GGW: "A new bus line would give Rhode Island Avenue the transit it was meant to have"

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A new bus line would give Rhode Island Avenue the transit it was meant to have

by Tracy Hadden Loh and Andrew Dupuy   •   May 9, 2016

The G9, a new bus line that would run along Rhode Island Avenue from Mount Rainier into downtown, will become a reality if the DC Council decides to fund it this week. The G9 would give residents in the corridor a much-needed way to get downtown by transit, which their neighborhoods were built around in the first place.

Right now, the neighborhoods surrounding the nearly four miles of Rhode Island Avenue that run from Bloomingdale to Mount Rainier, Maryland are connected by only a single, weaving local bus route, the G8, which is characterized by less frequent service (especially off-peak) and an indirect route at its eastern end.

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