Evening star., 1942-11-23
Uniform Fare
AgreenlentSeen
Within Week
Rate to Pentoeon
To Be Is 1-3 or IS
Cents Per Trip

Prolonged negotiations for a uni
form fare on the four bus lines
serving the thousands of Federal
employees in the Pentagon and other
Government buildings in Arlington
County are expected to end within
the next week, it was learned today
from an authoritative source.
Additional bus service to the
Pentagon Building was approved.
meanwhile, with the announcement
that. beginning tomorrow, buses of
the Washington, Virginia & Mary
land Coach Co. (the Arnold line)
Will shuttle war workers between
downtwon Washington and the
Pentagon Building during morning
and evening rush periods on what
are now the counterfiow, or dead
head" runs for these buses.
The uniform fare to be agreed on,
1t was said, will range between 131s
and IS cents a trip. A decision
already has beer reached that two
part tickets in strips of IL will be
ADOPTED as the form of fare collec-
lion. II q 1873 cent rate is approved,
strip OF IL tickets would sell for
$loO. but II the rate is established
~ ID cents, the strip would cost 81 80.
Approved by Commission.
Permission for the additional bus
service was granted today by the
Public Utilities Commission and will
add to the Pentagon Building serv-
Ices now operated by the Alexandria,
bancroft & Washington Transit Co..
the Arlington & Fairfax Motor
Transit Co. and the Capital Transit
Co.
On the counter flow runs the
Arnold buses will use the Highway
and Memorial Bridges on shuttle
runs between Tenth and E streets
NV. and the Pentagon Building. In
tne morning rush hours, $50 to $40
am, the outbound Arnold buses will
go from Tenth and E streets south
on Tenth, west on Constitution ave
nue., south on Twelfth. west on
!noependence avenue, south on
Fifteenth, east on East Basin drive
ana over United States Route No. /
over Highway Bridge to Pentagon.
On the shuttle route using Me-
mortal Bridge, the outbound morn
Ing service will be from the Wash
lngton terminal south on Tenth.
west on Constitution, south on
IWenty-thlrd street, around Lincoln
Memorial and over Memorial Bridge
In the evening inbound service
the counter-dow buses will follow
substantially the outbound routes
IN reverse. The evening rush hours
are from $50 to pm.
The uniform fare negotiations
have been carried on for several
months between a Senate subcom-
mittee on transportation headed by
Senator Burton, Republican, of Ohio.
the Regional Transportation Com
mittee OF the Office of Defense
Transportation, and representatives
OF the transit companies.
The purpose of the two-part ticket
would be to permit a Government
employe working in the Pentagon
Building for instance, to board a
Capital Transit bus or street car in
any part of the District and transfer
to Virginia bus at Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV,
without paying another fare as is
now the case.
Avoids Use Of Transfer.
Capital Transit would take the
first half of the ticket and the bus
line the other. Issuance of trans
fers would be avoided under such
an arrangement.
Adoption of either the $1.60 on
$1.80 strip ticket plan would repre-
sent fare reduction for a large
number of Government workers in
the Arlington County Federal Build
ings.
The fares now vary from 1874
cents to 20 cents trip, depending
on the route and whether cash or
tokens are used on both the Capital
Transit and the Virginia bus lines.
Employees paying 10-cent cash fare
on the Capital Transit lines and an
other 10-cent cash fare on the Vir-
ginia buses would be the greatest
beneficiaries under the uniform fare
plan.
Others now use tokens in the Dis
trict which cost Sls cents each and
pay a 10-cent cash fare on the Vir-
ginia buses
Aside from working out details for
a uniform fare, the transit COM
panies and the ODT Committee are
cooperating with Government
authorities in arranging adequate
transportation for Navy Department
employees who are to be moved to
the Pentagon Building in the next
several months.
Indications are that nearly 10000
Navy civilian workers in Washing
ton are to be shifted to the Pentagon
Building. A number of conferences
already have been held between
transit officials and Navy officers in
charge of the transfer program.