Evening star., 1935-01-06
Spurs East and West of
Connecticut Ave. Filed by
Capital Transit Co.
COMMISSION WILL TAKE
ACTION ON PLAN MONDAY
Same Rates as in Vogue on Chevy
Chase Loop Asked in Rock
Creek Lines.

Proposals for establishment of two
new bus lines to serve areas to the
east and west of Connecticut avenue
near the District line were filed yes
terday with the Public Utilities Com
mission by the Capital Transit Co.
The proposals will be considered by
the commission tomorrow and 1t is ex-
pected approval will be granted. The
commission will give precedence to
this over all other rerouting matters.
While the plan has a relation to re-
routing of the lines of the transit COM
pany it is more definitely an extern
sion Of service.
The action comes as result OF an
appeal by William A. Roberts, peoples
counsel. for provision of bus service
for residences of the area near the
District line and Rock Creek Park.
Chevy Chase Fares Slated.
The proposed rates of fare and
transfer privileges now applicable to
the Chevy Chase loop bus line would
apply to the suggested new routes.
This would be 10 cents cash or four
tokens for 80 cents, with free trans
fers to all connection street car and
bus lines, except the Chevy Chase
coach line. an extra fare service. The
fare would be cents cash, without
transfer rights, or two-part ticket
selling for 20 cents, good for any point
on either Of the two lines and any
point on the Chevy Chase coach line.
The two new lines would have Is
minute service.
One of the proposed new routes
would be from the intersection Of the
District line and Buterworth place
to the Bureau of Standards. The
other would be two-way line roughly
bounded by Nebraska avenue, Forty
first street, Tennyson street and Utah
avenue
Plans Approved in Principle.
The proposals were submitted to
the commission by John H. Hanna,
president of the transit company. The
plans have been approved in principle
by Fred A. Sager. chief engineer Of
the Utilities Commission. E. S. Par
doe, superintendent of bus operations
Of the transit company, Is sponsor
of the plans.
Provision Of this bus service, it Is
explained, would provide transporta-
ton to and from the Woodrow Wilson
High School, the Alice Deal Junior
High School, an elementary school at
Broad Branch road and Quesada
street and stores at Connecticut and
Nebraska avenues and those near
Chevy Chase Circle.
The route of the two-way feeder
bus line east Of Connecticut avenue
would be from the intersection Of
Nebraska and Wisconsin avenues.
north to Forty-first street. to McKin-
ley street. to Broad Branch road, to
Western avenue, to Tennyson street,
to Utah avenue. to Thirtieth place.
to Military road, to Nebraska avenue
and back to Wisconsin avenue.
Second Bus Route.
The other line would start at the
District line on Butterworth place. go
along Butterworth place to Forty
ninth street, north to Chesapeake
street, along Forty-seventh street.
north to FeSsenden street. southeast
along River road to Wisconsin avenue
to Tenley Circle and then along
Yuma street to Thirty eighth street,
to Van Ness street and to the Bureau
of Standards. returning by way Of
Van Ness street to Reno road, to
Veazey street, to Thirty-ninth street,
to Window place and Tenley Circle.
The company proposes that when
this plan is adopted the Wesley
Heights s-Massachusetts avenue bus
line be turned back at Nebraska and
Massachusetts, avenues. pending fur
ther studies of this bus line.