Evening star., 1934-08-08
TRANSIT COMPANY
LIKELY TO OFOREGO
REROUT|NG PLANS
Hanna, President of Line,
Believes Suggestions
Only to Be Made.
WITAH0LDS GENERAL
COMMENT ON SCHEMES
Some Criticism Is offered on
Commission Experts
Proposals.

Presi6ent John II. Hanna OF TIE
Capitol Transit Co today said it WAS
doubtful whether his company would
have any complete rerouting plan for
street cars and busses TO suggest at
the pubic hearing before the Public
Utilities Commission next Wednesday.
His company. he said. might be con-
tent To offer suggestions for certain
change in the plans OF the commits
sl0n's expert, John Beeler, a synopsis
Of which was published yesterday.
Asked for comment on the Beeler
plans, Mr.. Hanna expressed some
doubt as to the wisdom OF abandoning
trackaxe on Ninth street and building
additional tracks on Eleventh street,
as oil three Beeler plans suggest
He also said there were few other
things IN the Beeler plans that he
might criticize at the hearings. He
did NOT identify these.
Comment Guarded.
Comment on the publication OF the
plans generally was guarded, owing
20 the fragmentary nature of the
plans presented The full text of the
plans viii be available for publication
IN the newspapers next Sunday.
Peoples Counsel william A. Roberts
pointed out that he was unable to
tell from the extracts presented by
Beeler whether there Is some general
plan In contemplation or whether
Beeler simply proposes to get rid of
a certain amount of excess track and
then rebuild the transportation system
20 suit. He also decided TO withhold
extended comment until after pub
lication of the fun text OF the plans.
He pointed out. however, that
abandonment OF street car tracks be-
yund Friendship Heights and the
coincinent abandonment OF tracks on
r street between Dupont Circle and
wisconsin avenue would probably
mean that rider would have 10
make three transfers TO get from
point beyond Friendship Heights to
Mount Pleasant. He would have TO
get on a bus and ride. to the street
car tracks on Wisconsin avenue, then.
on street car down Wisconsin ave-
nue. Ia p street. then on bus from
r street to Dupont Circle, then on a
street car from Dupont Circle TO
Mount Pleasant.
Old Plans Recalled.
Abandonment of the r street tracks
would mean that the old Washington
Railway a. Electric line cars from
the downtown section to Georgetown
and points beyond, such as Glen
Echo, will follow their present routes
inbound as far as Prospect and Thirty
NTH streets, then they would go north
on Thirty fifth street to Dumbarton
street, east down Dumbarton street
10 Wisconsin avenue, south ON Wis
consin avenue to NJ street, and then
along M street and Pennsylvania
avenue over the old Capital Traction
lines 10 the Treasury and other
points This would necessitate in
stallation OF track to allow turn out
of wisconsin avenue into NJ street.
The lfsct that the Capital Transit
Co. may not put in any entire re-
routing plan OF It's own recalls that
several Of the changes suggested by
Mr.. Beeler are the same as those
worked out by the transit company
and printed in The Star some months
ago. The plan to bring the wiscon-
sin avenue cars over M street and
Pennsylvania avenue is one of them.
Another is the plan TO bring Georgia
avenue cars straight down Sevanth
street Instead of making u" lurn
near The Washington Base Ball Park
into Ninth street as at present.
wouid Relieve Fourteenth Street.
It was learned that one of the sug-
gestiors to be made by commission
experts during the hearing is con-
nection between the two competing
street car lines now serving the Ia
koma Park area. One suggestion is
that the lines be connected at Ken
nedy street and Georgia avenue so
that some of the cars of the old Cap
ital Traction Co, might come south on
Georgia avenue instead of being COM
PEELED to use Fourteenth street as at
present. Fourteenth street, it is said.
now is carrying a load of street cars
which cannot be increased and should
be decreased. and this method will be
offered OF switching some of the load
over 10 Georgia avenue, where street
car tTgIfie is lighter.