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The streetcars provided the main transportation in the Washington, D.C. area from the 1800s to the 1960s. [3] DC Transit would also operate on the former streetcar routes when the Streetcars ended service. In 1973, WMATA acquired DC Transit along with other bus companies to form its current Metrobus system. [4]
WMATA Orion V 9652 (now retired) at Greenbelt station in Prince George's County, Maryland, headed for New Carrollton. Route T17 was replaced by routes G12 & G14 on December 17, 2010. This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus.
The busiest station in the system in 2023 was Metro Center, with more than 3.9 million passenger entries over the course of the year. [8] Rosslyn was the busiest station in Virginia, while Silver Spring was the busiest in Maryland. The system's 10 busiest stations are all located in Washington.
On March 26, 1940, the first bus entered the terminal at 12:01. All buses from the Greyhound Lines, Peninsula Bus Company and the Blue Ridge Bus Company would arrive and depart from this terminal. [3] All buses entered the terminal from 11th Street NW and exited on 12th Street NW. [3]
Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. [2] There are 269 bus routes serving 11,129 stops, including 2,554 bus shelters. [2]
Metrobus is a bus service operated by Metro, consisting of 176 bus lines serving 12,301 stops, including 3,133 bus shelters and nearly every Washington Metro station. In fiscal year 2006, Metrobus provided 131 million trips, 39% of all Washington Metro trips. [ 14 ]
The DC Circulator was a bus system in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia Department of Transportation operated the service in a public–private partnership with RATP Dev . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The L1 begins [Note 1] at the Potomac Park apartments at 18th and C Streets. It jogs to Constitution Avenue via 18th and 20th Streets, and turns right on 23rd Street.The route proceeds through Foggy Bottom and the campus of the George Washington University until Washington Circle, where it switches to New Hampshire Avenue for just a few blocks.