 any alteration In the line Of the
Burleith- Trinidad bus line. There LIS
one proposal before the commission to
take this line down TO Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue in
stead of allowing it to travel through
the center Of the city and out to Trim
idad as at present. She suggested re-
rnoyal Of the plow pits in Wisconsin
avenue north Of p street to some place
where it would offer less Of traf1c
hazard.
Join Demand for Line.
Harry Radcliffe and J. S. Gorrell Of
the Burleith Citizens Association also
Joined in the demand for keeping the
Burleith- Trinidad line as 1t Is.
j. G. Bridwell, q resident Of Kew
Gardens, opposed any removal Of
street car tracks such as contemplated
on p street. He said it is difficult
and sometimes impossible to get seat
on the Burleith- Trinidad bus line.
ST have seen Cities" he said,
"where bus lines have run street car
lines out Of business, but we will
never see that in Washington. I have
no confidence in bus transportation" I"
Myron r. Walker, president Of the
Glover Park Citizens Association,
presented q petition from 285 resi-
dents of Glover Park opposing any
change in the Burleith- Trinidad bus
line. He said this is the only mass
transportation agency readily avail
able to the persons in his area who
have no access to the Wisconsin ave-
nue.. street car line. One Of the prin-
cipal reasons for the founding of the
Glover Park Citizens Association was
to secure this bus service, he said. and
members of that association could
certainly not look with favor on any
proposition which would cost them
this line.
Bus Substitution Urged.
c. P. Carter, 1925 Lowell street,
urged abandonment Of the Wisconsin
avenue car line north of Massachusetts,
avenue and the substitution of bus
service He said traffic count showed
that as many as 1000 vehicles an hour
pass Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues and that this heavy flow will
move more rapidly If the car line Is
eliminated.
Edwin S. Hege Of the Chevy Chase
Citizens Association voiced strenuous
objection to proposal to abolish the
de luxe bus service to Chevy Chase
and urged the speeding up of the
present rail service. He also sug-
gested transportation service for pupils
who attend the Alice Deal Junior High
School and outlined several prefer
ential routes" from Chevy Chase to
the shopping section and for domestic
servants in that section who live east
Of Seventh street.
Hege's protest against abolition Of
the de luxe bus line was supported
by Fred A. Emery, a resident oi
Chevy Chase. He also protested
against a plan to provide bus service
for the area north Of Chevy Chase
Circle, which he declared would skip
the District part of Chevy Chase.
Cross-Town Bus.
A cross-town bus line from Chevy
Chase to Fourteenth street and Park
road and another line to Connect.
cut avenue and Mckinley street that
would serve the Alice Deal Junior
High School and the new Woodrow
Wilson Senior High School was urged
by John A. Bresnahan, president oi
the North Cleveland Park Citizens
Association.
Mrs. @. w. Cooper, 534l Twenty
eighth street, urged transportation oi
some form for the area east Of Con-
necticut avenue to Rock Greek.
Tunnel Again Urged.
At yesterday afternoons hearing
Harland Bartholomew, consultant tc
the National Capital Park and Plan.
ming Commission. once more urged the
construction Of a tunnel under the
Ellipse In the line of e street to solve
the problem of securing a through
East-West highway for mass trans.
portation serving the Triangle area
Estimating its cost roughly al
81 1,0Do. .o00. Mr.. Bartholomew said thi,
was . burden which the Federal Gov