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Map updated on March 30. There were a couple of small errors in the map posted to the DC Circulator site on March 27.
The two new DC Circulator routes have been updated on the DC Circulator web site. You may now download a PDF that includes all five Circulator routes.
DDOT spokesperson Karyn LeBlanc confirmed that the map posted on the site late Friday is accurate, and that the new routes will begin with soft launches for the Woodley Park/McPherson Square route on Sunday, March 29, and the Union Station/Navy Yard route on Monday, March 30, with a formal announcement and press event set for Wednesday, April 1.
Full list of stops indicated on the map after the jump.
The Woodley Park/Adams Morgan - McPherson Square Metro route, marked in green, will stop at the following locations Sunday through Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to Midnight, and Friday and Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 3 a.m.:
- Woodley Park/Adams Morgan Zoo Metro
- 18th & Columbia
- 16th & Harvard/16th & Irving
- Columbia Heights Metro
- 14th and U Streets NW
- 14th and P Streets NW
- McPherson Square
That's only seven stops (not counting the multiple pick-up spots indicated at McPherson Square), making this Circulator line the most "limited stop" bus to be operated in the District.
The Union Station - Navy Yard Metro route, marked in blue, will stop at the following locations on weekdays from 6 a.m. - 7 p.m., with extended service on Nationals game days (presumably not on weekend game days, however):
- Union Station
- 1st Street and Maryland Ave. NE
- 2nd Street and Independence Ave. SE/3rd Street and Pennsylvania Ave. SE
- Eastern Market
- 8th and G Streets SE
- 8th and L Streets SE
- 6th and M Streets SE
- 3rd/4th and M Streets SE
- Navy Yard Metro
That makes nine stops for the Circulator route that goes to Nationals Park.
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Bytes cannot express my excitement for the new circulator route.
Nice. Saw a bus on a training run on Calvert St this week. Very exciting.
I might be the only person that will use the Navy Yard route. They should install a Lazy Boy for me.
{lights cigarette}
"Soft launches" are my specialty.
{deep, long drag on cigarette. slowly exhale....}
The map will be very helpful for potential street corners to keep McGruff away from.
The new route has a stop 100 ft from my apartment door! Whole Foods, here I come!
Meh. Not happy about losing weekend bus service to the Nationals.
They should change the name of this new circulator route to Whole Foods Express. Now, we DC yuppies in areas like Mt Pleasant can finally feel at peace with our hoods. One question though: Why so few stops? I understand the need to keep that bus moving without stopping every block, but the handful of stops seems too severe.
While on the one hand I applaud an option that will get me up 14th street faster than the metrobuses, the stark difference between the new adams morgan-mcpherson route and the older routes is remarkable.
Perhaps they will add stops after the route is established?
My guess is that they didn't have the money (or didn't want to) on add'l buses. In order to maintain the so-called ten minute headways, they have to limit the number of stops so they can keep the buses on schedule (especially if more people start riding the stubby little things)
The limited stops are a stroke of genius, and very welcome. It's so easy to give in to pressure and put in extra stops, for instance, between P and U on 14th. By the time you do that for every interval, you've doubled or tripled the number of stops. This will be a very fast and efficient way to get up/downtown for those of us who live in the central part of DC. I'll try to give it a shot tomorrow if they are indeed starting on the 29th.
Hear, hear. Finally, a bus line that will actually get you to your destination in a reasonable time frame. The ridiculous number of stops on mosy Metrobuses make for an infuriatingly lengthy ride. As someone who lives smack in between two of the Circulator stops, I can tell you that I don't mind having to walk a few blocks to pick up the bus if it means I don't have to stop-start at every single block. Hooray for this!
The best thing since the extension of the Yellow Line, this news. As God is my witness, I'll never take the 50 series again.
{snufs out cigarette butt in overflowing ashtray. lights another cigarette immediately.}
holy shit, am I ever witty.
{deep, long drag on cigarette. holds it. holds it. slowly exhales}
Hello, welcome to the internet, where third person narative in block quote style is unnecessary. I think you may have gotten lost on your way to Shelly's, where you'd probably be about as popular as Newt Gingrich at a pro-choice rally. Nonetheless I'd be happy to give you directions.
The strange little arrows on the map coming out of each M logo for a Metro stop confused me, but then I figured out that they were illustrating the specific location of each exit along with the orientation of the escalators. But that still doesn't explain the extraneous M at 11th St NW & Vermont Ave NW.
Why does the Navy Yard one go multiple blocks out of the way before going to Union Station? Instead of logically continuing up 2nd St (after it passes the Supreme Court) to Union Station it goes about 7 blocks out of the way, up Constitution and Louisiana. But there are no additional stops along that route.
Why add all that time to a Navy Yard to Union Station route?
Probably someone on the DDOT board of directors lives on that seven-block out-of-the-way stretch.
Ha ha! Just kidding. Nobody on DDOT's board of directors actually lives in DC.
Non-Congressional vehicles are not allowed on that block next to the Senate office buildings. There are lots of Capitol Police and those kind of barricades that rise out of the street in the way. Better to just avoid all that. I also noticed that the Mall Loop has been extended west to 2nd st. NE to the Capitol Visitors' Center. Score another one for fat tourists!
Pray they circulate a bit faster than the current routes - they may have limited stops, but the drivers are limited to a driving speed which is, at best, near-glacial.