GGW post on WMATA's proposed MetroExtra G9 bus route through Bloomingdale

See Bloomingdale resident Malcolm Kenton Greater Greater Washington post regarding the proposed MetroExtra G9 bus route that WMATA presented at this past Monday's Bloomingdale Civic Association meeting.

I have copied in a few paragraphs.  Click on the link to read the entire GGW post and the comments.

You can see the map with the suggested limited stops here.

Proposed MetroExtra bus route would serve all of Rhode Island Avenue in DC

by Malcolm Kenton   •   February 26, 2014

A new MetroExtra bus route could connect the entire Rhode Island Avenue corridor between downtown DC and Mount Rainier for the first time. Unfortunately, there isn't any funding yet.

At a Bloomingdale Civic Association meeting Monday night, WMATA unveiled a proposal for a route that would run along the Rhode Island Avenue corridor from downtown DC to Mount Rainier with a single-seat ride. Today, this can't be done without changing buses at least once, a holdover from DC's original transit system planned and built over 80 years ago.

The proposed MetroExtra route G9 is an outcome of the latest of several studies of major bus corridors, this one encompassing the G8 Metrobus, which runs between Michigan Park and Farragut Square, and the 80s, which run between the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station, College Park, and Calverton. (This study does not appear on the Metrobus Studies Website yet.)

The route would make more limited stops than the other bus routes along the corridor, stopping at about every half-mile. It would give residents of Ward 5 and Mount Rainier more frequent and more direct service to downtown, and offer them quicker connections with other major bus routes, such as the 70s, 90s and 80. 

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