WMATA announced this morning that the new S9 Metrobus route, offering express bus service along 16th Street, will launch on Monday, March 30. A ribbon cutting ceremony has also been scheduled for 10 a.m. that morning, at the stop at 16th Street and Columbia Rd. NW. The S9 route will be serviced by blue and silver hybrid-electric buses, which will be branded separately with “express” labels to differentiate them from the S1, S2 and S4 routes.
The S9 will run every 10 minutes in peak periods on weekdays, from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The express service will stop at the following locations only, with an estimated time savings versus the regular S buses of about 8 minutes:
- Silver Spring Metro
- Eastern Avenue
- Kalmia Road
- Somerset Place/Sheridan Street
- Missouri Avenue
- Colorado Avenue
- Buchanan Street
- Spring Road
- Park Road
- Irving Street/Columbia Road
- Euclid Street
- U Street
- P Street
- M Street
- K Street
- 13th/14 Streets
