Evening star., 1934-03-05
TRACTION SERVICE
PROTESTS HEARD
Utilities Body Listens to
Complaints, Then Considers
Transfer Rate Charges.

Seven persons, representing CIVIC
and other organizations, made COM
plants against street car service at
a public hearing called by the Public
Utilities Commission on the subject
today. The hearing then moved on
to a consideration of the rates OF
transfer charged among buSses and
between street cars. but was expected
to return to the question of COM
plants against service later. About
so persons were present as the hear
ing opened. Several of them were in
uniforms of conductors and motor
men, ssse !. 81
y william G. Henderson,, representing
the North Capitol Citizens Associa-
tion, said that the people in his ter
ritory complained Of poor service on
the North Capitol street. lie Droit Park
and Rhode Island avenue street car
lines.
Reports Cars Bunched.
The cars were punched, he said, and
the interval between punches was too
long. For years his association has
protested against the use of one-man
cars, he said. Mr.. Henderson pointed
out that on the North Capitol and
LIE Droit Park lines the one-man cars
are slow because the conductor motor
man waits until all fares are paid be-
fore he starts his car. He urged that
the LIE Droit Park line be not aban-
doned. but that bus service be sub
stituted, if necessary. 1t is a mis-
take, he said, to terminate this line
at Fifteenth and G streets. 1t should
be looped at its downtown terminal
into some other street car system.
He said there was very little COM
plant against the Rhode Island ave
nue. bus line, but many complaints
against the street car service. The
people had hoped that the merger
would eliminate those complaints,
which have been of long standing.
Favors Parking Limitation.
J. R. Manning. representing the
Chevy Chase Citizens Association,
said he recognized that the street car
system here worked under hardships
peculiar to Washington, the great
density of automobile traffic and the
lack of police cooperation in keeping
the tracks clear. He personally ia
vored drastic limitation of downtown
parking.
He said the street car equipment
was old md slow. and suggested at
taching trailers to outbound cars and
some system by which outbound cars
might wait at Fourteenth and U
streets to pick up passengers bound
for Chevy Chase.
He asked the commission to plan
carefully for the transportation needs
of the 35 900 to 10000 people who are
soon to be concentrated in the Penn
sylvania avenue triangle of Govern
ment buildings.
Ellis R. King, president of the Con-
duit Road Citizens Association. COM
planned that the Potomac Heights
cars are started late from the East
Capitol street barns and that fire.
quently their destination signs are
changed at Seventeenth and H streets.
He asked for express service for this
territory.
Asks Subway Transfer Points.
w. E. Hoffheins. representing the
d
Unions, asked for better service gen.
orally. for the construction of subway
transfer points at Fourteenth and U
streets and Fifteenth street and New
York avenue, shelters for other trans
fer points and provision for comfort
stations at the underground transfer
points.
Walter Davidson of the Wesley
Heights Community Club praised the
excellence of the bus service in his
community. but asked for more serv-
ice in the rush hours. He asked for
express service and for continual ton
of the route down Seventeenth street
to Pennsylvania avenue.
Urge Midnight Service.
w. R. Giles, of the Garfield Citizens
Association, and j. M. Harrison, pastor
of the Allen A. M. E. Church, both
complained about the Congress
Heights-Anacostia bus line. They
said it only runs from to am. and
from to pm. on week days and
from to 7:30 pm Sundays. Resi-
dents of that section must get home
early, or walk, they said They sug-
gested all-day service continued until
midnight.
Republican Women to Meet.
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