Evening star., 1935-02-10
FASTER CAR LINE
SERVICE SOUGHT
BY ASSOCIATIONS
Speedier Routes Downtown
Aim of Second Meeting
Slated Tuesday.

Citizens associations Of North
Washington have banded together in
a movement to better transportation
facilities to downtown areas.
Having already held preliminary
meeting, delegates from several asso-
Citations will meet again Tuesday night
at the home of Lyster H. Dewey,
president Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation. The principal plan to be con-
sidered is express street car service
down Eleventh and Ninth streets.
The preliminary meeting last Tues
day night was called especially to seek
improvement OF this service.
Representatives Attending.
Those present were: w. C. Maya
than, president of the Citizens AsSo-
citation of Takoma, D. c.; DR.. j. P.
Turner, president, and John T. Gull
foyle, chairman of the Public Utih-
ties Committee of the Sixteenth
Street Highlands Citizens AsSocia-
ton; Thomas Joy. president, and Mrs.
Dora Leizear, chairman OF the Public
Utilities Committee of Chillum Heights
Citizens Association; Irwin Bolotin OF
Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens AS
sociation; washington Y. Boyd, chair
man of the Public Utilities Commit
tee, and Dewey of the Petworth Citi-
ZenS' Association.
The proposals receiving most con-
sideration and given general approval
are the following:
The use of Eleventh. street for ex-
press street car service from the
Georgia avenue and Fourteenth street
lines, to be connected by Kansas ave-
nue. and Piney Branch road, reSpec-
lively.
The use of Ninth street for express
service and to relieve street car traffic
down Seventh street south of U street.
The extending of Vermont avenue
through to Georgia avenue and thus
shunt express cars from Georgia ave-
nue. to Ninth street near the Banneker
Recreation Center rather than at U
street.
The prohibition of parking during
rush hours on express streets.
With reference to the Vermont ave-
nue. extension proposal, delegates
agreed to make a personal inspection
of the present terminus of the avenue
with view of extending it through
two undeveloped blocks before the
next meeting.
Each representative present speci-
fed that no agreement reached among
themselves could be binding until
their respective associations had acted
upon the plans.
Wants Express Cars Only.
A proposal by Boyd, which he ad-
mitted to be bit radical" specified
that all street car lines throughout the
District be operated on express Sched-
ules to make stops only at every tenth
block and to be supplemented by bus
service which would take care of all
local traffic. Transfers could then be
made, he said, from these buses to
street cars at any express car stop.
Various other methods of relieving
the streets of automobile traffic were
considered which, all agreed, should be
cleared up before street car and bus
service can be improved.
Included in these proposals was
plan whereby Sixteenth, Thirteenth,
Kansas avenue and Fifth streets would
be cleared Of parking during rush
hours so that an open lane of traffic
could accommodate automobiles on
the streets not used by street cars.
All groups not represented at the
last meeting will be urged to attend
the next meeting Tuesday, 7:30 pm,
at Dewey's home, 4512 Ninth street.