Following Public Pressure, Metro Will Add More Bus Service to DC’s Busiest Corridor

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Following Public Pressure, Metro Will Add More Bus Service to DC’s Busiest Corridor
By Martin Di Caro | 03/19/2013


[font size="1"]Commuters at 16th and U Streets NW[/font]


Additional morning rush hour service is coming to Metro’s busiest bus corridor in Washington after the Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission took commuters’ complaints to the transit authority.

The S bus line on 16th Street NW, a historic gateway into downtown D.C., is struggling to meet ridership demand. Buses are often packed before reaching the southern stretch of the route and cannot squeeze additional passengers aboard, leaving rush hour commuters waiting in long lines at bus stops in Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, and near Dupont Circle. Some commuters eventually give up and hop in taxis.

“I went out to the bus stops and I saw taxicabs pull up to the long lines, seeing a business opportunity and offering to take them downtown, because the buses weren’t working for our city,” says Kishan Putta, a commissioner on the Dupont Circle ANC.

Putta tried to solicit commuters’ concerns on Facebook and Twitter but drew his largest response the old fashioned way: he put up posters at bus stops asking commuters to contact him. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://transportationnation.org/2013/03/19/following-public-pressure-metro-will-add-more-bus-service-to-dcs-busiest-corridor/

[KamaAina]

1. "Some commuters eventually give up and hop in taxis."

Aren't there Green and (at rush hour) Yellow Line Metro stations near there? (Columbia Heights, U St., Shaw, and across the way, Dupont and Woodley Park on the Red Line)