Evening star., 1934-09-08
BURROUGHS GROUP.
STUDIES CAR PLAN
Citizens Pass on Beeler
Report for Revamping
Transit System.

The Beeler report on rerouting
street cars was considered last night
by the Burroughs Citizens Associa-
tion at its first meeting of the season,
held at the twelfth precinct; Seven
teenth street and Rhode Island avenue
northeast. Several items were con-
sidered separately and action taken.
The association opposed elimination
of street car tracks from North Capt.
tol street and New York avenue to
Fifth and G streets. 1t favored, how
ever, sending express buses OF the
Brookland line down Sixth street to
the Mall.
The Burroughs group also favored
extension of the Catholic University
bus line to Brookland This line ends
near the university at Seventh street
northeast, and the citizens believe
1t should be continued to Twelfth
street northeast and connect with the
Brookland line buses there.
Congested Corner Discussed.
It was suggested tfe the Beeler
report should haNs% Included a plan
for elimination of the congestion at
First and Florida avenue northeast,
but motion to this effect was de-
feated. No action was taken on other
items.
Kenneth P. Armstrong introduced
a resolution which was approved
unanimously asking for the opening
of Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth
streets northeast from Bunker Hill
road to Eastern avenue, which forms
the D. c. line in that section.
In another resolution. offered by
Armstrong, Congress was asked to ap-
propriate funds to complete the pur-
chase of land just north Of Bunker
Hill road northeast, near Twenty
fourth street, to permit completion Of
the Barnard Park there. Portions Of
this land already are owned by the
District, the resolution said, having
been acquired by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission under
provisions of the Capper- -Cramton
act. Certain tracts still must be
bought up, it was pointed out. The
resolution was passed.
To Ask School Addition.
The association voted to have q
representative at hearings by the Dis
trict Commissioners on the 1896 bud
get for the District, and clothe him
with authority to recommend appro-
priations for a new wing to the Taft
Junior High School. No estimate was
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pointed representative.
A recommendation from the North
east Conference of Citizens Associa-
tions was approved, and in the future
matters affecting the whole of North
east Washington will be considered at
q meeting of representatives from all
citizens associations in that section.
The Northeast Conference of Citizens
Associations, which made the recon-
mendation, is an organization COM
posed of representatives of the Brook
land, Dahlgren Terrace, Burroughs
and Michigan Park Citizens Associa-
tions.
Announcement was made that nom
nation and election Of officers will be
held at the October meeting, the first
FRIDAY OF LnaL montn.
Parking Ban Sought.
Another resolution adopted recon-
mended the elimination of parking on
Monroe street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets northeast from 8
to 9 am. and from to pm.
In line with this was another
recommendation by the association
that the restrictions on parking dur
ing rush hours be applied to CONNER
cial vehicles as well as private ones.
Announcement was made by the
Legislative Committee that it would
meet soon with the idea of recon-
mending another "open meeting" of
the association for a discussion Of
the Burroughs plan Of government
for the District.
Raymond L. Gilbert, president,
presided at the meeting.