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The Georgia Avenue Limited Line, designated as Route 79, is a daily bus route that is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Silver Spring station of the Red Line of the Washington Metro and Archives station of the Green and Yellow lines of the Washington Metro. The line operates every 10–12 minutes at all times.
MetroExtra routes follow the same numbering as local Metrobus routes. Although, they typically end with a 9. MetroExtra routes in Washington, D.C. have either a two digit number (59, 79) or a letter followed by a 9 (S9, X9) MetroExtra routes in Montgomery County, MD have a letter followed by a 9 (K9, S9, Q9)
Metrobus routes in Northern Virginia have one or two numbers followed by a letter (1A, 16C, 29N, etc.). Odd-numbered routes are typically part-time variants of even-numbered routes. At one time, odd numbered routes were express routes, but that distinction has been abandoned. Most Maryland and Washington, D.C., routes are grouped by their first ...
Route 54 discontinued service between L'Enfant Plaza and Federal Triangle on June 26, 2016. [16] Route 53 was discontinued on December 17, 2017, and replaced by Route 54, which in turn, was truncated to Metro Center on the same date. [17] Route 52 was rerouted to 12th Street & Maine Avenue SW via The Wharf on December 17, 2017. [17]
Line 79 was cancelled in December 2021 as part of Metro's network restructuring through the NextGen Bus Plan. Service east of Rose Hill Transit Center to Arcadia was retained and renumbered to Line 179, with service to Downtown LA being merged into Line 78.
The Route 79 project is currently in its second stage of a four-stage project. It is due to be completed in 2026. Dan Medeiros can be reached at dmedeiros@heraldnews.com. Support local journalism ...
This list of metro systems includes ... The system length of a metro network is the sum of the lengths of all routes in the rail ... [79] 2,109.2 (2023) [R ...
The MTA announced in June 2012 that the S79 would be converted to a Select Bus Service route, as the S79 was Staten Island's busiest bus route. [5] On September 2, 2012, the S79 was converted to an SBS route, and three-quarter of the stops were eliminated. It was the first bus route in Staten Island to do so.