Evening star., 1949-02-02
Hi||crestF Fights
Southeast Bus
Route Changes
Spokesman Soy PIon
Benefits Other Areas
At Their Expense

east Washington was attacked by
Hillcrest residents at a Public Utili-
ties Commission hearing today on
the grounds that it benefits other
|neighborhoods at their expense.
Spokesman for citizens living in
Hillcrest declared the proposed
changes would rob Hillcrest and
other areas of existing bus service
in order to provide service for other
sections no more thickly populated.
About 100 Southeast residents at
tended the hearing.
The Capital Transit plan would:
l. Extend operation of the route
Wa Portland street busline from
Eleventh place and Alabama avenue
Sc. to Thirty-sixth place and
thence, via the loop of the present
CO bus terminal, south on Thirty
sixth street, west on Bangor street
and north on Thirty fourth street.
This would remove the Trenton ter
race portion of the line and make
unnecessary operation of the pres
ent c. line between Alabama ave-
nue. and Naylor road and the ter
minal at Thirty-sixth and Bangor
streets.
Would Extend Shipley Terrace Line.
Q. Extend operation of the present
W. Shipley terrace bus line from
its present terminus near Twenty
fifth street and Naylor road Sc,
north along Naylor road, Twenty
fifth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to Commodore Barney Circle,
and designate this route as ca
Shipley terrace busline. This route,
plus the Naylor Gardens line, would
then constitute one branch of the
Solsa Bridge lines.
8. Discontinue the route ca
| Thirty-sixth street and Alabama
avenue bus line as such. Extension
OF the WA Portland street-Ala-
bama avenue bus line would cover
the part of this route that would
be discontinued and the present
W. Shipley terrace line would be
renamed.
4. The plan proposes to serve
Trenton place as part of the opera
ton Of the Wheeler road bus line
route V-8. The proposal is to ex-
tend operation of the Wheeler road
bus line in such a way that buses.
when completing trips along Wheel
er road to Barnaby terrace and
having returned to the stand on
Raleigh place, then would make
trips from that terminal via Nichols
avenue, Portland street, Seventh
street, Alabama avenue to Eleventh
place and south to the present ter
minal of the Trenton place line. It
then would return over the regular
route to the Raleigh place terminal
, This line would be named W. and
I. the V-8 line would be discontinued
as such.
Extension Suggested.
Company representatives said
they had been requested to provide
service in the vicinity of Alabama
avenue and Fifteenth street Sc. by
the eld-Douglass Heights Citi-
zens' Association for the benefit Of
residents Of Savannah Heights and
Camp Simms housing developments.
1t was suggested that the present
service to Shipley terrace be ex-
tended to Savannah Heights and
Camp Simms.
H. F. Hastings, Hillcrest resi-
dent, testified that the proposed
changes in the CO line would ex-
tend service to Shipley terrace at
the expense of Hillcrest, which he
termed an older, more established
neighborhood.
Malcolm Littlefield, 2301 Con-
gress street, of the Shipley Terrace
Citizens Association, replied that he
had no objection to Hillcrest retain-
ing its present service, but said that
Shipley terrace was badly in need
of direct route to downtown trans
portation lines and to Boiling Air
Base and st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Extensive Study Made.
Dean j. Locke, staff engineer for
the transit company, who pointed
out that all the proposed changes
were confined to southeast WASH
ington on the other side of the Ana
costa River, said the changes we're
proposed after an extensive study.
He said there had been requests for
the establiShent of services in rela-
lively new communities.
Mr.. Locke said it would be imprac-
ticable to extend bus service into
the Camp Simms area because ex-
tension of any existing line would be
inefficient and costly because the
IA family units in the area are not
enough to justify extension and be-
cause only about 800 feet of Fiji
teenth street south of Alabama ave-
nue. is paved to adequately support