Evening star., 1945-08-30
Capital Transit 10 End
Saturday Rush Runs
Starting September IS

Cancellation of "rush-hour" troll
ley and bus routes on SATURDAYS,
starting September Is, to Govern
ment building areas, was announced
today by the Capital Transit Co.
The change will be made at the
same time that numerous Govern
ment agencies start 4O-hour, five
day week, a spokesman said, and
will not affect normal routes. The
change will be in effect only on
Saturdays, when shortening of
working hours will curtail the need
for transportation, he added.
Schedules will be further modi-
ned as surveys show certain routes
are no longer needed. From Mon
days through Fridays the schedules
will remain uninterrupted.
Regular Routes to Continue.
The company said "rush-hour"
schedules to be curtailed on Satur-
days would be those operated be-
tween and $50 o'clock each Sat-
urday mosning and from to 7
o'clock Saturday evening. Regular
routes and schedules to the areas
affected will continue. Routes to be
curtailed are those serving Govern
ment agencies in the Southwest
Mall, where are located the Agricul-
ture and Labor Departments and
offices of the OPA and WPB. the
Pentagon and Potomac Park.
Fni1nUinu q yffct,
schedules discontinued during Sat-
urdays:
Route 13, Rosslyn to Southwest
Mall; route IT, Rosslyn to Seventh
Street Wharves; route 10, Seat
Pleasant to Potomac Park; route
%, Cabin John to Southwest Mall:
route 20, Union Station to Potomac
Park; route 80, Seventeenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue Sc. to
Potomac Park; route 80, Friendship
Heights to Southwest Mall; route
43, Mount Pleasant to Southwest
Mall; route IS, Mount Pleasant to
Bureau of Engraving; route 80,
Friendship Heights to Potomac
Park; route At, Mount Pleasant to
"eventh Street Wharves: route 40.
~)unt Pleasant to Potomac Park.
Route So, Fourteenth and Colo
rado to Southwest Mall; route 81,
Fourteenth and Colorado to Seventh
Street Wharves; route So, Four
teenth and Colorado to Potomac
Park; route 63, Eleventh and Mon
roe to Southwest Mall.
Route 10, Georgia and Alaska to
Potomac Park; route 70, Takoma to
Potomac Park; route 70, Soldiers
Home to Potomac Park; route IS.
Beltsville to Bureau of Engraving:
route 85, Brookland to Bureau of
Engraving.
Discontinued Bus Schedules.
Bus schedules discontinued during
rush hours on Saturday are:
Route Al, Congress Heights to Po-
tomac Park; route AL, Livingston to
Potomac Park: route Al, Fort Drum
TO Potomac Park; route AL, Bellevue
70 Potomac Park; route A3, Boiling
Field to Tenth and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
Route AS, Naval Air Station to
Tenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV; route AT, Naval Maga-
zine to Tenth street and PennSyl-
vania avenue NV; route fD1, Glover
Park to Potomac Park: Route HI,
Bladensburg and South Dakota to
General Accounting Office; route
L5, Chevy Chase Circle to Potomac
Park; route nj, Wisconsin avenue
and Fessenden street to Potomac
Park.
Route OIL, Wisconsin and Western
avenues to Burdette road; route Pl.
Petworth to Potomac Park; route
q, Seventh street and Constitution
avenue to Pentagon Building; route
RI, Potomac Park to Pentagon
Building; route 81, Georgia and
Alaska avenues to Potomac Park:
route vi, Fourth and p streets S.W.
to Buzzard Point.
Route As, Lincoln Park to Bureau
OF Engraving; route IS, Thirteenth
and D streets NE. to Bureau OF En-
craving; route 40, Lincoln Park to
Potomac Dark