Evening star., 1953-03-06
CTC Must LIST
Skipped Runs
In Advance
PUG Orders Notice
Of Any Plans to
Alter Trip Schedules
By John w. Stepp

IlC O10UI 1CL GuUl1C OGlllGl6S
Commission today ordered the
Capital Transit Co. to notify the
commission in advance whenever
it plans to change operating
practices in such a way as to
affect scheduled transit runs.
This instruction went out as a
result of the company's failure to
let the PUG know last week end
that it would skip certain Sched-
uled trips each day in order to
reduce overtime pay to streetcar
and bus drivers.
Lawmakers Set Letter.
Text of the letter, copies of
which went to Chairman Case
and Chairman Simpson of the
State and House District Com
mittees, follows:
1T has come to the attention
of the commission that certain
operating policies or practices of
the Capital Transit Co. may have
been made which might affect
the company's service and the
maintenance of schedules which
have been approved by the COM
mission.
"You are hereby directed that,
prior to the PRONUNCIATION of any
policy or practice wh;ca might
affect reasonable service or the
maintenance of schedules and
standards of service which have
been approved by this commits
sion, you notify the commission
OF such intentions in ample time
before they are put into effect
so that the commission may
make an investigation as to
whether, in its opinion, the pub
lie interest would be adversely
affected thereby"
PUG Chairman Kenneth w.
Spencer said it has been the
transit company's practice in the
past to notify the commission
of any major policy changes. Mr..
Spencer would not comment on
the company's failure in this
instance to give such notifica-
ton.
Begin Reports on Trips.
simultaneously with release of
the letter to the press, Chairman
Spencer handed out the first of
the company'S series of daily re-
ports on the number of trips
being skipped under the new
CTC policy. The reports result
from an earlier PUG order re-
quiring the company to file daily,
instead of weekly, information
on this point.
The CTC figures show that of
nearly 1880 runs scheduled for
the rush hours last night and
this morning, two per cent of
the runs were Cancelled.
Specific figures show that in
the evening rush yesterday, q
runs were Cancelled of a total
1882 scheduled on streetcars
and buses. This mornings rush,
according to Capital Transit,
found 26 trips skipped of a total
1,241.
Cancelled Runs Listed.
Capital Transit's breakdown
Of skipped trips, by bus garages
and streetcar barns, follows:
Thursday pm. rush, garages
Brookland, S; Northern (Four-
teenth and Decatur Streets, II;
Trinidad Fifteenth and H
streets N.E0, 3; Western (Ten-
leytown), 8, and Southeastern, O.
Car barns-East Capitol street,
3; lexington, 2, and Navy
Yard, 0.
Friday morning rush, garages
S: Northern, 8;
Trinidad, 2: Western, 0, and
y.
Car Barns-East Capitol, 3;
lexington, 2, and Navy Yard, 2.
Mr.. Spencer said he will pre-
pare as soon as possible skipped
trip figures for the same periods
on the same dates last year. He
emphasized that the new daily
reporting system will go on in
definitely.
A provision of the Public Utili-
ties Act specifies fines ranging
from 5000 to $1,000 can be i'm
posed upon local utilities that
knowingly or wilfully give any
false answers" to authorized in
quirieS made of them by the PUG.