DC Circulator

On April 18, 2007, a driver of a bus was off-duty and had left the bus to attend to other business. While he was out of the bus, the bus rolled back and crashed into a Georgetown University building. One woman was injured.[15]

The east-west line connects Georgetown with Union Station and operates primarily along Wisconsin Avenue, K Street, and Massachusetts Avenue. Eastbound, the bus starts on Wisconsin Avenue at Whitehaven Street in Georgetown. Westbound, the route starts in the bus level of the Union Station parking garage.[16]

This line operates between Woodley Park, Adams Morgan, and McPherson Square via the 14th Street Corridor.[16] Part of this route replaced the discontinued Metrobus 98 route.[17]

This line operates from Dupont Circle primarily via M Street through Georgetown and travels over the Key Bridge to Rosslyn.[16] This route replaced the former Georgetown Metro Connection "blue bus."[18]

This line connects Eastern Market and L'Enfant Plaza through Navy Yard & the DC Wharf District.[19]

This line operates from the Congress Heights and Union Station east of the Anacostia River via Barracks Row on Capitol Hill.[16] This route replaced the discontinued Metrobus 94 line.[20]

This 15-stop loop line operates from Union Station to most of the major attractions on or near the Mall, including ones that are at some distance from Metro stations, such as the Lincoln, Jefferson, World War II, FDR, and Martin Luther King. Jr. memorials.[21]

This line operates from Woodley Park station to Smithsonian National Zoo without having to walk, deal with traffic, and expensive parking fees during the summer seasons. The service first run operated between May 4, 2019 and September 30, 2019. DC Circulator plans on operating the line again during summer seasons.[22]

Until 2011 this line ran only on summer weekends, serving the National Mall in a loop along Constitution Avenue, 1st Street NE/SE, Independence Avenue, and 17th Street NW/SW.[8] The line was replaced by the more extensive National Mall route in June 2015.[9]

A north-south line connected the Washington Convention Center with the Southwest Waterfront and operated primarily along 7th and 9th streets, which have bus lanes. The service was eliminated on September 25, 2011 due to low ridership. A new Metrobus route, 74, was opened on September 23, 2011 along the 7th Street corridor between the Washington Convention Center and the Waterfront neighborhood, replacing the Circulator line and the eliminated portion of Metrobus Routes 70 and 71 from Pennsylvania Avenue to the South. The 74 bus costs more to ride and offers less frequent service, but the District officials said the ridership on the Circulator was too low to continue it.[7]

This line operated from the Potomac Avenue Metro station and Skyland Town Center east of the Anacostia River via Barracks Row on Capitol Hill.[16] It was replaced by the Congress Heights – Union Station route on June 24, 2018 replacing Metrobus Route 94.

This line connected Union Station and Navy Yard through Capitol Hill, with extended service on Washington Nationals game days.[16] This route was replaced by the Eastern Market – L’Enfant Plaza route on June 24, 2018. Also this route replaced the discontinued Metrobus N22 line.