Evening star., 1935-05-31
20 TROLLEY ROUTE
CHANGES ORDERED
Transit Company Warned
Its Life Depends on
Will to Serve.
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street, pennsylvania avenue, Fifteenth
street, G street, Massachusetts, avenue,
North Capitol street, Michigan avenue,
Monroe street and Twelfth street to
the terminus south of Twelfth street
and Michigan avenue northeast.
This route also makes use Of two
other track changes ordered by the
commission. One is a connection at
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, so that cars can be turned
east at the Court of Claims building.
The other is the double-track connec-
tion ordered from the present stub
end in G street into Fifteenth street
to tie in with tracks at Fifteenth and
New York avenue.
Same Route to Catholic University.
En- route to Catholic University,
Chevy Chase cars will follow the same
route, terminating at the crossover in
Michigan avenue east of Fourth
street.
The third new line from Chevy
Chase, en- route to the new loop to be
built at Sixth and c streets, will send
cars down Connecticut avenue, CAL
vert street, Adams Mill road, Eight
eenth street, U street, Eleventh street,
E street, Ninth street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue to the loop.
Another new line for Connecticut
avenue cars will be one from the Bu-
reau of Standards to Ninth and E
streets. This will make use of the
same route as the Sixth and C loop
service, with the cars starting their
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During rush hours Chevy Chase cars
will be operated to Potomac Park via
Connecticut avenue, Calvert street,
Adams Mill road, Connecticut avenue,
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue to the big Potomac Park loop
through Nineteenth and Eighteenth.
The commission ordered a connec-
ton of the Cabin John and Beltsville,
Md, lines, this calling for the longest
direct rail connection.
Route of Line.
From the western terminus these
cars will follow he company's right
of way and public land to Prospect
street. and then through Georgetown
via Thirty-flfth street, o street, Wis
consin avenue, M street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, then around Washing
ton Circle and Pennsylvania avenue
again, through the Fifteenth street
jog and along 6 street, Fifth street,
New York avenue. lexington place, r
street, Third street, T street. Fourth
street, Rhode Island avenue, to the
District line, and thence to Belts
Vile An extra fare is charged be-
yond the District line. The return will
be made by way of Rhode Island
avenue, Fourth street, T street, Second
street, p street, and the eastbound
route from thence, on.
A shortened trip over the same
route will connect cars from Potomac
Heights to Beltsville.
A more shortened trip over the
same general route will send cars
from Washington Circle to the Eek
ington car barns at Fourth and T
streets northeast.
New Connection Planned.
Friendship Heights, Md, will be
connected with Fifteenth and H
streets northeast. This line as we'll
as the Cabin John and Potomac
Heights routes are made possible by
a new connection between the Wiscon-
sin and M street tracks at their in
tersection in Georgetown, now nearly
completed. This obviates the need
of sending cars through the street
tracks to Dupont Circle, which have
been ordered abandoned.
The route of the new Friendship
Heights line will be along Wisconsin
avenue, M street, Pennsylvania ave-
nue., New York avenue, K street,
Massachusetts, avenue and H street
northeast.
There will be direct connection
between Potomac Park and Chesa-
peake Junction, under another phase
of the general order. This will afford
q direct downtown service from Kenil-
worth, which citizens of this area
have been seeking in a long campaign.
The route will be Virginia avenue,
Eighteenth street, Pennsylvania ave-
nue., New York avenue, K street,
Massachusetts, avenue, H street, Ben
ming road, Kenilworth avenue. Deane
avenue, and a private right of way
to the junction. The return route will
be the same. Some of these cars will
60 only to Kenilworth and make the
return trip from there.
Loop to Be Eliminated.
Fourteenth street cars will be af-
fected principally by track changes
which will permit routing directly
south on Fourteenth street through
the business section instead of max
ing the present loop through New
York avenue and Fifteenth street to
Pennsylvania avenue
There will be line from Fourteenth
street and Colorado avenue to the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Another line will run from Four
feenth and Decatur to Union Station,
using Fourteenth street, PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, First street. c street, First
street northeast and Union Station
Plaza. This is made possible by or
ders for curve connection at Four
teenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
hue.
Another Of these lines will run
from Fourteenth and Decatur streets
to the Navy Yard, this being the same
as present operation. except that the
cars will 60 straight down Fourteenth
street to the Avenue, where the cars
will make left turn through the new
connection.
Other Fourteenth street cars, from
Decatur street, will terminate at the
new loop at Sixth and C streets, these
using the same new turn at Four
teenth sereet and Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
Eleventh and Monroe Line.
The commission also has ordered a
connection from Eleventh and Mon
roe streets to Ninth and E streets.
These cars will traverse Eleventh
street, to E street, then go east to
Ninth street, and loop back to
Eleventh through G street.
Georgia avenue cars will operate
from the District line down the ave-
nue. and Seventh street to the loop
north of Pennsylvania avenue. This