Evening star., 1954-10-03

More Staggered.
| Government Hours
Adoption OF an "up-to-date"
program for staggering the hours
of work Of Government en-
ployes was recommended by the
Commissioners Traffic Advisory
Board, in q statement released
yesterday.
The group, headed by Arthur
j. Sundlun. also urged the
Board Of Education to make a
study to determine the feasi-
bility of delaying the opening
of senior and Junior high schools
to $50 am.
The hours Of some Govern
ment Offices now are staggered.
The Commissioners advisors
are recommending more OF this.
Schools are not now staggered
and the advisory board recog-
nizes that there was involved a
sociological problem" one Of
ficial said.
BY this he meant that the time
when pupils go to school con-
Germs the necessary business OF
getting the youngsters up, CIV
ing them breakfast and allow
ing time for fathers. and some
times also for mothers to get
to their jobs.
Wants Serious Study.
The advisory group also rec
commended that there be a SER
ious study Of the adoption of a
zone fare system for mass trans
portation.
AL Of this Is involved in q re-
port to the Commissioners as to
the reactions of the Traffic Ad-
visory Board to a long list Of
recommendations made last Feb
ruary by a Philadelphia traffic
expert, Leslie Williams, who was
hired by the District Public
Utilities Commission to try to
find answers to Washington's
mass transportation headaches.
The advisory group strongly
supported a Williams recon-
mendation that park area drives
be made available for use for
traffic in both morning and eve
ming rush periods.
Park and planning officials
have been resisting this move.
The advisory body told the Com
missioners:
"The committee highly In
dorses this item and recommends
that buses be permitted to be
operated on the park drives
during both rush hours"
Related to this was a Williams
proposal that there be provided
outlying "car parks" where COM
muters could leave their cars
and go to town by express buses
travelling through park areas to
the central zone. :.
AS to this, the advisory board
recommended approval If the
way was cleared for use of the
park drives.
Tailoring Fares to Service.
A big question raised by Mr..
Williams was "a more equitable
fare structure" He suggested
premium fares for express serv-
ice. special fares for special
services, a central zone fare for
central district shuttle service
and mileage rates based on the
length Of the haul along main
lines.
This was the Williams phil
osphy tailoring fares to fit the
service"
The advisory board recon-
mended more study for seven
Of the 10 recommendations made
by Mr.. Williams. It approved
eight of his suggestions, rem
dered adverse reactions to three
of them and left the others up
in the air.
Balks at 10-Cent Shuttle Fare.
There was a definite mo"
to the proposal of Mr.. Williams
that there be established a 10
cent fare for a short haul CEN
tral area shuttle service. The
committee said it thought this
was not practical now. It added,
however, that 1t would be worth
study in the future when street.
car service might be converted
to buses.
The committee also opposed
the suggestion that main line
vehicles might be turned back
before they were caught in down.
town traffic jams.
The committee said 1t did not
think the williams plan was any
practicable cure.
The committee agreed in
principle that provision Of fringe
area parking lots was one
method Of reducing traffic con-
gestion. II "highly indorsed" the
South Capitol street parking lot
experiment.