Evening star., 1941-05-09
Traffic Council
Backs Highway
plan Principle
Also Fovors Poy Day
Staggering to Avoid
Congestion Peaks

The Traffic Advisory Council to-
day was on record as approving IN e
principle" the comprehensive traffic
improvement program for WASH -
ington made public recently by
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director OF
highways.
Action on the plan was taken last
night at meeting in the District
Building. although no detailed rec
concentrations were made pending
further study by special committee
of the council.
The group also favored the idea
of staggered pay days for Federal ,
employees, pointing out that such
program would reduce traffic con- =
gestion due to the peak" demands
on Washington business establish
ments on two days a month by
spreading the demand over the en- =
tire month.
In another motion, the council
reiterated its opposition to the pro-
posed closing of that part of Van
Ness street NV. which runs through
the grounds of the Bureau of Stand
ards, which has been requested OF
Congress by Secretary of Com.
merce Jones. Members of the coun-
Gil emphasized that closing that
portion of the thoroughfare would
work hardship on traffic in the
area.
Ask $4,000 Safety Fund.
With 29 traffic fatalities in the
District thus far as compared with
15 during a similar period last year,
the council asked for an increase
from $500 to $4,000 in the funds
granted it annually for safety edu-
cation work The additional funds
would go toward a greater distri-
button of safety releases, folders,
posters, films, news letters and side
walk paintings and the placing Of
safety signs at entrances to the
city.
Declaring that the present zone
rate system for taXicabs is perhaps
the root of most of the evils in the
local taXicab industry" the traffic
group urged the elimination from
the annual District appropriation
bill of the legislative rider which
prohibits the placing of meters in
taxicabs The group however, did
not specifically recommend the in
stallation of meters in cabs, leaving
that matter open for future study.
The council also deplored the
"rigidity" of examinations for
hackers licenses and asked that
large taXicab organizations be per-
mitted to certify certain applicants
for licenses as qualified in their
knowledge of the city and thus
save the hack inspectors consider
able time"
The following parking changes
were recommended by the council
to the Commissioners for their an.
proval:
Northwest
One-hour parking from am. TO
6 pm. on Constitution avenue be-
tween Fourth and Sixth streets.
Also one-hour parking from am.
to 6 pm. on Sixth street between
Madison and Washington drives.
No parking between 8 am. and
6 pm. on the north side of De Sales
street between Seventeenth street
and Connecticut avenue.
No parking at any time on the
north side of I street alongside
OF Mcpherson Square
No parking at any time on the
north side of K street from Eleventh
to Twelfth streets.
NO parking at any time on the
north side of Monroe street between
seventeenth and Brown streets.
No parking at any time on the
south side of Porter street from
connecticut avenue to Thirty fourth
street.
No parking at any time on the
north side of Summit place from
the west building line of Harvard
village Apartments to the end of
the street.
No parking at any time on the
west SIDE of Third street from In
diana avenue to c street.
No parking from 7 to $50 m
ana from 4 to s pm. on the east
side OF Fifth street and no parking
at any time on the west side from
ROCK Creek Church road to Blair
road.
No parking at any time on the
west side of Twelfth street he
tween Massachusetts, and Vermont
avenues
No parking from 7 to $50 m
and from 4 to pm. on both sides
OF seventeenth street from G street
south to E street and one hour park
ing from $50 am. to pm
NO parking at any time on the
east side of Seventeenth street from
pennsylvania avenue south to a
point opposite the south curb Of
F street
Southwest.
lhlrty-minute parking from 7
am. to pm. on the south side of
ID street from Fourth street east
to the second door of the shippinp
platform. And Commute parking
between those hours on the north
side of Virginia avenue from Fourth
street east to the loading platforms.
The following one-way proposals
were recommended:
Northwest-The south driveway Of
Massachusetts avenue from Forty
ninth street to Fordham road for
east-bound traffic only; from Wis
consin avenue to Albemarle street
for northbound traffic only.
Southeast-One way eaStbound on
Potomac avenue and L street from
Eighth street to Eleventh street.
The council also recommended
that vehicular traffic be permitted
to pass on both sides of the street
loading platform on the south side
OF. F street west of Twelfth street
NV.