Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-15
TAKOMA TRANSIT
VIEWS TO Be GIVEN
Citizens, After Mass Meet
ing, to Oppose Use of
Buses in Place of Cars.

When the Public Utilities Commits
sion opens the hearing on proposals
Of the Capital Transit Co. to change
Takoma Park transportation service,
tomorrow at 10 am, a brief state
ment setting forth the views Of Mary.
land patrons of the road will be Of
fered for consideration.
The statement will consist Of ex-
pressions obtained at a mass meeting
last week and will be presented by
Town Councilman Chester c. Waters.
who is also chairman Of the Public
Utilities Committee Of the Takoma
Park, D. C.-Md., Citizens Association.
The hearing was postponed from
November at the request of Waters
so that the mass meeting could be
held TO ascertain citizens views on
the substituting Of buses for the pres
ent rail system on Third and Kennedy
streets and other proposed transport
tation changes.
Transit Company Proposals.
Included in the proposals of the
| transit company are the substitution
Of a shuttle bus service between East
ern and Laurel avenues and Four
tenth street and Colorado avenue.
with a suitable waiting station at the
latter point. The company also seeks
to establish an express bus service
via Laurel avenue TO Sandy Spring
road, to Van Buren, street, to Fifth
street, New Hampshire. Sherman and
Vermont avenues to Thirteenth street
and south to Seventh street and Con-
stitution avenue. The possibility Of
an all-day bus service or an express
bus service from Laurel avenue to
Van Buren, and Third streets and
thence south to the center OF the
city also will be discussed. These
would be in addition to the present
morning and evening express bus serv-
ice. which operates from Willow and
Carroll avenues to Cedar, Fifth, Mad
ison and Thirteenth streets to the
center Of the city. The citizens have
been assured that this bus service will
not be abandoned, but it is the pro-
posed discontinuance Of street rail
service and the substitution Of buses
on the Third and Kennedy streets
line that is causing the most concern
among the residents of the Takoms
area.
Merrill Explains Plan.
At the mass meeting z. D. Merrill,
vice president and general manager OF
the Capital Transit Co., outlined the
desire of the company to relieve COZ
gested conditions on the Fourteenth
street line by laying out bus routes
east Of Fourteenth street. BE e.
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service be continued Is sSRz-ss tas
petition Of the Capital Transit c. -
substitute buses On Third and Ken.
nedy streets. The various civic Or
CARNATIONS and citizens associations
in the area affected by the proposed
changes viii be represented at the
hearing tomorrow.