Share your input on Metro’s Better Bus Visionary Framework of redesigned bus routes by June 18, 2023. Metro officials explained that this visionary framework is what Metro would implement if it had about 35 percent more funding. Some pieces of the framework may be implemented in the short term.

We previously covered several of the proposed routes around the Riggs Park neighborhood in this Better Bus post. Check out that post for details about proposed routes.

A few things worth mentioning to Metro:

• Do not shorten the E4 crosstown route to Riggs Park (draft DC200 and DC203 routes). The routes should run more frequently than every 15 or 20 minutes. The existing E4 route on the Better Bus site does not even show the route to Riggs Park (and yes they are aware, I have mentioned this to Metro). Traveling east from Fort Totten metro, the existing route crosses South Dakota Avenue with stops at the Lamond-Riggs Library, South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road across from Walmart, and then travels along Chillum Place to Eastern Avenue. The westbound route takes a different path through the neighborhood. Tell Metro to keep the northern east-west crosstown route all the way to the Riggs Park neighborhood rather than cutting it off at Fort Totten metro station as contemplated in both the DC200 and DC203 routes.
• Metro already cut the 80 route to Kennedy Center. The draft DC110 route likewise ends at McPherson Square. Metro officials said they are not bringing the Kennedy Center route back, but they should. It is good that this route would run 24 hours.
• Support the new DC207. This route is stylized on the Better Bus site as a variant of the existing E2 route, but it is really an entirely new route altogether. The route would run from Fort Totten metro station down South Dakota Avenue to Fort Lincoln and continue on to Deanwood. It should run more frequently than every 20 minutes.
• Support the new route between Fort Totten and Union Market (DC302). It should run more frequently than every 30 minutes.

On May 25, 2023, Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker sent a letter to Metro with recommendations on the framework. Read CM Parker Better Bus Letter.

Let Metro know what you think by June 18.