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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.

This is a separate idea from the one that D.C. Council member Kwame Brown (D-At large) proposed earlier this month, which would have merely extended an existing Circulator route along Pennsylvania Avenue SE to Southern Avenue SE. Brown’s idea was already rejected by the Public Works and Transportation Committee, though he vowed at the time that he was “committed to fighting for the first Circulator bus east of the river.”

DDOT officials told the Business Journal that they have been discussing a possible Anacostia line for weeks, and have begun meeting with the Anacostia Economic Development Corp. There’s no plan on the table for how to pay for it yet, however.