Metro News Release

For immediate release: April 9, 2010

Rider survey planned for Metrobus U Street-Garfield Line

Transportation agencies to conduct study to improve bus service

Metro, in partnership with the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, will distribute a 19-question survey to bus passengers at high ridership stops along the U Street-Garfield Metrobus Line from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 14.

The survey is part of a comprehensive study of the 90s Line, which includes lines 90, 92 and 93, and extends from Adams Morgan along 18th Street, NW, U Street, Florida Avenue, and 8th Street Northeast and Northwest. Across the Anacostia River the routes split along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue (90), Good Hope Road (92), Naylor Road (92) and Alabama Avenue (92).

Information from the study will help Metro identify problems and develop solutions to improve bus service in this corridor.

Metro staff will make additional survey forms available for riders in schedule racks and on overhead racks inside 90s Line buses for passengers who don’t receive a survey when boarding.

Passengers can return completed surveys in marked pouches on buses or mail them in postage-paid envelopes that are provided.

With the rider survey, a dedicated website has been established at www.metrobus-studies.com to provide information about the comprehensive study. The study also will involve public meetings in May. Metro will announce the dates, times, and locations of the meetings when they are scheduled.

Media contact for this news release: Reggie Woodruff or Lisa Farbstein at 202-962-1051.

News release issued at 9:14 am, April 9, 2010.