Mount Pleasant Line

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The Mount Pleasant Line, served by Route 42, is a Metrobus bus route in Washington, D.C., United States. Until the 1960s, it was a streetcar line.

Route 42 currently runs at all times, beginning at Mount Pleasant Street and 17th Street West in Mount Pleasant, and heads south on Mount Pleasant Street, Columbia Road, and Connecticut Avenue to Farragut Square, where some trips end. The remaining trips turn east on H Street North (eastbound) and I Street North (westbound) to Ninth Street West at Gallery Place-Chinatown station.^[1]

[edit] History

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In the final days of streetcars operated by the Capital Transit Company, Routes 40 and 42 served the Mount Pleasant Line. Both began at Mount Pleasant and ran to H Street, turning east there, south on 14th Street West, and east on F Street North along the F Street Line. At Fifth Street West, Route 40 turned south, continuing east around the north side of the Capitol and along East Capitol Street to 15th Street East, while Route 42 turned north and east past Union Station on the East Washington Line, ending at D Street North and 13th Street East. Streetcars were replaced by buses on December 3, 1961 (Route 42) and January 28, 1962 (Route 40).

After Metrorail was built, the line was split at Stadium-Armory station. Route 40, which had been extended east to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, was eliminated west of Stadium-Armory, while Route 42 remained the same, running between Mount Pleasant and Stadium-Armory. The portion of Route 40 on East Capitol Street west of Stadium Armory was replaced by an extension of Route 96. Route 96 has since absorbed Route 40, and Route 42 has been truncated to Gallery Place, with the removed portion replaced by a rerouted Route D6.

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