Evening star., 1943-01-30
Three Bus Lines
Suspended 10
Save Gas, Tires
Bureau of Engraving
Loop, FoxhoII Village,
Zoo Routes Affected

Aiming at further curtailment O
bus mileage as requested by tht
Office of Defense Transportation K
meet the critical shortages of gaso.
line and rubber, the Public Utilitie.
Commission has ordered elimina
ton Of three District bus lines.
Under terms of the order the Fox.
hall Village line the Bureau of En-.
craving Loop and the Zoo line viii
be discontinued. Elimination of the
Eoxhan Village line will be offset
however, by extension of the Glover
Park line.
The PUG estimated early last De-
cember that elimination of the Fox
nall Village bus line would save
195,680 miles year. that the in
crease in the Glover Park line would
add $4,000 miles, leaving a net saw
ing OF l66, $50 bus miles a year. The
change becomes effective tomorrow.
Route Announced.
=. Under the new plans every third
bus on the Trinidad Glover Park
line will go on from Thirty-fifth
street and Reservoir road west to
Foxhall road, south on Foxhall road
10 Macarthur boulevard, thence west
to terminal just east of Nebraska
avenue.
With Glover Park buses running
at 6 minute intervals, it was pointed
out that the diversion of every third
bus to the FoXhall Village area will
mean that residents of that area
viii get bus service once every IS
minutes.
In regard to objections to the
change voiced by residents of the
Foxhall Village area, the PUG said:
: The present operation of the
Foxhall Village line delivers its pas
sengers during the base day and
evening to Thirty-fifth street and
Reservoir road, at which point trans
Ter is made to the Glover Park
Trinidad line which then carries the
riders along K street to Eleventh
street through the business area.
Cabin John streetcar operation car
ries these passengers along Penn
Eylvanla avenue as far as the Peace
Monument.
Transfer Facilities Cited.
However, if the destinations of
Che riders are farther north in the
business area they can transfer with
out leaving the transfer platform on
Pennsylvania avenue, west of Fiji
teenth street, to cars passing
through G street in the congested
area, or can transfer at the same
platform to cars passing along New
York avenue. 1t would seem, there
fore, that without undue hardship,
the Cabin John streetcar line would
deliver passengers residing along
this line to sll portions of the con-
gested area, and by transfer to all
other parts of the District.
"As to passengers residing farther
away from the Cabin John car line.
their needs will be better served by
making the present Foxhall Village
line branch of the Glover Park
Trinidad line, since they will then be
able to use bus line with all-day
service over the present line and the
Glover Park-Trinidad line without
transfer"
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing and Zoo bus lines are to be
eliminated Monday The bureau
line goes from Twelfth and H streets
NV. to the bureau area and the
Zoo line runs between Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV. and the Zoo.
THE Bureau of Engraving and
Printing bus line" said the order,
"can be suspended for the duration
of the emergency. as street cars at
present are serving this same area"
The PUG pointed out that the Zoo
line was acquired by Capital Transit
under the Merger Act and that it
"has been operated as a convenience
for persons desiring to visit the
National Geological Park"