Metro News Release
For immediate release: March 18, 2011
Metro, jurisdictions evaluating Metrobus service on eight bus lines
Goal of review is to improve service delivery
Metro, in cooperation with its jurisdictional partners, is beginning a Service Evaluation Study to review the overall performance of eight bus lines with the aim of reducing crowding and improving service reliability, frequency, travel time, bus stop amenities and customer communications.
Metro regularly undertakes a systematic look at bus routes throughout the region to improve their efficiency and service delivery. Bus lines chosen for this study were based on feedback from customers, jurisdictional priorities and an assessment by Metrobus service planners. Bus lines under review include:
• Laurel Express Line (Routes 87, 88), which operates from Laurel to Greenbelt (Route 87) and New Carrollton (Route 88) Metrorail stations;
• Laurel Line (Routes 89, 89M), which operates from Laurel to Greenbelt Metrorail station;
• Military Road-Crosstown Line (Routes E2,3,4), which operates from Friendship Heights Metrorail station to Ivy City (Routes E2,3) and Eastern Avenue (Route E4);
• Chevy Chase Line (Route E6), which operates from Friendship Heights Metrorail station to Greene Circle;
• Lincolnia-North Fairlington Line (Routes 7A,E,F,Y), which operates from Landmark (Routes 7A,F) and Southern Towers (Routes 7E,Y) to Pentagon and Federal Triangle (Route 7Y only) Metrorail stations;
• Lincolnia-Park Center-Pentagon Line (Routes 7B,C,D,H,P,W,X), which operates from the Pentagon to Park Center, Southern Towers and Lincolnia;
• DC-Dulles Line (Route 5A), which operates from L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail station to Dulles International Airport via the Rosslyn Metrorail station, Tysons-Westpark and the Herndon-Monroe Park & Ride; and
• Greenbelt-BWI Airport Line (Route B30), which operates express bus service between Greenbelt Metrorail station and BWI/Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Later this spring, Metro will hold public meetings to solicit input from riders and the public. Suggestions and comments about any of the above-mentioned bus lines also are welcome by e-mailing info@metrobus-studies.com. For more information about the studies and schedule of public meetings, call the project hotline at 703-340-3105 or visit http://www.metrobus-studies.com.
News release issued at 3:27 pm, March 18, 2011.