Metro News Release

For immediate release: August 24, 2010

Metrobus Service Evaluation Study continues with public meetings

Metro seeks customer input to help improve service on four Metrobus lines

Metro will host five public meetings between Aug. 31 and Sept. 23 as part of a Service Evaluation Study to improve Metrobus service along four bus lines. The study began in June 2010 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The purpose of the Service Evaluation Study is to review the productivity, travel time and reliability of certain bus lines and make recommendations for more efficient bus operations. Information from the public, bus operators and planners is being used to examine ridership, trip frequency, travel time, reliability and other quality-of-service indicators for the following bus lines:

• Bladensburg Road-Anacostia Line (B2)
• Oxon Hill-Suitland Line (D12, D13, D14)
• McLean-Crystal City Line (23A, 23C)
• Ballston-Bradlee-Pentagon Line (25A, 25C, 25D)

Public meetings for each line are scheduled to take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with an open house from 6:30 to 7 p.m. followed immediately by the general meeting. Meetings will take place as follows:

D12, D13, D14 – Tuesday, Aug. 31
Oxon Hill Public Library
6200 Oxon Hill Road
Oxon Hill, Md. 20745

B2 – Wednesday, Sept. 1
Eliot-Hine Middle School
1830 Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington D.C. 20002

23A, 23C and 25A, 25C, 25D – Tuesday, Sept. 21
Shirlington Library
4200 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, Va. 22206

23A, 23C – Wednesday, Sept. 22
Franklin Sherman Elementary
6630 Brawner Street
McLean, Va. 22101

23A, 23C and 25A, 25C, 25D – Thursday, Sept. 23
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Building
4301 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington Va. 22203

For more information or to submit comments and suggestions about the Service Evaluation Study, visit http://www.metrobus-studies.com/ or call the project hotline at 202-370-2915.

News release issued at 9:48 am, August 24, 2010.