For them to even just extend the route to GP would take a huge effort. That’s Ward Three, so Evans isn’t likely to do any heavy lifting. Moreover, the Georgetown BID probably doesn’t see much to gain in the extension. The pressure would have to come from Cheh and Glover Park.

Then if you expanded service (I wouldn’t go further north than Idaho) you could put one at Half Place, one at Calvert Street, one at Mass and Wisconsin (North of Mass by the Cathedral), and finally Newark Street.

To me it seems like tourists like the Circlulator a lot better than Metro buses and this could be an easy way to get them to the Cathedral.

Thoughts? Could they also break up lines at Washington Circle if they expanded north on Wisconsin.

A bus up to Tenleytown would get ridership to the Metro, Best Buy, Wilson High and Wilson’s awesomely renovated gym/pool.

A bus up to 2nd District Police Station (Glover/Cleveland Park) would get ridership to WholePaycheck, new Cleveland Park Giant, and restaurants.

It might make more sense for them to continue up from New Hampshire to 2oth Street to the Circle, turn right onto the Circle, and then turn right again onto 19th Street and head down.

Ken: I thought I saw somewhere where DDOT acknowledged that the stats didn’t take into account the effect of reopening the Safeway. It’s not a complete backing away from the 2%/15% number, but it’s a start. The whole study was pretty flawed in my opinion. It only looked at weekday mornings. I also doubt cutting the service would have resulted in a 15% reduction in costs. Fixed costs just aren’t cut that easily.

Andy: That’s interesting about the uniforms. I’d be shocked if we’re so close to roll-out that they’re already handing out uniforms. Maybe the driver works both routes?

Either the figure is correct, and we need to take measures to increase ridership or decrease costs (like eliminating 1 or 2 stops on Wisconsin), or the figure is misleading and we need to expose it.