There are of streets, parkways, and avenues in the district. Due to the freeway revolts of the 1960s, much of the proposed interstate highway system through the middle of Washington was never built. Interstate 95 (I-95), the nation's major east coast highway, therefore bends around the district to form the eastern portion of the Capital Beltway. A portion of the proposed highway funding was directed to the region's public transportation infrastructure instead. The interstate highways that continue into Washington, including I-66 and I-395, both terminate shortly after entering the city. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates the Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit system, as well as Metrobus.
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Washington, D.C. | Transportation
Roadways, metro and airports, to name a few. "Washington Metro" and "Metrobus", to name a few. Washington Metro Metrobus and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
what do dc stand for in washington dc
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District of Columbia.
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where is it located ?
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In the United States of America.
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name some landmarks located here ?
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The Lincoln Memorial, the United States Capitol, the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Pier, to name a few.
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how is the crime rate here ?
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A 2010 study found that 5% percent of city blocks accounted for more than 25% of the district's total crimes.
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name some sister cities of this city ?
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Paris and Rome.
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There are a number of major routes for autos.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Cars
DC Circulator is a downtown circulator bus system owned by the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, with five routes connecting points of interest in the city center.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | DC Circulator
On February 27, 2016 the first line of the DC Streetcar was opened between Union Station and Oklahoma Ave/Benning Rd, running for most of its length along H Street. More lines are planned.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | DC Streetcar
Higher education campuses in the area offer on-site and commuter transportation, such as the University of Maryland's Shuttle-UM.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Student transportation
Washington, D.C. has a number of different modes of transportation available for use. Commuters have a major influence on travel patterns, with only 28% of people employed in Washington, D.C. commuting from within the city, whereas 33.5% commute from the nearby Maryland suburbs, 22.7% from Northern Virginia, and the rest from Washington, D.C.'s outlying suburbs.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Introduction
Public transportation began in Washington, D.C., almost as soon as the city was founded. In May 1800, two-horse stage coaches began running twice daily from Bridge and High Streets NW (now Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW) in Georgetown by way of M Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW/SE to William Tunnicliff's Tavern at the site now occupied by the Supreme Court Building. Service ended soon after it began. The next attempt at public transit arrived in the spring of 1830, when Gilbert Vanderwerken's Omnibuses, horse-drawn wagons, began running from Georgetown to the Navy Yard. The company maintained stables on M Street, NW.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Early transit in Washington
There are of streets, parkways, and avenues in the district. Due to the freeway revolts of the 1960s, much of the proposed interstate highway system through the middle of Washington was never built. Interstate 95 (I-95), the nation's major east coast highway, therefore bends around the district to form the eastern portion of the Capital Beltway. A portion of the proposed highway funding was directed to the region's public transportation infrastructure instead. The interstate highways that continue into Washington, including I-66 and I-395, both terminate shortly after entering the city. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates the Washington Metro, the city's rapid transit system, as well as Metrobus.
Washington, D.C. | Transportation
VRE trains also stop at several Metro stations, including , , , and .
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Commuter rail
Washington Deluxe is an independent bus line offering express round trip service between the cities of New York and Washington, DC. The Washington, D.C. bus stops include Dupont Circle and Columbus Circle. The New York City stops include Penn Station Chinatown, and Brooklyn.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Washington Deluxe
In December 2001, Metro initiated a relationship with Flexcar, a private company which operates car sharing networks in several North American cities. A competitor, Zipcar, began service in the region and later merged with Flexcar on October 31, 2007. With this service, cars are parked at major Metrorail stations and other convenient locations in the metropolitan area and made available for rental on an hourly basis, with the goal of reducing car dependency and congestion, improving the environment, and increasing transit ridership. In March 2012, Car2Go began offering service in D.C., initially providing 200 Smart cars for use everywhere within the District's city limits.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Car sharing
It began operations on May 1, 1897, with a car barn at 1914 E Street NW. In 1904, it became its own corporation.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Horse-drawn chariots and the Herdic Phaeton Company
Still other remnants include the Potomac Electric Power Company, the electric portion of Washington Traction and Electric Company, which remains the D.C. area's primary electrical power company; some streetcar-related manhole covers that remain in use around town; and four tall lampposts for Capital Traction's overhead wires on the Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley in Cleveland Park. The poles likely date back to the bridge's construction in 1931.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Other remnants
Vamoose Bus is a private bus line offering service from the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Lorton, Virginia; Arlington, Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland to and from New York City.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Vamoose Bus
Both streets follow the NE, NW, SE, SW rule. Major interstates running through the area include the Capital Beltway (I-495), I-66, I-95, I-395 (also called the Southwest/Southeast Freeway in D.C. or Shirley Highway in Virginia), I-295 (also called the Anacostia Freeway or Kenilworth Avenue), and I-270 (which does not reach D.C., terminating at I-495). Other major highways include the Whitehurst Freeway, in D.C., the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, the Rock Creek Parkway in D.C., the Suitland Parkway in D.C. and Maryland, US Route 50, the Clara Barton Parkway and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland, and the Dulles Toll Road in Virginia.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Streets and highways
Rep. William B. Widnall, Republican of New Jersey, used it as an opportunity to push for moving the center to a central, downtown location. The 2011 Metro transit-needs study identified five additional sites where infill stations could be built. These included Kansas Avenue and Montgomery College on the Red Line, respectively in Northwest D.C. and Rockville, Maryland; Oklahoma Avenue on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines near the D.C. Armory in Northeast D.C.; Eisenhower Valley on the Blue Line in Alexandria, Virginia; and the St. Elizabeths Hospital campus on the Green Line in Southwest D.C.
Washington Metro | Individual and infill stations
The following railroads operate or once operated in the District of Columbia.
List of Washington, D.C., railroads | Introduction
As part of the deal selling Capital Transit to O. Roy Chalk, he was required to replace the system with buses by 1963. Chalk fought the retirement of the streetcars but was unsuccessful, and the final abandonment of the streetcar system began on September 7, 1958, with the end of the North Capitol Street (Route 80) and Maryland (Route 82) lines. On January 3, 1960, the Glen Echo (Route 20), Friendship Heights (Route 30) & Georgia Avenue (Routes 70, 72, 74) streetcar lines were abandoned and the Southern Division (Maine Avenue) Car Barn was closed. This technically ended "trolley" cars in D.C.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Abandonment
This table gives background knowledge of how routes were created and the overall changes it has gone through the years.
List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C. | Routes History
OurBus offers intercity bus service to New York City, Philadelphia, Allentown, Binghamton, and Ithaca from Union Station. The company also serves the DC suburbs including Tysons, Rockville, Bethesda, and Columbia with direct service to New York City.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | OurBus
The following Metrobus routes travel along the street (listed from south to north):
14th Street (Washington, D.C.) | Metrobus
The streets and highways of Washington, D.C., form the core of the city's surface transportation infrastructure. Given that it is a planned city, streets in the capital of the United States follow a distinctive layout and addressing scheme. There are of public roads in the city, of which are owned and maintained by the district government.
Streets and highways of Washington, D.C. | Introduction
Because it connects to one of the main bridges crossing the Potomac River into Virginia, 14th Street has always been a major transportation corridor. It was the location of one of the first streetcar lines, and today it is the location of several afternoon carpooling "slug lines", which allow commuters to meet the high-occupancy vehicle requirements of I-395, the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway.
14th Street (Washington, D.C.) | Introduction
Tracks can still be seen in the floors in some locations of the Bureau.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Tunnels
Four suburban Virginia lines, connecting through Rosslyn, Virginia, provided links from the D.C. streetcar network to Mount Vernon, Falls Church, Great Falls, Fairfax, Vienna, Leesburg, and Purcellville. Streetcar operations in Washington, D.C. ended January 28, 1962. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad built an 11-mile branch line from Silver Spring, Maryland, to Water Street in Georgetown in an abortive attempt to construct a southern connection to Alexandria, Virginia. The line served as an industrial line, shipping coal to a General Services Administration power plant on K Street (now razed) until 1985. The abandoned right-of-way has since been converted into the Capital Crescent Trail – a rails-to-trails route – and the power plant replaced by a condo.
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) | Transportation
Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE commuter trains and the Metrorail Red Line also provide service into Union Station. Following renovations in 2011, Union Station became Washington's primary intercity bus transit center. Three major airports serve the district. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is across the Potomac River from downtown Washington in Arlington, Virginia and primarily handles domestic flights. Major international flights arrive and depart from Dulles International Airport, west of the district in Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia. Baltimore/Washington International Airport is northeast of the district in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. According to a 2010 study, Washington-area commuters spent 70 hours a year in traffic delays, which tied with Chicago for having the nation's worst road congestion.
Washington, D.C. | Transportation
By 1916 streetcar use was reaching its peak in Washington, D.C. The combined systems had over 200 miles of track, with almost 100 in the city. Passengers could travel to Great Falls, Glen Echo, Rockville, Kensington and Laurel in Maryland; and to Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Vienna, Fairfax, Leesburg, Great Falls and Bluemont in Virginia. World War I saw further increases in passenger traffic. But the streetcars were also under increasing threat from competition. The first threat to the streetcars came with the introduction of gasoline powered taxicabs. The taximeter, invented in 1891, combined with the combustion engine, created a new form of public transportation.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Bustitution and competition
In 1933, a second consolidation brought all streetcars under one company, Capital Transit. Over the next decades, the streetcar system shrank amid the rising popularity of the automobile and pressure to switch to buses. After a strike in 1955, the company changed ownership and became DC Transit, with explicit instructions to switch to buses. The system was dismantled in the early 1960s; the last streetcar ran on January 28, 1962. Today, some streetcars, car barns, trackage, stations, and rights-of-way exist in various states of usage. Tracks are still visible on the 3200, 3300, and 3400 blocks of O St NW and P St NW.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Introduction
Tripper Bus is a private commuter bus offering service from the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Arlington, Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland to and from New York City.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Tripper Bus
Amtrak's "Acela Express" and "Northeast Regional" provide service on the high speed Northeast Corridor from Washington's Union Station to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, as well as intermediate stops. In addition, the "Vermonter" provides service to St. Albans, Vermont via New York. The "Palmetto" provides service to Georgia, the "Crescent" provides service to New Orleans, and Amtrak's "Silver Service" trains provide service to Florida, all en route from New York. The "Capitol Limited" and "Cardinal", the latter using a much longer and more southerly route via West Virginia and Virginia, provide rail service between Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Amtrak
It is included in the Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan. Another streetcar line was proposed for Maine Avenue SW. In October 2010, the D.C. government unveiled its long-awaited, $1.5 billion development proposal for the city's southwest waterfront district. This proposal included a DC Streetcar line down the middle of the entire length of Maine Avenue.
DC Streetcar | Proposed lines
Fourteenth Street has been a major transit route ever since the Capital Traction Company streetcar line was built around the turn of the 20th century. The successor to that line is the Metrobus 14th Street Line—routes 52 & 54.
14th Street (Washington, D.C.) | Transit service
The DC Streetcar is a surface streetcar network in Washington, D.C. , it consists of only one line: a 2.2-mile segment running in mixed traffic along H Street and Benning Road in the city's Northeast quadrant. The streetcars are the first to run in the District of Columbia since the dismantling of the previous streetcar system in 1962. The District of Columbia began laying track in 2009, for two lines whose locations in Anacostia and Benning were chosen to revitalize blighted commercial corridors. The system is owned by the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT); the RATP Group, a French transportation company, has been chosen as the initial operators.
DC Streetcar | Introduction
City streets in the District of Columbia are organized primarily in a grid-like fashion with its origin at the United States Capitol, with diagonal streets running across this grid, as well as circles—a plan laid out by Pierre L'Enfant and revised by Andrew Ellicott and Joseph Ellicott. The north–south roads are primarily named with numbers (i.e. 1st Street, 2nd Street, etc.), while the east–west roads are primarily named with letters (beginning with A Street) or, once letters are exhausted, are named alphabetically (Adams, Bryant, Channing, etc.) Intersecting this network of streets are diagonal avenues named after each of the fifty states.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Streets and highways
Among the major roads in the city are MacArthur Boulevard NW, 14th Street NW, 16th Street NW, 18th Street NW, 7th Street NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, K Street NW, H Street NW, Wisconsin Avenue, M Street NW, H Street NE, Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue, U Street NW, South Dakota Ave NE, North Capitol Street, South Capitol Street, East Capitol Street, Georgia Avenue, Minnesota Avenue, Benning Road, Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, New York Avenue, and Rhode Island Avenue. While city streets generally do not have route numbers, U.S. Routes 1, 1 Alternate, 29, and 50 are routed predominantly or entirely over city surface streets.
Streets and highways of Washington, D.C. | City streets
The Washington area is served by the Washington Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). WMATA also operates Metrobus, a regional bus system serving D.C. and the closest immediate counties (described further below). The Washington Metro connects with both commuter rail and intercity rail systems at Union Station.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Washington Metro
Some car barns, or car houses as they were later known, survived in part or in whole. Other car barns were demolished.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Car barns and shops
As improvements, such as balloon tires, were made, buses became more popular. The first formal bus company in Washington, the Washington Rapid Transit Company, was incorporated on January 20, 1921. By 1932 it was carrying 4.5% of transit customers. Two years later, the last streetcar line was built.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Bustitution and competition
One last special trip, carrying organized groups of trolley enthusiasts, set out after that and returned at 4:45am. By the afternoon of the 28th, workers began tearing out the streetcar tracks and platforms along 14th Street.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Abandonment
Later, between 1903 and 1917, a line was added running south on 3rd St NW and west on Kennedy St NW to Colorado Avenue where it connected to Capital Traction's 14th Street line. On March 14, 1914, it changed its name to the Washington and Maryland Railway.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Baltimore and Washington
In 1946, a consultant's study laid out a plan for a hub-spoke-and-wheel system of limited access highways for the D.C. metropolitan region, centered on the White House. The plan received support from prominent architects like Louis Justement and urban planners like Harland Bartholomew. Four years later, in 1950, the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, which had statutory authority to approve planning in the D.C. metro area, issued "A Comprehensive Plan for the National Capital and Its Environs". This planning document (written by Bartholomew) incorporated the highways proposed in the 1946 consultant's study. In 1954, the governments of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia signed an agreement to jointly plan transportation in the region with the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission.
Three Sisters Bridge | Proposing the bridge
At its southern terminus it connected to the Eckington and Soldier's Home.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Washington and Great Falls - Maryland and Washington
Metrorail's Yellow and Blue Lines serve Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Express bus service from and is provided to Washington Dulles International Airport. Baltimore-Washington International Airport is served by express bus from and by rail from Union Station by MARC and Amtrak. There is also a planned station for Washington Dulles International Airport on the Metrorail Silver Line.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Airport transportation
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Metrobus fleet (Washington, D.C.) | External links
By 1900, the tracks had extended to Rockville.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Georgetown and Tenleytown
Between 1862 and 1962, streetcars in Washington, D.C., were a common mode of transportation, but the system was dismantled in the early 1960s as part of a switch to bus service.
DC Streetcar | First iteration of streetcars
Washington, D.C. has the second highest percentage of public transit commuters in the United States, behind only New York City. Commuters have a major influence on travel patterns in Washington, D.C. 671,678 people are employed in Washington, D.C., with only 28% commuting from within the city. 18.7% of people working in Washington, D.C. commute from Prince George's County, Maryland and 14.8% from Montgomery County, Maryland. 13.2% come from Fairfax County, Virginia, 6% from Arlington County, Virginia, and 3.5% from Alexandria, Virginia. Smaller numbers of commuters come from the outer suburbs, including 2.4% from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and 2.3% from Prince William County, Virginia, 1.6% from Charles County, Maryland, 1.3% from Howard County, Maryland, and 1% from Loudoun County, Virginia.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Commuting
It now serves as urban greenspace.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Right-of-way
The trains will travel between Boston and Washington D.C. multiple times a day, a route 3.5 million customers took in 2019.
Public transportation in the United States | Rail
Tracks also exist under Ellington Place NE, 3rd Street NE, 8th Street SE, and elsewhere. In 1977, the tracks on M and Pennsylvania in Georgetown were paved over. Perhaps the sole remaining visible trackage is the tracks and conduit in the center of the cobblestone of the 3200 through 3400 blocks of P Street NW and O Street NW in Georgetown.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Tracks
In 1896 the Belt Railway tried out compressed air motors. The compressed air motors were a failure, and in 1899 the cars were equipped with the standard underground power system.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Belt
The DC Circulator is a bus system in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia Department of Transportation, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and DC Surface Transit operate the service in a public-private partnership with RATP Dev, although it has been proposed that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation operate the Circulator directly. The DC Circulator buses are similar to shuttle buses since they operate on a predictable fixed route and schedule, and run between the city's main attractions and some of the more popular neighborhoods for visitors. The service began in 2005, and passengers increased as the routes grew from two to five.
DC Circulator | Introduction
The Dupont Circle streetcar station tunnel entrances, located where the medians of Connecticut Avenue NW now stand, north of N Street NW, and between R Street NW and S Street NW, were filled in and paved over in August 1964, leaving only the traffic tunnel. The C Street NW/NE tunnel beneath the Upper Senate Park remained in use as a one-way service road adjacent to the Capitol, but since 9/11 it has been closed to the public. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing underground loop is now part of a parking structure and storage area that is located directly underneath 14th Street SW.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Tunnels
In 1945 Capital Transit had America's 3rd largest streetcar fleet. (A map of the system in 1948)
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Monopoly
Portions of I-66 and I-95/I-395 in Virginia are HOV roads (only vehicles carrying multi-occupants or using hybrid energy are allowed on during weekday rush hours).
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Streets and highways
The DC Streetcar's H Street NE/Benning Road Line also serves the area.
Northeast (Washington, D.C.) | Transportation
This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus in Washington, D.C.. Many are the descendants of streetcar lines operated by the Capital Transit Company or its predecessors.
List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C. | Introduction
Taxicabs were put into service in Paris in 1899, in New York in 1907 and in Washington in 1908. Over the years, their numbers expanded. Taxis based and operating in the boundaries of the District of Columbia charged their fares with a zone system instead of taximeters, which is still in use. In 1909 the Metropolitan Coach Company began to switch from horse-drawn coaches to gasoline-powered coaches - replacing its entire system by 1913 - becoming a precursor to the bus companies. It was a financial failure though and on August 13, 1915, the company ceased operations. The gasoline-powered bus was invented in Germany in 1895 and motorized buses were introduced in New York City in 1905.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Bustitution and competition
As part of her first State of the District Address in March 2015, Bowser promised to get the DC Streetcar "up and running." In September, Bowser as well as the director of the D.C. Department of Transportation promised that the streetcar would be operational by the end of the year. The H Street/Benning line eventually began public service operations on February 27, 2016.
Muriel Bowser | Transportation
Union Station is a stop for many intercity bus lines, including Megabus, BoltBus, Greyhound Lines, OurBus, Peter Pan Bus Lines, and BestBus. A bus stop for the Chinatown bus lines is near station and the Capitol One Arena. The Metro station also has a bus line that commutes to the Baltimore-Washington International Airport, which connects Metro to the Baltimore area's MTA buses and light rail system. MTA Commuter Bus also serves limited parts of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland. Local transit services such as Loudoun County Commuter Bus and private companies such as Martz Group provide commuter bus service to Virginia.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Intercity buses
The City and Suburban Railway was chartered in 1890 to run a streetcar from just east of the White House at New York Avenue and 15th St NW to what is now Mount Rainier on the D.C. line. On March 31, 1892 the Maryland and Washington Railway incorporated to build a rail line connecting any passenger railway in the District of Columbia to Branchville and eventually Laurel. On April 4, 1896 The Maryland and Washington, having difficulty raising money, merged with several other struggling streetcar companies to create the Columbia and Maryland Railway. Meanwhile, the City and Suburban was laying down track, reaching Mount Rainier in 1897.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C., and Maryland | City and Suburban Railway
In October 2010, D.C. officials unveiled tentative plans to build a streetcar line up Georgia Avenue. The city began holding public hearings on construction of the line ahead of schedule, due to the imminent 2011 closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The streetcar line was part of a proposed $500 million, mixed-use housing, office, and retail development that would begin construction in 2013. D.C. officials moved up hearings on (and potential construction of) the Georgia Avenue Line because the redevelopment of the Walter Reed site would be heavily dependent on the streetcar reaching the area by the time the new homes and businesses opened.
DC Streetcar | Proposed lines
One branch ran to Kenilworth, and the other, built in 1900, connected at Seat Pleasant with the terminus of the steam-powered Chesapeake Beach Railway.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Columbia
District of Columbia Routes are numbered highways maintained by District of Columbia's District Department of Transportation (DDOT). In addition to these routes, there are several Interstate and United States Numbered Highways that pass through Washington, D.C.. The metro area is also served by three unnumbered, federally maintained, parkways: the Clara Barton Parkway, the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, and the George Washington Memorial Parkway (the latter on the west side of the Potomac River, but a portion of it is east of the Boundary Channel).
List of numbered highways in Washington, D.C. | Introduction
The list of Metrobus routes has been split by region:
List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.) | Current routes
All divisions are currently showing suspended and reduced routes as of August 23, 2020.
List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.) | Divisions
Within this grid, all streets are a part of one of the four quadrants of the city — Northeast (NE), Northwest (NW), Southeast (SE), and Southwest (SW) — all centered on the Capitol Building. All roads end with this suffix at the end of their title. For example, there is a 4th Street NE, 4th Street NW, 4th Street SE, and 4th Street SW. Exceptions to this nomenclature include the names of the streets that line the National Mall. The north side of the mall is lined by Constitution Avenue, whereas the south side of the mall is lined by Independence Avenue.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Streets and highways
After serving in the US Army he joined DC Transit as a bus operator. He moved through the ranks from Depot Clerk, to Street Operation Supervisor, Dispatcher and Division Supervisor, Acting Co-ordinator of Operating Personnel, and finally on January 3, 1971, was promoted by the president, O. Roy Chalk, to Superintendent of Operating Personnel.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | DC Transit
Although initially planned to go as far as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the line never ran further than an extension to Berwyn Heights, Maryland. The route was planned to promote development of company-owned land adjacent to the tracks, but it never successfully competed with established rail lines in the same area. Noting its diminished ambitions, it became the Washington Interurban Railway on October 12, 1912, and changed the Railway to Railroad in 1919.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Washington, Spa Spring, and Gretta
The D.C. Circulator's Georgetown-Union Station route travels along the street:
Wisconsin Avenue | DC Circulator
Of the 260,000 Washington, D.C. residents that were employed as of 2000, 24% commute to jobs in Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, and Arlington Counties, as well as Alexandria. Of those that work in Washington, D.C., 44.8% drive alone to work, 21.2% take Metro, 14.4% carpool/slug, 8.8% use Metrobus, 4.5% walk to work, 2.7% travel by commuter rail, and 0.6% ride their bicycle to work. Of the households in Washington, D.C., 35.4% do not own a car.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Commuting
Remnants of the line in Montgomery County include:
Streetcars in Washington, D.C., and Maryland | Washington & Great Falls Electric Railway
In May 2010, the D.C. City Council removed all $49 million in streetcar funding from the city budget. The "Washington Post" reported that streetcar supporters blamed Sarah Campbell, a member of the Committee of 100 and the budget director for the city council, for the decision. Campbell vehemently denied the accusation, saying she did not oppose overhead wires but was concerned that the city had not come up with an adequate funding method for the project yet. A month later, the city council passed legislation allowing overhead wires along Benning Road and H Street NE, but banning them from the area around the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
Committee of 100 on the Federal City | Opposition to DC Streetcar
The Corridor is served by the U Street station of the Washington Metro (subway), with service on the Green Line and during rush hours on the Yellow Line as well. WMATA buses run along both U and 14th streets, and the DC Circulator Woodley Park-Adams Morgan-McPherson Square line stops at 14th and U. Capital Bikeshare and various scooter-sharing systems have stations/vehicles in the area.
U Street | Public transportation
However, 37% of Washington-area commuters take public transportation to work, the second-highest rate in the country. An additional 12% of D.C. commuters walked to work, 6% carpooled, and 3% traveled by bicycle in 2010. A 2011 study by Walk Score found that Washington was the seventh-most walkable city in the country with 80% of residents living in neighborhoods that are not car dependent. In 2013, the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had the eighth lowest percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (75.7 percent), with 8percent of area workers traveling via rail transit.
Washington, D.C. | Transportation
The Washington Bridge carries the bus routes operated by New York City Bus.
Washington Bridge | Public transportation
Metrobus is a bus service operated by Metro, consisting of 176 bus lines serving 12,301 stops, including 3,133 bus shelters and nearly every Washington Metro station. In fiscal year 2006, Metrobus provided 131 million trips, 39% of all Washington Metro trips. It serves D.C. and the inner ring of suburban counties. The Maryland Department of Transportation and several privately operated companies provide bus service during weekday rush hours between D.C. and more distant counties such as Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Howard, and St. Mary's in Maryland; and Fredericksburg, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford in Virginia.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Metrobus
Other routes that weren't formed under the Metrobus tag were the 56 and 58. Route 56 operated from Summit Hills Apartments to the Bureau of Engraving and route 58 operated to Takoma. Route 56 was later renamed routes 50, 52, and 54 when the merger happened in 1973 while route 58 was later renamed route K8.
14th Street Line (Washington, D.C.) | Bus Lines
These lines were later extended down 11th Street SE to the waterfront and up 7th Street NW to L Street NW. Vanderwerken's success attracted competitors, who added new lines, but by 1854, all omnibuses had come under the control of two companies, "The Union Line" and "The Citizen's Line." In 1860, these two merged under the control of Vanderwerken and continued to operate until they were run out of business by the next new technology: streetcars.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Early transit in Washington
Amtrak's nonstop service "Auto Train" to Sanford, Florida originates 30 minutes south of the city in Lorton, Virginia. Connections to the Washington Metro are offered at in Washington, station in Prince George's County, in Montgomery County, and , adjacent to Alexandria Union Station.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Amtrak
Northwest is bounded by the Potomac River on the west, Western Avenue and Eastern Avenue to the north, North Capitol Street to the east, and the National Mall to the south. Other principal roads include Connecticut Avenue between Chevy Chase and the White House, Wisconsin Avenue between Friendship Heights and Georgetown, Pennsylvania Avenue between Georgetown and the Capitol, K Street, Massachusetts Avenue (home to Embassy Row), and 16th Street. Northwest is served by all six lines of the Washington Metro: the Orange, Silver, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green Lines. Many Metrobus lines run through the quadrant, as well as the DC Circulator.
Northwest (Washington, D.C.) | Transportation
There is heavy vehicle congestion from the large percentage of the population who chooses to drive. This results in a parking problem. There have been various attempts by corporations to solve the city's parking problem as a Guinea pig location. There has been little success. Parking restrictions are strictly enforced, and the complicated parking hours posted on signs can be confusing. Environmentalists question the free parking spaces given to thousands of Congressional employees, which discourages them from using public transportation.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Parking
Washington, D.C., has fifteen official sister city agreements. Each of the listed cities is a national capital except for Sunderland, which includes the town of Washington, the ancestral home of George Washington's family. Paris and Rome are each formally recognized as a partner city due to their special one sister city policy. Listed in the order each agreement was first established, they are:
Washington, D.C. | Sister cities
The DC Circulator's Woodley Park–Adams Morgan–McPherson Square Metro bus line travels along 14th Street between Columbia Heights and Franklin Square.
14th Street (Washington, D.C.) | DC Circulator
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were drawn by horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introduction of cleaner and faster electric streetcars, capable of climbing steeper inclines, opened up the hilly suburbs north of the old city and in Anacostia. Several of the district's streetcar lines were extended into Maryland, and two Virginia lines crossed into the district. The city experimented briefly with cable cars, but by the beginning of the 20th century, the streetcar system was fully electrified. By 1901, a series of mergers dubbed the "Great Streetcar Consolidation" gathered most local transit firms into two major companies.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Introduction
The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company was incorporated prior to 1894, with authorization to run from the District of Columbia, across Maryland to the Pennsylvania border. On June 8, 1896, it was given permission to enter the District of Columbia and connect to the spur of the Brightwood that ran on Butternut St NW. In 1897, it began construction on a line, known locally as the Dinky Line, that began at the end of the Brightwood spur at 4th and Butternut Streets NW, traveled south on 4th Street NW to Aspen Street NW and then east on Aspen Street NW and Laurel Street NW into Maryland.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Baltimore and Washington
The entire route is in Washington, D.C. Exits were unnumbered until July 2014.
Interstate 695 (District of Columbia) | Exit list
The concept of a separate downtown bus was included in a 1997 report by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC). The report called for "a simple, inexpensive, and easily navigable surface transit system that complements Metrobus and Metrorail." The next year, representatives of the Commission, the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and the Downtown D.C. business improvement district met to plan what would become the Circulator. After selecting First Transit as the system operator, the DC Circulator started service in July 2005 with two routes: one along K Street from Union Station to Georgetown, and a second from the Walter E.
DC Circulator | History
The compressed-air motors were a failure and in 1899 the company switched to the standard underground electric power conduit.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Eckington and Soldiers' Home
Both systems serve the district and its suburbs. Metro opened on March 27, 1976 and, , consists of 91 stations and of track. With an average of about one million trips each weekday, Metro is the second-busiest rapid transit system in the country. Metrobus serves more than 400,000 riders each weekday and is the nation's fifth-largest bus system. The city also operates its own DC Circulator bus system, which connects commercial areas within central Washington. Union Station is the city's main train station and services approximately 70,000 people each day. It is Amtrak's second-busiest station with 4.6 million passengers annually and is the southern terminus for the Northeast Corridor and Acela Express routes.
Washington, D.C. | Transportation
There is a network of dedicated bicycle lanes around Washington, D.C. and there are 1,300 bicycle racks installed on sidewalks all over the city. An estimated 3.3% of the District's residents biked to work at least one day during 2010, and by 2008 the city had the sixth-highest percentage of bike commuters in the United States. The city's primary bicycle sharing system is Capital Bikeshare, which began services in September 2010. Washington, D.C., formerly had the largest bike sharing service in the U.S. with 1,100 bicycles and 110 rental locations (New York City's CitiBike program is now larger). The city began a dockless bikeshare pilot program in fall 2017, and more recently introduced dockless electric scooters.
Transportation in Washington, D.C. | Bicycle and scooter
The Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Electric Railway began operating between Alexandria and Mount Vernon in 1892. On August 23, 1894, it was given permission to enter the District of Columbia using a boat or barge. However, the railroad never actually used any such watercraft.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Virginia trolleys operating in Washington, D.C
Perhaps the most visible remnant of the streetcar system is the Metrobus system, run by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). On January 14, 1973, WMATA purchased DC Transit and the Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Company (followed on February 4 by the purchase of AB&W Transit Company and WMA Transit Company) unifying all the bus companies in D.C. Many of today's WMATA's bus routes are only marginally changed from the streetcar lines they followed. For example, the #30 streetcar route that ran from Barney Circle to Friendship Heights is now the #30 bus line that runs from Anacostia through Barney Circle to Friendship Heights.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Other remnants
The following Metrobus routes travel along the street (listed from west to east):
Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.) | Metrobus
The Anacostia and Potomac River switched from horses to electricity in April 1900. This was the last horse-drawn streetcar to run in the District.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Anacostia and Potomac River
Plans to build Interstate 270, Interstate 95, Interstate 295 and Interstate 66, as well as a proposed Interstate 266 over a new Three Sisters Bridge through Washington, D.C. and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs were canceled in 1977 due to public opposition. This is why Interstate 395 (the originally planned I-95 Center Leg Freeway) ends at New York Avenue and Interstate 95 goes around the Capital Beltway rather than continuing through the city. Funds for several of these projects were redirected to the construction of the Washington Metro.
Highway revolts in the United States | Washington, D.C
D.C. Council Member David Catania specifically requested that DDOT study adding streetcars in the Anacostia neighborhood.
DC Streetcar | Second iteration of streetcars
The chart below consists of all District of Columbia Routes, including signed routes that no longer traverse the District of Columbia.
List of numbered highways in Washington, D.C. | List of routes
The Columbia decided to try a cable system, the last cable car system built in the United States. They built a new cable car barn and began operating the system on March 9, 1895. It became clear that the underground electrical system was superior, so it quickly abandoned cable cars and switched to electrical power on July 22, 1899. The last cable car in the city ran the next day. Using electricity from the power plant built to power its cable operation, the Columbia won permission in 1898 to build a line east along Benning Road NE, splitting on the east side of the Anacostia.
Streetcars in Washington, D.C. | Columbia
Exit numbers were added in 2014 as part of the 11th Street Bridges reconstruction. The entire route is in Washington, D.C.
District of Columbia Route 295 | Exit list
The B&O opened a rail line from Baltimore to Washington in 1835. Passenger traffic on the Washington Branch had increased by the 1850s, as the company opened a large station in 1851 on New Jersey Avenue NW, just north of the Capitol. Further railroad development continued after the Civil War, with a new B&O line (the Metropolitan Branch) connecting Washington to the west, and the introduction of competition from the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in the 1870s. In 1907, Union Station opened as the city's central terminal.
History of Washington, D.C. | Railroads arrive in Washington