Evening star., 1945-09-15
Many Left Waiting
As Rush-Hour Transit
Schedules Are Cut

Rush-hour trolley and bus sched-
ules to the Southwest Mall, Bureau
of Engraving and Printing and
Potomac Park sections were discon-
tinued for the first time this morn
ing due to the shift on the part of
most Government agencies to five
day, 40-hour week.
The change, announced by the
transit company August 80. took
many persons by surprise this morn
ing and resulted in a number of
calls to newspapers and the transit
company. On some lines the fewer
leaving some persons waving fran
tically at street corners. Some were
late to work as a result of the
change.
A few of the rush-hour bus sched-
ules. however, continued to operate
to the Potomac Park area to serve
the Navy Department, which is
working on. five-and-a-half day
week.
Other Changes Planned.
Officials at the Capital Transit Co.
said today schedules will be further
modified if surveys show some are
no longer needed.
The company said rush-hour
schedules have been curtailed on
Saturdays only and the curtail-
ment is limited to those operating
between the hours 6 to $50 am.
and Al pm. Regular routes and
schedules to the areas affected will
continue, officials said.
A few minor changes had been
made in the new program since it
was announced, transit officials
said. In addition to continuing
. limited service on three routes to
Potomac Park for Navy Depart
ment personnel, bus route OIL, Wis
conSin and Western avenues to Bur-
dette road, which had previously
been announced as one of those
to be Cancelled, continued it's rush.
hour service.
Trolley Schedules Also Cut.
The following streetcar schedules
have been Cancelled:
Routes 13, Rosslyn to Southwest
Mall; II, Rosslyn to Seventh street
wharves; 10, Sea Pleasant to Po-
tomac Park; %, Cabin John to
Southwest Mall; 30, Union Station
to Potomac Park; 33, Friendship
Heights to Southwest Mall; 80, Sew
enteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. to Potomac Park, also
80, Friendship Heights to Potomac
Park: 43, Mount Pleasant to South
west Mall; As, Mount Pleasant to
Bureau of Engraving. also As, Lin
coin Park to Bureau of Engraving
and As. Thirteenth and D streets
NE. to Bureau of Engraving; Al,
Mount Pleasant to Seventh street
wharves; 49, Mount Pleasant to
Potomac Park, also 40. Lincoln Park
to Potomac Park; SO, Fourteenth
street and Colorado avenue NV.
to Southwest Mall; ST, Fourteenth
and Colorado to Seventh street
wharves; SO, Fourteenth and Colo
RADIO to Potomac Park; SO, Elev-
enth and Monroe streets NV. to
Southwest Mall; 70, Georgia and
Alaska avenues to Potomac Park;
also 70, Takoma Park to Potomac
Park, and 70, Soldiers Home to Po-
tomac Park; IS, Beltsville, Md, to
Bureau of Engraving; also IS,
Brookland to Bureau of Engraving
Bus schedules discontinued are
(asterisk denotes limited service to
be continued for benefit of Navy
Department. -----..
Routes A1*, Congress Heights to
Potomac Park also Al, Livingston
to Potomac Park; Al, Fort Drum to
Potomac Park, and AL, Bellevue to
Potomac Park; A3, Boiling Field to
Tenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue NV; AS, Naval Air Station to
Tenth and Pennsylvania; AT, Navai
Magazine to Tenth and Pennsyl-
vania; D1, Glover Park to Potomac
Park; HI, Blandensburg road and
South Dakota avenue to General
Accounting Office; L5*, Chevy Chase
Circle to Potomac Park; Nj, Wis
consin avenue and Fessenden street
to Potomac Park; P1, Petworth to
Potomac Park; O., Seventh street
and Constitution avenue to Pentagon
Building; S1*, Georgia and Alaska
avenues to Potomac Park. and vi,
Fourth and P streets S.W. to Buzzard
Point.