Evening star., 1935-01-21
TRANSIT ROUTING
CHANGESDUES SOON
Shifts in Street Car Service
Expected to Aid Traffic
Here.

Decision on a number of important
plans for Terouting the lines Of the
Capital Transit Co. will be reached in
the near future by the Public Utilities
Commission, it was indicated today.
One of the most important concerns
shirts in routes and necessary track
changes to make possible removal of
one of the two sets of double tracks
on Fourteenth street between New
York avenue and H Street.
Another is for a revised system of
mass transportation to the downtown
section from the Takoma Park and
Chillum areas. Proposals on this
matter involve the tracks on Four
teenth, Kennedy and Third streets as
well as on Georgia avenue.
Considerable interest has been at
tached to these plans by the residents
and business houses along the routes
which will be effected
Orders to Be Issued.
Public hearings on routing and
track changes were concluded weeks
ago and members of the commission
now are approaching the conclusion
of their separate studies of the plans.
These will be consolidated into COM
mission orders which may be issued
within month or six weeks.
More than dozen route or track
change orders already have been is
sued, many of them to be made effec-
tive in the future. These were de-
signed to lay the basis, in part, for
new routes to be ordered subsequently.
One of the proposals in connection
with the downtown problem is to lay
connections from either F or G street
to Fifteenth street so that cars could
be routed west along Pennsylvania
avenue to Seventeenth street Some
Of the cars then could be sent north
to connect with Connecticut avenue
or west along Pennsylvania avenue to
Georgetown.
Another plan is to run tracks on
Fifteenth street between H street and
New York avenue so that cars now
going through the double sets of
tracks on Fourteenth street could be
sent through Fifteenth. Experts say
it would be necessary to widen Fiji
teenth street to allow for double
tracks.
Thirteenth Street.
Still another suggestion is to extend
tracks east along H street either to
Thirteenth or Eleventh street or pos
sibly further east before turning south
to F or G streets. One problem here
is the narrow width of H street and
the jog it takes at Thirteenth street.
The problem in connection with
placing tracks on Thirteenth street is
the heavy vehicular traffic it now
carries, some say.
Several suggestions have been offered
for the Takoma and Chillum areas.
There have been suggestions for re-
moval of the single track on Kennedy
between Fourteenth street and Geor-
gia avenue and a doubling of the
tracks on Kennedy street from Geor-
gia avenue to Third street. A third
suggestion is for establishment of
feeder bus lines to provide contact be-
tween Takoma and Chillum and upper
Fourteenth street points.
These suggestions revolve around a
plan to lay connections between tracks
at Third street and Georgia avenue to
make possible a routing of cars from
Takoma directly down Third street,
Georgia avenue and Seventh street to
points near the downtown congested
area. This already has been made
possible by orders for a north and
south track connection at the inter-
section of Georgia avenue, U street
and Florida avenue, not now existing
in present tracks.
Such changes, some argue, would
tighten the congestion of street car
traffic on Fourteenth street. Also, it
is argued, the change would avoid
delays by cars now coming down
Georgia avenue and turning west on
U street to reach Ninth street.