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Good morning, D.C. As you’ve already read here on DCist, the city launched three brand new bus routes yesterday: the S9, offering limited-stop service along 16th Street, plus two new Circulator lines, one that travels from the Woodley Park/Adams Morgan Metro station to McPherson Square and back again, and another that takes passengers from Union Station to Navy Yard and back on weekdays (and on weekends whenever there’s a Nats game). So here’s what we want to know: did any DCist readers actually get to work faster this morning thanks to one of these new buses?

Fenty Tries to Kill ‘Em With Kindness: The occasion of yesterday’s launch of the S9 bus drew D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty out for a morning ribbon cutting, and WJLA and NBC4 were both there to pose the question everyone has been asking: where were you last week, Mr. Mayor? Duh, he won’t say, but do click through for the videotape, to see Fenty repeat himself over and over again: “I really respect and appreciate the media’s respecting my privacy.” Is that what we’re doing? Maybe if he says it enough times, it’ll suddenly become true.

Council to Probe OCTO: There was a bit of political theater at the John A. Wilson Building yesterday, as Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) and Chairman Vincent Gray (D) convened a Council briefing on the OCTO case they knew would never actually start, so that they could then issue strong statements about their intent to open an independent investigation into the matter. The Examiner covers the events of the day, noting how the U.S. Attorney asked that no witnesses participate in yesterday’s briefing, and how the Council knew about that request before they briefly convened the session anyway.

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