Evening star., 1934-08-07
Five New Bus Lines, Three
Of Them of Express Type,
Included in Draft by UtiI-
tiles Body Expert.
WOULD PLACE TRACKS
AROUND DUPONT CIRCLE
Elimination Of Subterminal at
New York Avenue and Fif-
teenth Street Recommended.
Bus to Replace Line From
Chevy Chase Circle to Lake.

Three plans fer rerouting the city's
mass transportation system we're sub
mitted in outline today IN the Public
Utilities Commission by John Beeler,
expert employed by the commission TO
aid 1t In its task Of unifying the street
car and bus lines formerly operated
by competitive companies, but now all
controlled by the merged Capital
Transit Co.
All Of the plans call for extensive
reduction In trackage, and for the set
ting up of new bus routes, some 70
replace abandoned tracks and some
supplementary to street car service.
Would Reduce Tracks.
All the plans agree on the following:
On Fourteenth street between II
street and New York avenue, and on
New York avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets, the number Of
tracks on the street win be reduced
from four TO two.
The Columbia car line dlscontinues
use Of the stub terminal tracks at
Fifteenth street and New York ave-
nue., which are abolished, and the cars
continue westward along Pennsylvania
avenue to various terminals.
Cars from Tenleytown, Cabin John
and Potomac Heights come downtown
via Wisconsin avenue, M street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. This allows the
abandonment Of street car tracks on
p street between Dupont Circle ard
Wisconsin avenue, so that no street
cars viii turn out Of the circle into P
street.
Dupont Circle tracks are 10 be re-
laid, the tracks passing around both
sides Of the circle Just as the tracks
now are laid on Thomas Circle. Than
no car will travel the circle headed
into other trafic as at present. Bus
service is to be substituted for the car
service abandoned on p street.
Propose Bus Substitute.
Tracks on Wisconsin avenue beyond
Friendship Heights are discontinued
and express bus service substituted for
car service.
North of q street there viii be no
tracks on Ninth street and the Ninth
street line win be abandoned. A bus
line win be substituted fer the aban-
doned car line.
The tracks over which Potomac
Park cars now detour by way Of Sew
enteenth and F streets win be aban-
doned. These cars win proceed
north on Eighteenth streets to Penn
sylvania avenue.
The Le Droit Park line Is 10 be
abandoned In favor of bus service.
Tracks in Maryland beyond Chevy
Chase Circle to Chevy Chase Lake
are to be abandoned and replaced
by bus service.
Tracks on the Fourteenth street
line, beyond Sixteenth street and
Colorado avenue are abandoned, and
bus line substituted.
A loop track Is suggested for O
street, Linwood place. D street and
Fourteenth street, all southwest, for
better service for the employees OF
the Bureau of Engraving.
Tracks on Fifth street, between q
street and New York avenue, are to
be eliminated and the Maryland line
(cars to Mount Rainier, Hyattsville,
etc.e are TO follow @ street to Massa-
chusetts avenue, to North Capitol
street. and up North Capitol street
to New York avenue, thence east
on New York avenue.
Loop Is Provided.
A loop is provided at Sixth street,
@ street and Pennsylvania avenue 50
that cars serving the triangle area
and going south on Seventh street or
Ninth street or east on Pennsylvania
avenue may turn back without having
to go to the end of the line, as at
present.
In addition to the three separate
street car rerouting plans there is a
plan for setting up five new bus serv-
ices.
The differences between the three
individual plans may be summarized
as follows:
In plans one and three the Fifteenth
street tracks are extended one block
north from New York avenue to II
street and the F street tracks, which
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