Talk:List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)
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[edit] Separating DC and Maryland?
The original purpose of the number/letter split was to separate streetcars and buses. There are some numbered routes only in Maryland and many lettered routes only in DC; compare [1] and [2]. --NE2 00:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] TOC
I started working on this but there aren't really good names for some of the ranges.
| Contents | 3 Pennsylvania Ave. · 4 Mt. Pleasant · 5 14th St. · 6 Petworth · 7 Georgia Ave. · 8 Rhode Island Ave. · 9 U St. North · A Anacostia · B Bladensburg Rd. · C Greenbelt · D Q St. NW · E Military Rd. · F Chillum Rd. · G LeDroit Park · # |
--NE2 16:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Conceptually Different Routes with the Same Number
This article seems to be developing a problem in cases where WMATA recycles bus numbers to conceptually different routes. For example, this article implies that the most recent 5B route, the DC-Tysons reverse commute line introduced by request of DC DoT is related to an older rush hour 5B run between Reston and West Falls Church station, when this isn't the case. (Initially the 5 was run by Metro between Reston & Herndon to West Falls Church (or the Pentagon and Crystal City). These runs were eventually transferred to Fairfax County's Connector bus, with numbers intact. Eventually Fairfax Connector restructured those routes and renumbered them to fit it into its 3 digit bus numbering scheme. The present day 5A and 5B were both requested by DC DoT as a reverse commute runs (5A in 2000 or 2001, 5B in 2003), the former being more successful than the latter. WMATA reintroduced the 5 numbering because of history of the 5 running along the DTR, but they are not descendants of the old 5 line. This is the one case I'm familiar of, but I fear there may be other cases of conflating two conceptually different routes that just happen to share a number. SterlingNorth 04:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
