Trolley to be replaced by bus service
Article from newspaper, Weston Democrat, May 1934
TROLLEY MAY BE
REPLACED HERE
BY BUS SERVICE
West Virginia Transportation
Company Will Operate on Same
Schedule Now Used by Street
Car, if West Penn Withdraws
Lines.
If the Monongahela West Penn Public Service company decides to discoпtinue its street car service between
Weston and Clarksburg, the West Virginia Transportation company will operate motor busses over the same territory, E. Z. Terrell, of Clarksburg, manager of the transportation company, announced Thursdaу.
When the Weston city counsel ordered
the West Penn to pave its street car
right of way on Main avenue with concrete, officials of the company stated
that they would apply to the Publie
Service commission to remove their
street car line between Weston and
Clarksburg.
The West Virginia Transportation
company, which is a subsidiary of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
will operate buses between Weston and
Clarksburg on the same schedule now
used by the streetcars, if the West
Penn carries out its intentions.
All towns between Weston and
Clarksburg now served by the street
car will be touched by the bus line, except Mt. Clare, and as soon as the hard
road to Clarksburg by way of Lost
Creek is completed, this town will be
made a stop.
According to Mr. Terrell's statement
the bus fare will be the same as the
present. streetcar fare with reductions
on round trip tickets. The travel time
between. Weston and Clarksburg will
be one hour or less. Large, luxurious
busses will make the trip.
Freight now handled by the street
car company will be carried by the В.&O., if the streetcar is discontinued