Evening star., 1943-02-06
PUC Bus Order
Trims Services
For ) Areas
Tokomo, Petworth,
ChiIIum Heights to
Be Affected Feb. 28

Be Affected Feb. %
Major reroutings and partial
elimination of bus services from
Takoma, Chillum Heights and Pet
worth areas were ordered today by
the District Public Utilities Commits
sion as means of saving buses
rubber and gasoline, in compliance
with demands of the Office of De-
fense Transportation.
The new orders, to be effective
February %, were described as but
Initial moves. with the suggestion
that further changes may be
ordered.
Protests are expected from resi-
dents of the affected areas, since the
proposals in one form or another
have been pending for many months
and have brought objections from
leaders Of various organized units.
Express Limit Shifted.
Of great Importance to bus riders
accustomed to board buses at Geor-
gla avenue and New Hampshire
avenue is the shifting of the
northern limit of the express service
on the Takoma, Chillum Heights
and Petworth buses, marked J-6,
K-4 and PA, from New Hampshire
and Georgia avenues NV north to
Varnum street at Grant Circle.
This change will mean that many
Capital Transit Co. patrons, who
heretofore have transferred to the
express buses will have to depend
on streetcars. In this connection
the commission said: The net re-
suit of this change, so far as the
riders living in the Takoma Park,
Chillum and Petworth areas are
concerned, is that they will have a
Easter service, since the express
f@cits are moveE farther north.
Those IN the lows. Petworth area.
that is. south u Grant Circle, have
an average ride of about 3 miles.
and the total time OF their travel to
the congested area by streetcar will
not be materially greater than the
average time of travel by those liv-
Ing farther north"
The commission, referring to
hearings held last October, SAID, 1T
appears from review of the evil
dence and from preliminary re-
view OF the data in the survey that
the changes proposed in the notice
of hearing, dated September Is,
1912, are necessary and proper, and
that additional changes in the fu-
ture may have to be instituted in
order to save more bus miles, but.
at the same time. to improve the
service in the Takoma Park, Chill
lum and Petworth areas. The COM
mission is therefore of the opinion
that the changes proposed in the
notice Of hearing should be insti-
tuted as an interim step in this
case without waiting for the COM
pletion Of the record"
J-1 Eliminated. |
AS to the J series (Takoma) buses
the following is ordered:
J-1 Is eliminated.
J-2 (the shuttle line running to
the Fourteenth street and Colorado
avenue streetcar line terminaD is
continued as in the past.
J-6, with some change in route,
this line now operated in base day
service, will be operated in morning
and evening rush period as well as
base day, and also will have night |
service, and will be operated on
Sundays. This is an express service
during weekdays.
-J-3 (the Ninth street foute) will
be continued as at present.
Changes in the Petworth ethe P
bus line) are as follows:
PA, an express service, will be
continued with elimination of the
large northern terminal loop and
the substitution of a small loop
turnaround via Fifth and Gallatin
streets and Kansas avenue. This
service is now base day only and in
the future will operate in the morn
Ing and evening rush period as well
as base day and also on Sunday.
P-1 Southbound Route Changed.
P-1 the route to Potomac Park
will be continued as in the past
except that it will travel, south
bound, via Vermont avenue. r
street, Connecticut avenue, Twen-
tieth street, New Hampshire avenue,
Twenty-first street to Constitution
avenue. The northbound route will
be the same as in the past. This is
rush-hour express service as in the
past.
P-2, the local running via Six
teenth street, is eliminated and the
commission said additional buses
will be added to the PA line to take
up the gaps in service demands
P-3 (the rush-hour express line
to the Veterans Bureau) is con-
tinued except that the downtown
route is cut of at the bureau at H
street NV. instead OF continuing
to the terminal at the old Post
ONCE Department Building.
AS to the K series buses (Chillum
Heights) the commission ordered:
K-4, involving minor change in
route. will go to congested sections
via Sherman avenue. Florida and
Vermont avenues to Eleventh street
NV. and then south to the terminal
in the rear of the old Post Office De-
partment Building. In the past this
has been only base day service but
now will provide service also in the
morning and evening rush hours
and at night and also on Sundays.
with express limits moved north
from Georgia and New Hampshire
avenues to Varnum street and New
Hampshire avenue at Grant Circle
K-2, local. starting at New
Hampshire avenue and Blair road
NV. and reaching the congested
section via Sixteenth street to reach
the old Post ONCE terminal, is
eliminated The commission said
additional buses will be added to the
K-4 line to make up for this loss
of service.
County Meetings Called