If you ride the Circulator, a new map tool for the web and smartphones by Jim Blakeslee from Geocentric can help you track buses and get arrival predictions.

Image from CirculatorMap.com

The home page shows each line, including which ones are seasonally inactive (the Mall loop, right now). Clicking on any individual line gives you a screen with a link to a live map for that line, or the real-time predictions for every stop in one or the other direction.

There’s also a full map (shown above), which gives a nice overall view of the system. For most individual riders’ needs when taking a specific trip, the individual line pages and maps will most likely be the most useful.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.