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Metro released the details of the changes to 20 major bus routes yesterday. The changes, which will go into effect on December 27, are detailed on WMATA’s web site. The major changes affecting the Hill include:
X2 Benning Road – H Street Line
Five new weekday trips (eastbound) will be scheduled in order to reduce crowding. These trips will start at a new terminal stand on the west side of 9th Street, NW, then continue via 9th Street, to H Street and will then follow the regular route to Minnesota Avenue Metrorail station. Buses will leave 9th Street and New York Avenue at 3:31, 4:04, 4:38, 5:11, and 5:48 p.m. Weekday evening trip times starting at 9 p.m. will be adjusted in both directions.
90, 92, 93 U street – Garfield Line
Weekday northbound service will run every five minutes between 7 and 9 a.m. Weekday southbound service will run every five and half minutes between 4 and 6 p.m.
A new weekday southbound route 92 bus will be scheduled to leave Duke Ellington Bridge at 2:42 a.m. Weekday evening trips starting at 9 p.m. will be adjusted in both directions.
B2 Bladensburg Road – Anacostia Line
Every other weekday northbound bus from Anacostia will terminate at Bladensburg Road and V Street, NE, during morning and afternoon peak periods, instead of Mount Rainier. Every other weekday southbound bus to Anacostia will leave from Bladensburg Road and 26th Street, NE, instead of Mount Rainier. The weekday schedule will change.
Weekday westbound trips leaving 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, at 5:03 and 5:48 p.m. will be extended to service Friendship Heights.
D6 Sibley Hospital – Stadium Armory Line
The weekday schedule will change. Buses servicing the route between Sibley Hospital and Stadium-Armory Metrorail station will be scheduled every 22 to 25 minutes with shorter route buses servicing in between during the afternoon peak period. Eastbound short trip buses to Stadium Armory will leave Farragut Square (on 17th Street) at 3:14, 3:39, 4:02, 4:25, 4:45, 5:09, 5:32, 5:54, and 6:13 p.m. Westbound short trips to Sibley Hospital will leave Farragut Square at 4:47, 5:11, 5:37, 5:59, 6:23, and 6:47 p.m.
V7, V9 Minnesota Avenue – M Street Line
Weekday service will run every nine minutes westbound between 7 and 9 a.m. and eastbound between 3:30 and 6 p.m.