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1) The paint on the side of the bus: the design that acted as a sort of system map is outdated and must be reconsidered. It now only shows a fraction of the places the circulators go. This design was very short sighted, or the lack of attention to updating it was a serious mistake.

2) With 5 lines now, we need some sort of differentiation between them, both on the maps and at the stops. Colors, numbers, names? Something.

3) The circulator system seems very bi-polar. Some actually circulate (like the K St. line) and others act more like express buses (the new Adams Morgan line). It's a shame that the Adams Morgan bus doesn't stop anywhere near the center of activity. The stops are so far apart that few people will use the bus. People can now take the circulator to Columbia Heights from Adams Morgan, but they'll have to walk to Calvert and Lanier to do so. The next stop isn't until 16th Street, a half mile away, and so close to CoHi that it makes no sense to take the bus from there. It should stop more frequently in activity centers.

4) Bus service is already good along 14th street, and Thomas Circle is a mess. Why route more buses along there? How about going north/south on 11th instead, providing more service to under-served communities and avoiding bottlenecks.

by meichler on Apr 2, 2009 12:18 pm • link • report