Evening star., 1939-08-20

involved.
A local legislature or the ma
tional legislature, in which the
District would be represented,
could not have done any worse
than in these cases of inefficient
drafting. In the civic ranks there
is interest in discovering Just
who is to blame for this care
lessness and to discover a rem
edy against occurrences.
Proposed Abandonment of the
Original Takoma Car Line.
The petition of the Capital
Transit Co. for permission to
abandon the Butternut street
car line to Takoma will be heard
by the Public Utilities Commits
sion probably during September.
1t was expected that the hear
ing would be set for a day be-
tween Labor Day and the 18th.
but interested citizens have asked
for later date.
The travel on this line to Ia
koma has nearly dried up since
the company put on the several
bus lines to that section. Pat
rons have shown a decided pref
erence for riding in over crowd
ed buses rather than using the
cars.
At a citizens meeting recently
held by the Takoma Park, Mary
land-District of Columbia Citi-
zens' Association protest was
voted against the proposed aband-
onment of the rail tranSporta-
ton between Georgia avenue
and Butternut street and the
present terminus at Fourth and
Cedar streets. 1t is understood
that most of those attending
the meeting were frank to ad-
nit that they use the bus lines
most of the time and only occa-
sionally the car line.
A desire was expressed at this
meeting that the company put in
loop at the end of the Butter
nut street line so that the new
streamlined cars might be sub
stltuIed for the present equip
ment. This. it was thought,
would so improve the service as
to induce an increased use of the
old original Takoma Park line.
The company, it is understood, is
not prepared to undertake such
a change at this time.
A loop is now in course of con-
struction at the end of the Geor-
gla avenue line at Alaska and
Eastern avenues and Kalmia road.
A street car and bus terminal is
to be erected at this point. Upon
completion of these improvements
the new type cars will be put into
service on this line.
The suggested abandonment of
the Butternut street car service
encourages the members of the
Citizens Association of Takoma.
D. c., to renew the requests of
several years ago for more con-
venient all-day bus service for
the people of the District side.
One of the objections of the
company to meeting the desires
of these citizens at that time was
that such service would be in
competition with the car line.
With the Butternut street line
out of the picture there appears
to be no obstacle to giving the
Takoma, D. c., residents an all
day bus service comparable with
that of the il express line op-
Grated during morning and after
noon rush hours. This desire for
an all-day bus service does not
include approval of the type of
buses used on that line.
Considerable complaint has
been heard against the use of so
many of the old small buses on
this express line while the other
bus lines to Takoma are favored
with the newer and more COM
Portable vehicles. There is
lively interest in the solution of
this transportation problem. 1t
is expected that the hearings on
this case will be we'll attended
and interesting.