Photo by M.V. Jantzen

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.

Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans and DDOT Director Gabe Klein gathered at Wisconsin Avenue and Whitehaven Place NW this morning to make the announcement in person, in a sort of odd show of force for what is really a rather small transportation decision. The Georgetown Metropolitan‘s write-in campaign to save the existing route appears to have given the three men reason enough to want to appear to be heroes, there to save the day.

“After further review, this administration has determined the route along Wisconsin Avenue is necessary to the residents, businesses and workers who rely on it as an economically reliable transportation choice,” is the official statement from Mayor Fenty.

Evans acknowledged the residents who wrote in support of saving the route even more directly: “The great outpouring of support from the Circulator ridership has once again ensured the continued service of this vital transportation option along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor,” Evans opined in his statement.