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kk on January 18, 2018 at 9:06 pm

"When Metrorail first extended the Green Line to Anacostia, the plan was to reroute the buses to serve the new station. This led to community protests over the higher fares charged to passengers transferring between the buses and the trains. Today, it is best to reroute buses to connect to Metrorail, a faster service with lower provision costs; however, workers east of the river will keep riding the buses alone if that option is cheaper, and would be disproportionately impacted by any proposal involving a large fare increase."

This is why they had that special fare for years in certain areas that was much below the normal fare.

They did reroute and split buses up actually the 90 and 94 use to be one route. The late night A42, A46 and A48 bus routes were the routes before Anacostia was built, and the P6 was longer also and had a different route. The part between Metro Center and Rhode Island Ave was apart of a B6 bus route at first.

The bus routes East of the River had major changes  in 88 or 89, 93, 96 and the early 2000's and about 2 years ago

With the mention of the buses East of the River you somehow forgot to mention the 96 & 97 which travel from the DC/Maryland line at Capital Heights to Tenleytown/Union Station along East Capitol Street east of the river.

They had a V2 bus route about 20 years ago that traveled between Deanwood and the Bureau of Engraving, V4 between Benning Heights & Bureau of Engraving etc.

There was an X1, X2, X3, X4, X5,X6 and X9. The X1 and X3 are basically the same as today whereas the X2 went to Capital Heights similar to how the X9 does now, the former X9 traveled from Capital Heights along East Capitol Street and then Constitution Ave to Federal Triangle, X4 almost the entirety of Benning Road from Benning Heights to Lafayette Square and the X6 from Capital Heights to Lafayette Sq via East Capitol Street & Benning Road.

The 97 ran all day as a route called the 40

The 96 operated between Stadium Armory & 14th and U Streets

The D6 was the combination of the route 44 and the D6, the 44 went from Mt Pleasant to Stadium Armory except for late night and weekends when it was extended to Capital Heights and the D6 from Sibley Hospital to Ivy City

The W4 went from Capital Plaza stopping at PG Hospital to Bolling AFB via most of its current routes except for about a 2 mile area in Congress Heights.

If you plot all the bus routes over the past 20-25 years East of the River you would see that they have actually cut service over the years tremdiously and that some of the old routes have been brought back over the years with new names.

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