This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus. Many are the descendants of streetcar lines operated by the Capital Transit Company or its predecessors.
Numbering
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Bus routes operating in or through Virginia are noted with a number and a letter (1A, 1C, 7H, etc). Bus routes operating in DC usually have a number (30, 50, 70, etc) or a letter and a number (A2, B2, E4, X2, etc). Maryland bus routes usually use a letter and two numbers (H12, P12, V12. etc), but there are exceptions, as noted below.
Odd-numbered routes are typically part-time variants of even-numbered routes. At one time, odd numbered routes were express routes, but that distinction has been abandoned. Most D.C. and Maryland routes are grouped by their first digit. When this system was laid out in 1936, the following clustering was used:
Streetcars
- 10 Columbia Line
- 20 Cabin John Line
- 30 Pennsylvania Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue Line
- 40 Mount Pleasant Line
- 50 Fourteenth Street Line
- 60 Eleventh Street, Upshur Street and New Hampshire Avenue Line
- 70 Seventh Street and Georgia Avenue Line
- 80 College Park and North Capitol Street Line
- 90 U Street Line
Buses in DC & Maryland
- A West Anacostia, Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Maryland
- B Bladensburg Road, Annapolis Road, Bowie
- C Branch Avenue, Central Avenue, University Blvd, Maryland
- D Northwest, Suitland
- E Northwest, Northeast, Crosstown
- F East-West Highway, New Carrollton
- G Northwest, Brookland, Greenbelt
- H Bladensburg Road, Branch Avenue, Brookland, Columbia Road
- J Silver Spring, Forestville, District Heights
- K Forestville, New Hampshire Avenue Maryland
- L Connecticut Avenue
- M Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
- N Massachusetts Avenue, National Harbor
- O Branch Avenue/Hillcrest Heights/Montgomery Suburban
- P Anacostia, North Capitol Street, District Heights, Suitland, Oxon Hill
- Q Veirs Mill Road, Maryland
- R Riggs Road, Kenilworth Ave, Queens Chapel Road
- S 16th Street NW
- T Annapolis Road, Rhode Island Ave NE, River Road, Falls Road
- U Minnesota Avenue
- V Minnesota Avenue, Capitol Heights, Suitland, District Heights, Oxon Hill
- W Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Oxon Hill, Indian Head
- X H Street, Benning Road
- Y Georgia Avenue, Maryland
- Z US 29, Maryland
Buses in Virginia
- 1 Arlington Blvd, Wilson Blvd
- 2 Lee Hwy, Washington Blvd
- 3 Annandale, Lee Hwy
- 4 Arlington Blvd, Leesburg Pike
- 5 Dulles Toll Rd, Reston
- 6 Alexandria, Parkfairfax, South Fairlington
- 7 Lincolnia, Shirlington
- 8 Fairlington, Foxchase, Seminary Valley
- 9 Alexandria, Crystal City, Huntington, Pentagon
- 10 Alexandria, Ballston, Crystal City, Pentagon
- 11 Alexandria, Mount Vernon
- 12 Centreville, Little Rocky Run, Sully
- 13 Arlington, Alexandria, Crystal City
- 14 Arlington Ridge Road, Bucknell, Huntington
- 15 Chain Bridge Road
- 16 Columbia Pike
- 17 King Park, Pentagon
- 18 Burke, Orange Hunt, Springfield
- 19 Lorton, Huntington
- 20 Arlington Blvd/Lee Hwy, Chantilly, Fair Ridge, Fairfax
- 21 Crystal City, Shirlington, Landmark, Pentagon
- 22 Ballston, Fairlington, Pentagon, Shirlington
- 23 Crystal City, Mclean, Shirlington
- 24 Mclean, Ballston, Chain Bridge Road
- 25 Ballston, Landmark,Pentagon, Shirlington
- 26 Annandale, Culmore
- 27 Hayfield Farms, Franconia, Saratoga
- 28 Falls Church, Leesburg Pike, Skyline City, Pentagon
- 29 Annandale, Little River Turnpike, Pentagon
- 38 Ballston, Farragut Square, Georgetown
- MWY Alexandria, Crystal City, Jefferson Davis Hwy, Potomac Yards
- REX Richmond Highway
- Tags Springfield
Current routes
District of Columbia lines
Maryland lines
Virginia lines
School routes
These routes connect schools to Washington Metro stations or other local points. They are primarily intended for students, but are open to anyone, and stop at all stops along their routes.
- A31, A32, A33: Anacostia High School Line, introduced on November 21, 2005
- D31, D32, D33, D34: Deal Junior High School Line
- D51: Duke Ellington School of the Arts Line
- E32: Eastern High School Line
- S35: John Philip Sousa Middle School Line
- S41: Spingarn High School Line
- W45, W47: Woodrow Wilson High School Line
Former routes
References
- Metrobus timetables, accessed October 2017.
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