Photo by fritzheier

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.

But Flickr contributor fritzheier spotted a training Circulator bus traveling down 14th Street NW on Monday, so we bugged DDOT spokesperson Karyn LeBlanc again today. Got any more goods on the new Circulators?

“We are running training on the proposed routes in advance of a launch at the end of March/beginning of April,” LeBlanc said.

DDOT still won’t release the actual list of stops yet, but LeBlanc did offer us this one little scooplet: Circulator will be launching a new web site around the same time, which will include updated scheduling information.

For more on the future of Circulator tech, read this Greater Greater Washington post on Circulator’s plans to adopt a separate application for mobile devices.

We’ll be sure to report the official Circulator announcements just as soon as DDOT releases them.