Switching Gears

Release Date: Thursday, October 1st 2009

Get ready for a few changes on the DC Circulator. Stops are being added and dropped along a few routes beginning Sunday, October 4.
 
Service on the Smithsonian-National Mall Loop, currently operating on weekends only, will be discontinued during the fall and winter months when the tourism season ebbs. Service ends Sunday, October 4, and will resume in late March or early April. Extra stops are being added on the two new Circulator routes added in April: Union-Station-Navy Yard Metro and Woodley Park/Adams Morgan-McPherson Square Metro. Service also will be modified slightly near Union Station, with buses traveling to Navy Yard Metro taking a different route. The Convention-Center-SW Waterfront route is unchanged.

“We regret having to make any cuts in service,” said Gabe Klein, director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). “It was not a decision we took lightly and the reductions were targeted to affect the fewest riders and produce the greatest savings.” For more information about the Circulator routes, visit www.dccirculator.com or call 202.962.1423. Information is also available at www.ddot.dc.gov.