Evening star., 1936-07-16
PASSAGE THROUGH
CONGESTED AREA
WILL BE SHORTER
Construction Costing $444,-
600 to Remove Bottle
Neck Conditions.
PLANNING STARTED
FOLLOWING MERGER
Half of Double Track System Re
moved From Fourteenth Between
New York Avenue and H.
BY DON S. WARREN.

BY DON S. WARREN.
Changes in street car routes af-
fecting majority of Capital Transit
Co. passengers riding through the
downtown section, will go into oper-
alton Sunday. with completion of
virtually all the extensive track re-
adjustments.
Several new connections between
sections will be afforded. More direct
passage through the congested area
Will result from other changes. In
other cases some cars will be shifted
from heavily-traveled routes.
Company officials voiced hope the
changes would result in speedier
travel, particularly through the down
town area. The changes. approved by
by the Public Utilities Commission,
are the fruits of rerouting and track
planning started soon after merger
Of the two street car systems in De-
cember, 1888.
Bottle-necks in car routes in the
downtown section were removed by
construction of track changes at half
dozen key points in the area, at cost
Of more than S444.00O.
Fourteenth and H.
These included removal of half the
sets Of double tracks on Fourteenth
street, between New York avenue and
H street and on New York avenue be-
twen Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets,
both scheduled to be finished Sunday
morning: laying OF connection from
the stub-end tracks on G street into
Fifteenth street. at the Treasury. now
finished; laying of turn at the inter
section Of Fourteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue. now finished; new
connection at Fourteenth and H
street. and building of turn at Sev-
enteenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
| nue., now finished.
From Sunday there will be nowhere
/ in the District more than one set OF
double tracks on any route.
In many instances in the downtown
area the changes do not affect the
| origin and destination of cars, but
only the routes through the congested
area.
However, Fourteenth and Colorado
avenue cars will be sent directly down
Fourteenth street to the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing This is new,
direct connection. Fourteenth and De-
catur cars will continue to go to Eighth
| and F streets northeast, as in the past,
but will traverse Fourteenth street di-
rectly south to Pennsylvania avenue
instead of making the old loop through
New York avenue and Fifteenth street
past the Treasury.
Takoma- Navy Yard Cars.
Takoma-Navy Yard cars will ha-~
| the same terminus. but also will go
directly south to Pennsylvania avenus
and thence east, instead of making
the swing through New York avenue
and Fifteenth street.
Another through serice will be es-
tablished for the lines coming from
Fifteenth and H street northeast
They now halt at the stub end In the
track melange on New York avenue
just east of Fifteenth street. After
Sunday they are to be sent on west
to Washington Circle.
| SdAS llUO lHe COIlSeSJeQ
area from Brookland and Catholic
University, now going to the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing through
downtown G street, will be sent to
Potomac Park by making use of the
new connection between G street and
Fifteenth street and then the tracks
on Pennsylvania avenue north Of the
Treasury.
The Mount Pleasant Thirteenth and
D streets northeast line will be
changed to take advantage of the
track turn built at Seventeenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue. This is
designed to relieve congestion on
downtown Fourteenth and F streets.
They have been traversing H street
from Seventeenth to Fourteenth
street. then south to F street and
then east. After Sunday they are TO
swing south in Seventeenth street
from Connecticut avenue, turning
east on Pennsylvania avenue to Fiji
teenth street, then south to the new
connection on G street and going east
on that street to pick up the old
route at Fifth street.
No Change in Routes.
There will be no change, for the
present at least, in the routes of the
following lines: Mount Rainier.
Branchville, Riverdale or BeltSville;
Rosslyn-Seventeenth and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast: Friendship Heights
Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue:
Cabin John-Peace Monument; Mount
Pleasant Third and Indiana avenue
and Mount Pleasant-Lincoln Park
lines.
There will be no change in the pres
ent rush-hour services, company ON
cials said, except that Sunday will see
the abandonment of the rush-hour
service now operated between Catholic
University and the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing. Passengers using the
base day Catholic University cars en-
route to the bureau will have to trans
fer on reaching the downtown section.