Evening star., 1937-02-28
EXPRESS BUS LINE
STARTS MAY Z IN
TAK0MA SERVICE
Substitution for Trolleys Is
Ordered by Public Uti|i-
ties Board.
FARE IS 10 CENTS CASH
OR WEEKLY $1.25 PASS
Locals Also Are Provided for to
Connect With Fourteenth
Street Cars.


day by the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
In a major shake-up of the trans
portation facilities tor the far north
sector of the District. the commits
sion provided for abandonment OF the
Takoma street car tracks beyond
Fourteenth and Kennedy streets, for
revision of the present bus servi 2
to Chillum Heights and for bus serv-
ice for lower Ninth street.
Abandonment of the Takona st: ,et
ear line has been long anticipated,
but there was considerable contest
over what should be the routes OF
the substitute bus Sc ,! ;. The routes
selected are a modification of varied
views voiced by the Jfficials of the
Capital Transit Co. and civic spokes-
men at a hearing last November.
10-Cent Expresses.
On express busses the fare will be
10 cents cash or use of the SIPS
weekly pass, and on new loco bus
service the fare will be the same as
the established street car fare. Trans
fer privileges will be afforded at some
points.
Some of the express busses from
Takoma will use Third street in that
area and some of them .'ifth street.
Some of them will enter the down.
town area on Thirteenth street and
others will be routed through lower
Ninth street
The commission also ordered a
change in the route of the Hyattsville-
Laurel busses of the Capital Transit
Co. to send them through Ninth
street instead of Tenth street to pro-
vide better service to business houses
on lower Ninth street. This change
is effective March IA.
The order is intended to end the
controversy which started more than
two years ago when the commission
ordered removal of the street car
tracks on Kenned street between
Fourteenth street and Georgia ave-
nue.. Later the commission ordered
that the Takoma line be double
Kennedy street to Takoma. That
order Is now rescinded
Because of demands for continual
tion of a connection with the Four
teenth street car lines, the commission
has ordered establishment of feeder
bus service from Takoma to Four
teenth and Kennedy streets. On this
line the charge will be the regular
street car token fare.
The route will be from an Off
Street terminus for the Fourteenth
street car line, just below Kennedy
street, east on Kennedy, north on
Third, east on Aspen, north on Willow
to the District line, south on Laurel,
west on Aspen, south on Third and
west on Kennedy to return to the
street car connection.
Rush Hour Service.
The morning rush hour express
busses will be operated Mondays
through Saturdays and the evening
rush hour express busses Mondays
through Fridays, with similar service
for the afternoon rush period on Sat-
urdays, except on legal holidays.
The Fifth street express busses will
start from a terminal on Fifth street
south Of Dahlia. They will 60 south
on Fifth, west on Madison, south on
Thirteenth and then loop around
Pennsylvania avenue, Seventh street
and Constitution avenue to reach a
terminus on Ninth street below Penn
sylvania avenue Northbound, the
buses will enter Takoma on Fifth
street. then go west on Cedar north
on Sixth street and Piney Branch
road, east on Dahlia and south on
Fifth to the terminus.
Passengers will not be permitted to
board southbound busses south of
Madison street, and will not be per-
mitted to leave southbound buses
south Of this point and north of
Massachusetts, avenue. Passengers will
not be permitted 10 board northbound
buses north of Massachusetts avenue
nor to leave them south OF Madison
street.
The Third street express ruSh-hour
buses will have a terminus on Laurel
street at the District line. They will
60 south on Laurel, west on Aspen.
south on Third street, Kansas, Il
linois, New Hampshire, Sherman and
Florida avenues and Ninth street,
turning east on Pennsylvania avenue.
then making the loop through Seventh
street and Constitution avenue to
reach the terminus on Ninth street
below Pennsylvania avenue. North
bound, they will follow the same route
in reverse. They will be express be-
tween Gallatin street and Massa-
ehusetts avenue.
Other Service Extensions.
There will be two other express
services A midday non-rush express
service will travel over Fifth street,
In Takoma, and through Sherman
and Grant Circles and the series Of
avenues to reach Thirteenth street
and then 60 to the Ninth street ter
minus below Pennsylvania avenue. An
evening non-rush express service will
follow the same route, but terminate
at Eleventh and E streets. These
buses will be express between Park
road and Massachusetts, avenue.
The Capital Transit Co. was di-
fected to run its Petworth busses over
triangular route north of Sherman
Circle, via Kansas avenue. Gallatin
and Eighth streets and Illinois avenue.
The buses which have continued to
Chillum Heights. via Kansas ave-
nue., will be routed north from Grant
Circle on New Hampshire svenue,
west on Kennedy. north on Second
street and Kansas avenue, east on
Madison and then south on North
Capitol street and New Hampshire