Evening star., 1935-04-12
ANACOST|A AREA
.CETSBUS SERVICE
EFFECTIVE JULY |.
Congress Heights Street Car
Line Will Be Supplanted
Soon.
CHANGE AUTHORIZED
BY D. c. COMMISSION
Ruling Means Abandonment of
Five Miles of Tracks-0ther
Changes Due Soon.

Substitution Of bus service for the
Aracostia Congress Heights street car
line from its far Southeast terminus to
the downtown section was ordered to-
day by the Public Utilities Commission
and approved by the District Commits
sioners. The change is to be effected
July l.
This completes action by the Utili-
ties Commission on all major problems
of track changes incident to the whole
rerorting program. The next step,
which will culminate the efforts of
the commission to improve the mass
transportation system of the District,
will be the issuance of general order
for the routing of street car lines.
The rerouting plan now Is being
whipped into shape, and may be made
public within a week or two. Some
joI changes in the destination of
street car lines are anticipated.
Today's order means abandonment
of approximately five miles Of street
car tracks and the consequent saving
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set. to some degree at least, the cost
of new busses and track construction
order in other cases. Abandonment
of this line also will make available
considerable number of street cars
for use on other lines.
Better Service Seen.
The commission believes the bus
service for the Anacostia area will
provide better service than that now
given by the street car line. Also
the substitute bus service will be run
along Constitution avenue to Twen-
tieth street and will provide a new
connection with the Government
housing area, whereas the Anacostia
street cars now 60 by the Capitol and
Union Station en- route to Tenleytown
and Friendship Heights.
The street car track abandonment
order applies to the line only up to
First and B streets southeast. The
street car operation to Tenleytown
and Friendship Heights from the
downtown section will not be affected.
/ The Anacostia bus line will start
beyond the terminus of the present
street car line at Nichols avenue and
Upsal street southeast. 1t will run
past the navy yard along approximate
ly the same route as the street car
line. The exact route to be followed
by the bus line follows:
From the intersection of Livingston
road, north on Nichols avenue. over
Anacostia Bridge. north on Eleventh
street, west on Virginia avenue, north
on Fourth street, west on e street, then
along Canal street and c street to
Sixth, north on Sixth to Constitu-
ton avenue, west on Constitution ave-
nue. to Twentieth and then there
will be a loop around Twentieth street,
c street and Virginia avenue and
back to Constitution avenue. Out
bound buses will follow the same
route.
Regular Fares Apply.
The southbound busses in the Ana
costa service will not go all the way
to Congress Heights. These buSseS
will make a turn-around loop in the
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Howard road from Nichols avenue,
then north on Shannon place and
east on Tablut street to Nichols ave-
nue. and then back to the downtown
area.
The regular street car rates Of fare
will apply to the Anacostia- Congress
Heights busses. including free trans
fers to such lines as now permitted
under the street car plan. The rates
are 10 cents cash or four tokens for
80 cents, or use of the Sl-a-week
street car pass.
officials of the commission and the
Capitol Transit Co., could not give
an estimate of the number of busses
required for the new service or the
exact number of street cars that will
be free for use elsewhere.
The order contains directions for the
company to make a number of track
changes required by the abandonment
of the Anacostia- Congress Heights
street car line at several points, such
as at First and B streets southeast, in
E street between First and Fourth
streets, and in Eleventh street between
G street and the Anacostia Bridge.
The order also calls for the abandon
ment of the car pit in Nichols avenue,
near Talvert southeast.