Evening star., 1934-02-28
TRANSIT SYSTEM
CHANGES URGED
recommendations Made by
Logan Thomas Circle
Citizens Association.

A city-wide series Of changes in the
local transit system was recommended
to the Public Utilities Commission by
the Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens As
sociation last night.
There we're 10 local changes urged
and two general propositions put for
ward applicable to the entire city.
These were the universal free transfer
from street cars to busses and busses
to street cars, and 3 to minute
maximum headway between all cars
serving the downtown districts.
Split on Report.
On the question of relieving the
congestion of the Fourteenth street
car line occasioned by both east and
west bound cars feeding into Fifteenth
street at New York avenue, the COM
mittee which rendered a report to the
association was split, and rendered
majority and minority report. The
association adopted the plan of the
majority, which was presented by
Edward H. Young, chairman Of the
Public Utilities Committee. Horace
M. Fulton read the minority report.
The majority of the committee
would cut out the loop made by
cars going south on Fourteenth
street when they turn west on
New York avenue, south on Fiji
teenth street and east on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, by routing them
straight south on Fourteenth all the
way to Pennsylvania avenue. The
minority opposed this change, con-
tending 1t would overload the Four
teenth street tracks.
Recommendation Adopted.
The recommendations, as finally
adopted, follow:
l. Put in one-square extension Of
two-way trackage on H street from
Fourteenth street to New York avenue.
2. Extend the New York avenue
to Seventeenth street along Pennsyl-
vania avenue and loop the cars north
on Seventeenth street to H street,
thence east to Thirteenth street and
New York avenue, employing the new
trackage provided in the first recon-
mendation.
3. Reroute Fourteenth street cars
straight north and south on Four
teenth street between New York ave-
nue. and Pennsylvania avenue.
4. Take up duplicate trackage from
Fourteenth and H streets to Fifteenth
street and New York avenue and relay
single two-way trackage.
S. Loop G street cars up Fourteenth
street to New York avenue, east on
New York avenue to Eleventh street,
thence south to G again, thus avoid
ing the present terminal at Fifteenth
and G streets.
8. Take up trackage on G street be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets.
7. Lay two-way trackage on Massa-
chusetts avenue 50 as to connect
tracks at Fourth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue with those on New
Jersey avenue, thus providing a new
downtown cross-town route to Union
Station and relieving F and G streets
during rush periods.
8. Put in switches or curves to make
recommendations 2. and possible.
New Bus Service Urged.
Q. Establish a mid-city, cross-town
bus service connecting the street cars
at Dupont Circle with those at North
Capitol street and Florida avenue.
The busses would run west on P street
to Twenty-second street, north on
Twenty-second to @ street and east
on @ to Florida avenue, thence to
North Capitol street.
10. Establish feeder bus service
contracting street cars at Eleventh and
Monroe streets, and running north on
Eleventh to Spring road, west to Thir-
teenth, north on Thirteenth to the
Roosevelt High School, and return.
M. A. Robin was appointed by the
president, Mrs. Ella M. Thompson, to
attend a meeting Of the Burroughs
Citizens Association Thursday, when
that organization plan for national
representation, local suffrage and
elective municipal government will be
discussed.
Mr.. Thompson told of the city-wide
membership drive being conducted by
the Federation of Citizens Associ-
ationS.