Evening star., 1936-06-12
ONE SET Of RAILS
ON 14TH STREET
TO Be REMOVED
Downtown Changes to Be
Completed in July to Cost
About $4,000.
2 w. R. 7. MEN TAKE
NEW JOBS IN MERGER
Shs piro Becomes Assistant Gen.
eral Manager and Beall
Ststisticjan.

The largest of the street car track
changes ordered by the Public Utilities
Commission in its transportation re-
routing program will be started Nom
osy by the Capital Transit Co., it was
announced today.
This involves removal Of half the
double set OF track on Fourteenth
street between New York avenue and
H street, the same sort of changes on
New York avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets sn6 2 turn IN
tracks st Fifteenth street and New
York avenue
Al the same time today the Capital
Transit Co. announced that two off,
cials of the now moribund Washington
Rapid Transit Co. had been appointed
10 new posts with the Capital company
as a result OF the merger and the i'm
pending dissolution OF the w. r. T.
Shapiro TO Take Post.
Alexander Shapiro, formerly vice
president and assistant general man.
ager Of the w. r. T., has become as
sistsnt general manager Of the Ca pital
company. Louis Beall. formerly secre-
tsry treasurer Of the w. r. T, becomes
ststistician for the Capital company
and associated with the ofhces of Gem
ersl Manager e. D. Merrill. Merrill
formerly was president of the w. f. I.
The downtown track changes about
10 be started, 10 cost SI60,00O, are 10
be finished late in July. A companion
loo. the construction of connection
between The old stub end track on G
street into Fifteenth street, is 10 be
finished in about TWO weeks al a cost
of $4,000.
Just recently track turn was built
on the northeast corner o. Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, al q
cost of about sos 900.
All these changes we're planned as .
means Of providing more direct pass
age of street cars through the down
town congested area, which now slow
! no mass transportation. They also
permit number of changes in desri-
nation Of cars and avoid the present
necessity for Fourteenth street carS,
bound for southeast points, 10 make
the loop through Fifteenth street.
Also The G street connection makes
IL possible for cars rom the north and
east 10 traverse G street, west bound.
Anticipating a bitter battle over
proposals Of the Capital Transit Co.
to expand its one-man car operations,
rhe Public Utilities Commission an
nounceo. meanwhile, it is sending its
vice chairman, Richmond 3. Keech.
10 make a personal study of mass
transportation in four cities, TO pa ather
evidence for hearing on the issue
here.
Row Over One-MsD Cars.
The commission esrIv next month
plans 10 call 8 public hearing on the
petition of the company 10 be allowed
10 convert the 20 new streamlined
street cars TO one-nan operation and
10 place in service so secondhand
one-msn cars purchased from Provl-
dence, r. 7.
Thirty OF the SECONDHAND cars, the
commission has been informed, would
be repls cementS for worn-our one
oAs'H NCiS AANAF nbb ~ bNJlSES bTf DIO%
posed for Use as repIscements for
worn-out two-mau rars.
The Federation OF Citizens Asso-
cjs tons last Saturday reiterated its
objection not only 10 sny increase
over rhe II one-man cars now on
Grated, but 70 continued use nf this
number, as well Peoples Counsel
william A. Roberts also will fight the
company proposals, which he sees as
a move for complete adoption Of one
man car units.
To Study Jrsfic Control.
The District Commissioners have
directed Tratbc Director william A.
Van Duser, Director of Highways H.
G. Whitehurst and Police Supt. Ernest
W. Brown TO study tranic control 81
Milwaukee, where low fatality rec
ord has been set. The STUDY was Sug-
gested by Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee. John
Nolen will 60 as representative Of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Keech is asking the other officials,
while in Milwaukee, 10 study the eff
fects Of one-msn car operation there
10 give the commission the benefit of
their views.
On the return trip, Keech, and pos
sibly other members of the group, will
srlIdy one-msn car operation in Chi
cago. Pittsburgh and Cleveland.