List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)

__FORCETOC__This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus. Many are the descendants of streetcar lines operated by the Capital Transit Company or its predecessors.

Numbering

Odd-numbered routes are typically part-time variants of even-numbered routes. At one time, odd numbered routes were express routes, but that distinction has been abandoned. Most D.C. and Maryland routes are grouped by their first digit. When this system was laid out in 1936, the following clustering was used:;Streetcars
*1 Columbia Line
*2 Cabin John Line
*3 Pennsylvania Avenue Line
*4 Mount Pleasant Line
*5 Fourteenth Street Line
*6 Eleventh Street Line
*7 Seventh Street Line
*8 Maryland Line and North Capitol Street Line
*9 U Street Line;Buses
*A West Anacostia,
*B Bladensburg Road, Annapolis Road, Bowie
*C East Anacostia, Route 50 (towards Bowie)
*D Northwest, Suitland
*E Northwest, Northeast, Crosstown
*F Brookland, East-West Highway
*G Northwest, Brookland
*H Columbia Road
*J Silver Spring
*K New Hampshire Avenue
*L Connecticut Avenue
*M Pennsylvania Avenue, Congress Heights, Northwest
*N Massachusetts Avenue
*P Anacostia, North Capitol Street
*Q Veirs Mill Road, Maryland
*R Prince George's County
*S 16th Street NW
*T Maryland
*V Minnesota Avenue, Capitol Heights, Suitland, Oxon Hill
*W Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue
*X H St. Northeast
*Y Georgia Avenue, Maryland
*Z US 29, Maryland

D.C. and Maryland routes

chool routes

These routes connect schools to Metrorail stations or other local points. They are primarily intended for students, but are open to anyone, and stop at all stops along their routes.
*A31, A32, A33: Anacostia High School Line, introduced on November 21, 2005Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, [http://www.wmata.com/about/met_news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1017 Three new Metrobus routes to serve Anacostia High School] , November 17, 2005]
*B51: Brookland and Bunker Hill (Elementary) School Line
*C40: Capitol Hill Cluster Line (Peabody and Watkins Elementary Schools)
*D31, D32, D33, D34: Deal Junior High School Line
*D51: Duke Ellington School of the Arts Line
*E32: Eastern High School Line
*M31: McKinley High School Line
*S35: Sousa Middle School Line
*S41: Springarn High School Line
*W45, W46, W47: Wilson High School Line
*W54: Woodson High School Line
*30 numbers: St. Albans, National Cathedral School, British School of Washington D.C. Line
*N4 and N2: Washington Latin School ( Mass. Ave. Campus) and Annunciation Catholic School Line

Former routes

References

* [http://www.wmata.com/timetables/bus_timetables.cfm?fromMenu=SchedulesAndFares.2 Metrobus timetables] , accessed May 2007

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