Evening star., 1935-06-02
Utilities Body to Act on
Proposal to Improve
Service.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE
% PLAN TO BE STUDIED
Tentative Agreement Reached on
Anacostia. Congress Heights
Route.

Extensive revision Of bus operations
in the eastern sections of the city,
designed to give more and better serv-
ice and direct connections with main
lines, will be taken up for action this
week by the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
Action on these and the proposal
Of the Capital Transit Co. for sub
stitution of bus service for street cars
on Connecticut avenue from the new
Calvert Street Bridge out TO the end
Of that line will complete virtually
all the commissions present schedule
for rerouting
Commission officials already have
tentatively agreed upon a direct con-
nection to the downtown business
section for the Anacostia Congress
Heights bus line, which soon will sup
plant street car service. 1t was re-
vealed yesterday.
Other Shifts Planned.
They also are prepared to order
shifts in the routes of the Hillcrest,
Randle Highlands. Benning and Wash
ington interurban bus lines, after
many conferences with spokeSmen for
citizens associations in the affected
areas.
In recently ordering substitution of
bus service for street cars in the Ana
costa service, the commission directed
the buses to proceed west along Con-
stitution avenue to Twentieth street.
After further study the commission
has tentatively planned to provide a
direct downtown connection by send
ing the busSes west on Constitution
avenue to Sixth street, north to Penn
sylvania avenue, west to Eleventh
street and north to street. In max
ing the return TO Anacostia and Con-
gress Heights the buses would go east
on to Tenth. south on Tenth to H.
west to Eleventh, south to Pennsyl-
vs'1ia avenue and then back over the
inbound route. During rush hours
some of the buses would go directly
west on Constitution avenue TO Twen-
tieth street SO as to provide service to
Government buildings. Bus operation
has been ordered to start July l, but
this may be DELAYED because of slow
delivery of new busses.
The commission is reported also to
have agreed on a change in the south
eastern terminus for the Anacostia
line. Instead Of stopping at Nichols
avenue and Livingston road southeast.
the busses would make a loop through
Nichols avenue. HALEY place. First
street, Livingston road and then back
to Nichols avenue.
Changes in the east Washington bus
lines are reported to have been agreed
upon by spokesnen for the Northeast
Washington, Southeast, Hillcrest and
Randle Highlands groups. as we'll as
by Peoples Counsel Roberts and others
interested.
One purpose of the changes would
be to give all four bus lines a direct
connecting point at Barney Circle, at
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth
street southeast. to which the South
Washington bus line is to be extended
and where connection with street car
service will be provided.
Service Is Increased.
Hillcrest buses now run one an
hour in base day service and have
20-minute headway in rush hours.
The new plan calls for two an hour In
non-rush periods and a l5-minute
headway in rush hours. The proposed
new route for Hillcrest busses is along
Pennsylvania avenue, Branch avenue.
Camden street. Thirty street.
Alabama avenue. Naylor road, Twen-
ty-fifth street and back 10 PennSyl-
vania avenue. Under this plan the
direction followed by buses over this
route would be alternated.
The tentative new route of the
Randle Highlands buses would be
along PENNSYLVANIA and Minnesota
avenues. Good Hope road. Fourteenth
street. U street. Nichols avenue. Good
Hope road and back to Minnesota ave-
nue.. An alternate service would be
along Pennsylvania avenue. Twenty
fifth street. Naylor road and Minnesota
avenue and back to Pennsylvania
avenue
The Benning buses now ruin from
Barney Circle to Benning road and
Minnesota avenue northeast. The pro-
posed new plan is to extend the line
north on Minnesota avenue to Deane
avenue, where there would be con-
nection with the Kenilworth street
cars and with the Chesapeake Junction
or Columbia bus line.
New Route Proposed.
Under plans favorably considered by
the commission, the Washington In.
terurban busses would be connected
directly with Barney Circle. The route
proposed is along Bladensburg road,
Florida avenue, Thirteenth street.
East Capitol street. east to Seventeenth
street. south to Massachusetts, avenue,
east to Nineteenth street. south to
Potomac avenue, west to Seventeenth
street and south to Barney Circle.
The busses now go to Eleventh street
and South Carolina avenue southeast.
The change would give q connection
with the South Washington, Benning,
Hillcrest and Randle Highlands lines.
In the near future the commission
also will determine on possible new
route for the Garfield bus line In
Southeast Washington.
The commission has planned to take
up the proposed substitution of buses
for street cars on Connecticut avenue
for decision tomorrow, but action may
be delayed a few days because Of
public hearings on gas rates, which