Metro News Release

For immediate release: August 3, 2004

Metro recognizes its Metrobus drivers as part of the Million Mile Club

This month, The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) is pleased to recognize the 78 bus drivers who have operated their buses safely for more than one million and two million miles without an operating incident or accident.

" It is an honor for this transit agency to recognize these drivers for their safe exemplary record," said Jack Requa, Metro’s Chief Operating Officer for Metrobus. " While Metro always prides itself on its safety record, for these drivers to accomplish this feat today is exceptional. Given the amount of automobile traffic there is in the Washington, D.C. area today than 15 years ago, and to safely navigate major city streets and side roads, these drivers deserve recognition."

Metrobus celebrated its 30th anniversary in February 2003. Since the time the United States Congress directed WMATA to takeover the region’s four private bus companies in 1973 and create the Metrobus system, more than 1 billion miles of service have been operated and more than 3.50 billion passengers have used the system. Metrobus is not only the largest bus service in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, it is the fifth largest nationally based on fleet size.

Metrobus operates ten full service operating divisions in the metropolitan area. In the District of Columbia, the major divisions are Bladensburg, Northern, Western, and Southeastern. In Maryland, the major divisions are Montgomery, Landover, and Southern Avenue. In Northern Virginia, the major divisions are Arlington, Four Mile Run and Royal Street. On the proceeding pages are the names of Metrobus drivers who have achieved this special safety honor, their reporting divisions, how many safe miles they have achieved, and their years of service at Metro. (See list of the Metrobus drivers)

News release issued on August 3, 2004.