For the first time since it launched six years ago, the D.C. Circulator will be crossing the Anacostia River and serving communities in wards 7 and 8. more ›

After a series of public meetings over the past two months, the District Department of Transportation has finally revealed the routing of the first Circulator bus which will travel across the Anacostia River. more ›

DDOT will hold another community meeting regarding a new Circulator route east of the Anacostia River tonight. more ›

The idea of extending a D.C. Circulator route across the Anacostia River for the first time, which has been floating around for about 18 months, has hit a snag. more ›

Tonight, the District Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to discuss expanding D.C. Circulator bus service across the Anacostia River for the first time. more ›

A public meeting will be held tonight to discuss the long-term future of the D.C. Circulator, including a potential fare hike and the extension and creation of new routes over the next couple of years. But the D.C. Department of Transportation has instituted some more immediate changes which will go into effect tomorrow, including the termination of service along the Smithsonian-National Gallery of Art route. more ›

Big changes are in the cards for the D.C. Circulator -- that's not news. But how much will those changes cost riders? Ah, therein lies the rub. According to reports in the Examiner and Greater Greater Washington, the District Department of Transportation is considering raising fares on the red buses to $1.50 for SmarTrip users and $2 for those paying cash. It would be the first fare increase for the Circulator since the service was initiated six years ago. more ›

The District Department of Transportation will hold its first ever semi-annual public forum to discuss Circulator service at 6:30 p.m. on March 17. Among the topics on the agenda for the evening (aside from future expansion, of course) is a proposal to shut down the Smithsonian-National Gallery of Art route, which would, in turn, free up money to extend service on the Union Station-Navy Yard route through 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday from April to September. more ›

There is little doubt that the Circulator, the public-private venture which launched in 2005 with two routes, has been a massive success, expanding service several times over its five-year-plus lifespan and developing into a useful alternative and supplement to Metrobus. With such success, it's understandable that many would like to see more Circulator service in the District of Columbia. But where would that additional service be best placed? Based on data collected from rider surveys and town halls, DDOT now has a pretty good idea. more ›

Have you ever wondered how many people ride the Circulator, how often it shows up on time or even how much fare money the public-private venture brings in? Well, that basic data is now just one click away -- the District Department of Transportation unveiled CirculatorDashboard today, a new website which will allow transit and data nerds like yours truly to easily keep an eye on the performance of D.C.'s shiny red buses. more ›

Last month, we told you that the blue Metro Connection buses which run between Rosslyn and Dupont Circle would switch over to Circulator status on September 1. But the beginning of service has been pushed up slightly, and will begin this Sunday. more ›

Some neighborhoods get all the luck when it comes to efficient bus service. more ›

The District Department of Transportation has issued a new set of guidelines for bringing strollers onto the city's Circulator buses. The transportation department is attempting to "clear up any confusion about when and if strollers are allowed on the Circulator," following incidents in January that saw First Transit, the private contractor that runs the Circulator, suddenly and without warning decide to ban unfolded strollers. more ›

Planning on heading to the National Mall for today's Cherry Blossom/Kite Festival doubleheader? If so, you may have forgotten that the Circulator's weekend-only Smithsonian - National Gallery of Art Loop will be back after an off-season break beginning today between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The loop runs along Constitution and Independence Avenues between 1st and 17th Streets NW, and just might come in handy for tired feet who refuse to embark on yet another trip across America's front yard. more ›

The D.C. Circulator will start back up running its loop around the National Mall for the season on March 27, the Examiner reports. more ›

Bus trips on the DC Circulator can now be mapped within Google Transit, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced today. The move means that anyone attempting to get directions from Google Maps within the city will now see Circulator routes when selecting "By public transit" as the sorting option. more ›

Pair of updates on bus service for you. more ›

The District Department of Transportation is considering creating a brand new Circulator line that would travel between Barracks Row and the Anacostia and Congress Heights Metro stations, Jonathan O'Connell reports in the Washington Business Journal. more ›

As the Examiner reported today, the D.C. Council's Public Works and Transportation Committee on Tuesday voted to approve a plan to expand Circulator service to connect Rosslyn and Dupont Circle. But a proposal from At-large D.C. Council member Kwame Brown to extend the Circulator bus route along Pennsylvania Avenue SE to Southern Avenue SE was rejected by the committee. more ›

Naturally, we highly recommend taking public transportation on New Year's Eve to avoid (and not become one of) the drunk drivers on the road. Metro announced today they'll have extended service on New Year's Eve, opening at 5 a.m. like a regular weekday and staying open until 2 a.m. For the walk-of-shamers, stations open again at 7 a.m. and close at 2 a.m., running on a modified Sunday schedule since ridership is usually pretty low on New Year's Day. more ›

The folks at NextBus have just released an application for the BlackBerry, available for $2.99 at this link. It appears to work somewhat similarly to the iPhone version, which we reviewed earlier this year. BlackBerry users, be sure to let us know how it works for you. more ›

Following the introduction earlier this year of Where's My Bus?, the real-time mobile bus arrival application for the DC Circulator bus system, today the District Department of Transportation announced the launch of its own Circulator iPhone app, available for download for $0.99 from the iTunes Store. more ›

It feels like it was only a couple weeks ago that the District Department of Transportation confirmed that they would be altering the Georgetown Circulator bus route so that it no longer traveled north on Wisconsin Ave. And the official announcement of the change, wasn't that just last week? Yes, and, oh yeah, that's right. But this morning, city officials announced that they have changed their minds, and the current Circulator route will stay intact. more ›

Last week, we reported that the Georgetown/Union Station route of the popular Circulator bus would cease traveling up Wisconsin Ave. beginning Oct. 4, and Monday the District Department of Transportation announced several other route changes to the Circulator buses. The changes will result in the complete cancellation of the National Mall loop during the off-season, plus the loss or addition of service to some stops on other routes. more ›

The Georgetown/Union Station route of the popular Circulator bus is slated to cease traveling up Wisconsin Ave. to Whitehaven St. before it turns around, DDOT spokesperson John Lisle confirmed today. more ›

While Metrobus users have been eagerly awaiting the official July re-launch of NextBus, DDOT and Mayor Adrian Fenty announced today that Circulator riders now have a mobile application, dubbed "Where's My Bus?", that allows smartphone users to track Circulator buses in real time. All you have to do is go to http://circulator.dc.gov/ from any mobile device (the url works in any browser, really), select the Circulator route and bus stop, and it'll tell you where the closest bus is. more ›

The "soft" part of the launch of the city's new Circulator bus routes came to an end today, as D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), and DDOT acting director Gabe Klein all came out to 18th Street and Columbia Road NW this morning for an official ceremony to kickoff the new bus lines. more ›

On Friday, DCist reported that the two new Circulator bus routes had been set for a soft launch starting today. At the time, the posted schedule information indicated that the Union Station–Navy Yard Metro route would only be in service on weekdays from 6 a.m.–7 p.m., with extended service on Nationals game days—but not, we presumed, on weekend Nationals game days. It turns out that that is incorrect: DDOT spokesperson Karyn LeBlanc has since confirmed that the new Circulator line will operate on weekend days when the Nats are playing at home. "Any day there is a game we will run service, including weekends," LeBlanc said. "On a weekend day with a game we will run service all day from 8 a.m. to either 7 p.m. or midnight, depending on how late the game is." more ›

We've been pestering DDOT for more details on the two new Circulator routes the city has planned, one that would travel through Adams Morgan, Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, U Street and McPherson Square, replacing the 25 cent 98 bus that used to go between U Street and Adams Morgan, and another that would run from Union Station, through Barracks Row to Nationals Park, replacing the N22 bus. Last week, the Washington Business Journal's Jonathan O'Connell dubbed the new routes "Party Lines,", and offered up a homemade Google map of the proposed Adams Morgan route. But with no official routes or stop listings yet announced by DDOT, only vague dates for when they'll begin running (sometime this spring?), and zero information about them available on dccirculator.com, reliable details on the new Circulator lines are still hard to come by. more ›