Evening star., 1935-02-14
ROBERTS OPPOSES
TAK0MA EXPRESS
BUS 1OCENT FARE
Public Utilities Commission
Reconsideration to Be
Asked Today.
OPERATION PLANNED
ONLY IN RUSH HOURS
Board Authorizes Changes in
Route of Alexandra and
Shepherd Street Lines.

Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
will ask the Public Utilities Commits
sion today to reconsider its order call
ing for q 10-cent cash fare on the
express bus line to be established
March Is, running from Takoma 10
the downtown section via Thirteenth
street.
Roberts contends this line would not
be special service and that the fare
should be the same as that charged
on a street car line. The express
buses would be operated by the Capt.
tai Transit Co.
For Rush Hour Traffic.
The line will run during rush
hours only, south-bound in the
morning and north-bound in the
evening, with no passenger stops south
of Madison street.
Roberts said he feared different
fares for different types of bus
service would be started if the fare
for this new line is raised above the
level Of the street car fare.
Members of the commission, in
formed yesterday of Roberts protest
against the fare, declared they be-
lieved the charge reasonable and
proper and insisted the express bus
would afford special service more
desirable than regular street car
transportation.
Roberts planned to file his petition
some time this afternoon.
Urge Cross-Town Line.
Establishment of the proposed cross
town bus line to provide through
connection between Wisconsin and
Nebraska avenues and the area beyond
Catholic University also Is urged by
the peoples counsel.
He proposes that the busses from
the western point travel generally in
the direction of the Bureau of Stand
ards then over Porter street, Klingle
street, Park road, past the end Of the
Mount Pleasant car line and through
the Columbia Heights area and then
east through the Soldiers Home route
to point beyond Catholic University
on Rhode Island avenue northeast.
He urges that such a line afford
free transfers on presentation Of the
81 weekly passes.
Changes Authorized.
To provide better transportation for
Government workers in the area along
Constitution avenue, the Public Utili-
J ties Commission today authorized
changes in the route of the Alexandria
line and the busses operating to down.
town Washington from Twenty-second
and Shepherd streets northeast.
The Alexandria -Barcroft- Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. was authorized
to operate rush-hour busses from Vir-
ginia over the Arlington Memorial
Bridge so as to give additional service
to employees at the Navy and NUM-
tions Buildings. After crossing the
Memorial Bridge these extra buses will
go to Twenty-third street and Con-
stitution avenue, east on the avenue,
to Fourteenth street, then south on
Fourteenth street and Highway Bridge
to the District line. Outbound from
the city these rush-hour busses will
go north on Eleventh street from the
terminal at D street, east on E street
to Tenth street, then south to Consti-
tuition avenue and then east on the
regular route.
Effective Monday.
The Capital Transit Co., which
operates the bus from Twenty second
and Shepherd streets northeast, was
authorized to route some of its buses
now stopping at Tenth and D streets
to Fourteenth street and Constitution
avenue. Some of these buses will
continue to go to the terminal on
Pennsylvania avenue between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets. The
new service is effective Monday, when
the new service from Virginia will also
start.
At the request of Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer the commission
today also ordered abandonment Of
the bus stand of the Washington,
Virginia & Maryland Coach Co. on
the north side of M street west Of
Thirty-fourth street. AS substitute
the commission authorized q new bus
stand established on the west side of
Potomac street north of M street. The
change was made because Van DuZer
found the present stand was causing
unnecessary trafdc congestion.