List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)
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WMATA New Flyer XN40 running on the 32 route in the "Local" scheme.
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A New Flyer DE40LFA running on the 37 in the "MetroExtra" scheme.
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Passengers board an Orion VII on the 5A "Express" bus at Rosslyn, headed for Dulles International Airport. Pictured here is 2704 (now retired), which was taken before its rehabilitation in 2012.
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WMATA Orion V 9652 (now retired) at Greenbelt station in Prince George's County, Maryland, headed for New Carrollton. Route T17 was replaced by routes G12 & G14 on December 17, 2010.
This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus. Many are the descendants of streetcar lines operated by the Capital Transit Company or its predecessors.
Current routes[]
The list of Metrobus routes has been split by region:
- List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.
- List of Metrobus routes in Maryland
- List of Metrobus routes in Virginia
Numbering[]
Most Metrobus routes follow the rules below:[1][2]
- Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C., have either a two digit number (31, 42, 64, etc.) or a letter followed by a number (A2, S2, X8, etc.).
- Metrobus routes in Montgomery County, MD, have a letter followed by a number (C4, Q4, Z6, etc.).
- Metrobus routes in Prince George's County, MD, have a letter followed by two numbers (F12, J12, P12, etc.).
- Metrobus routes in Northern Virginia have one or two numbers followed by a letter (1A, 16C, 29N, etc.).
Odd-numbered routes are typically part-time variants of even-numbered routes. At one time, odd numbered routes were express routes, but that distinction has been abandoned. Most Maryland and Washington, D.C., routes are grouped by their first digit. When this system was laid out in 1936, the following clustering was used:[citation needed]
Category | Route numbers |
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Streetcars |
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Buses in D.C. & Maryland |
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Buses in Virginia |
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Divisions[]
Division Name | Location | Routes Served[3] | City Section |
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Andrews Federal Center (A) | 7541 Andrews Federal Campus Drive, Suitland, MD 20746 | 32, 36, 96, C11, C12, C13, C14, D12, D14, H12, J12, K12, NH1 | Southeast D.C., Southern Prince George's County, Maryland |
Bladensburg (B) | 2251 26th Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20018-1405 | 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 80, B2, D4, D8, D31, D32, D33, D34, E2, G8, H2, H4, H6, H8, H9, K2, K6, K9, R1, R2, R4, S41, W45, W47, X2, X8, X9 Select Trips Only: 52, 79, S9 Weekdays Only: 54 Weekends Only: 74, D6, U4, U5, U6, U7, V8 |
Northeast and Southeast Washington D.C. |
Cinder Bed Road (C) | 7901 Cinder Bed Rd, Lorton, VA | 17B, 17G, 17K, 17M, 18G, 18J, 18P, 29G, 29K, 29N, REX | Fairfax County, Virginia |
Four Mile Run (F) | 3501 South Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22202 | 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3Y, 4B, 5A, 7A, 7M, 8W, 10A, 10B, 11C, 16A, 16C, 16E, 16G, 16H, 16Y, 21C, 22A, 22F, 23A, 23B, 23T, 25B, 26A, 28A, 28F, 38B, Metroway | Northern Virginia |
Landover (L) | 3503 Pennsy Drive in Landover | 83, 86, 89M, A12, B21, B22, B24, B27, C21, C22, C26, C27, C29, F1, F2, F4, F6, F8, F12, F13, F14, G12, G14, P12, R12, T14, T18, V12, V14 | Northern, Central, and Southern portions of Prince George's County, Maryland |
Montgomery (M) | 5400 Marinelli Road, just east of Rockville Pike in Rockville | 70, 79, C2, C4, C8, J1, J2, Q1, Q2, Q4, Q5, Q6, S2, S9, Y2, Y7, Y8, Z2, Z6, Z7, Z8 Weekdays Only: L8, T2 |
Montgomery County, Maryland |
Southern Avenue Annex (P) | Southern Avenue & Marlboro Pike, Capitol Heights, MD | Weekdays Only: D6, U4, U5, U6, U7, V2, V4, V8, W4, X3 | Southeast D.C. & the southern portion of Prince George's County, Maryland |
Shepherd Parkway (S) | 2 DC Village Lane SW | 90, 92, A2, A4, A6, A7, A8, A31, A32, A33, D51, M6, NH2, P6, P18, S35, V7, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W8, W14 Select Trips Only: B2, D12 Weekdays Only: 74 Select trips and Weekends Only: V2, V4 |
Southeast & Southwest D.C. & the southern portion of Prince George's County, Maryland |
Western (W) | 5230 Wisconsin Avenue, NW in the Friendship Heights neighborhood of the District. | 31, 33, 42, 43, 52, D2, D32, D34, E4, G2, L2, M4, N2, N4, N6, W45, W47 Select trips Only: H2, H4 Select trips and Weekends Only: 54 |
Northwest D.C. |
References[]
- Metrobus timetables, accessed October 2017.
- ^ Rowlands, DW; Alpert, David (September 20, 2018). "8W? 30N? U7? How Metrobus numbers came to be". Greater Greater Washington. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ Malouff, Dan. "Here's what that bus route number means". Retrieved November 22, 2019.
- ^ "WMATA Routes by Division (March 14, 2021)". public.tableau.com. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
Notes[]
Categories:
- Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)
- Lists of bus routes in the United States
- Washington, D.C., transportation-related lists