WMATA Updates Metrobus Detour Information Online

WMATA updated its web site late Monday afternoon with a new menu option where customers can find temporary bus detour information. The agency added the option in response to customer concerns about the Metrobus detours associated with Secret Service activity and road closures around the Hay-Adams Hotel, where President-elect Obama and his family are staying until January 15.

To access the "Short-term Detours" option on the web site, first select "Bus" from the top menu bar, and then find the "Short-term Detours" link on the lefthand sidebar. That page has now been updated with more specific detour information for each of the affected bus lines between now and Jan. 15. Metro spokesperson Steven Taubenkibel urged Metrobus riders to remember, however, that the transit agency will continue to react to Secret Service decisions during this time, so the current detour information is subject to change.

"This is all a moving target," Taubenkibel said.