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Old DASH sign on a lamppost on Duke St. DASH is the public bus system for the city of Alexandria, Virginia.DASH provides bus service within the City of Alexandria, and connects with Metrobus, Metrorail, Virginia Railway Express, Amtrak and other local bus systems.
The area was originally called Belhaven, believed to be in honor of a Scottish patriot, John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton.The town was formally named Alexandria in 1779, after Captain Philip Alexander II (1704–1753) and Captain John Alexander (1711–1763), who donated the land to assist in the development of the area.
During holidays, a Saturday Supplemental schedule is added to bring more service to the REX. All runs take place on board on any bus from Cinder Bed Division. However, it was previously operated by using the 2008 New Flyer DE40LFA diesel-electric hybrid buses (6301–6312), and were painted in a blue-and-gold REX paint scheme.
Many current routes operate under former streetcar routes. The streetcars provided the main transportation in the Northern Virginia area from the 1800s to the 1940s. [3] The Alexandria, Barcroft and Washington Transit Company (AB&W) and the Washington Virginia & Maryland Coach Company (WV&M) operated some of the routes prior to 1973.
Before the electric trolleys, there was the horsecar line of the Alexandria Passenger Railway (APR), which served Alexandria, Virginia, for just over a year in the 1870s.. Starting on July 12, 1873, the APR ran two horse-drawn cars on tracks from the Ferry Wharf, west on King Street and then south on Peyton Street to the old stone bridge over Hooff's R
Melinda Martinez, Alexandria Town Talk November 11, 2024 at 5:07 AM Bus Stop Brews a fully functioning mobile coffee shop open from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8.a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
The National Harbor–Alexandria Line, designated as Route NH2, is a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between King Street–Old Town station of the Blue and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro and National Harbor via the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The line operates every 30 minutes at all times.
The wooden interior of a restored 1924 streetcar at the corner of West Holly and E streets in the Old Town district of Bellingham, Wash., on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.