In recent years, I have occasionally raised the alarm about possible WMATA plans that would eliminate or otherwise significantly reduce certain bus lines through Georgetown. Today I am warning you of another elimination, but in name only.
That’s because WMATA is beginning a process to rename every bus route it runs, including our D2, D6, G2, and 30 series routes. (Not the Circulator though. That’s run by DDOT.) The idea behind the move is that the current names are a confusing jumble of different letters and numbers that is difficult for a non-regular bus rider to understand. The agency is asking the public to offer suggestions of better naming systems. They ask you to take this survey to submit your ideas.
The current system is a product of the history of transit in the city. The routes that are just numbers are legacy streetcar lines. Lines that begin with letters are newer routes added in the WMATA era. So for nostalgics (like myself) the loss of these legacy route names will be a bit of a sad day. And, to be honest, I can’t really think of a route naming system that would really be any better than the random jumble we have now. Can we really give every route some sort of a geographic name that won’t be either cumbersome or misleading? Would simply switching to a new set of letters or numbers really do anything but make every current bus rider learn a new set of letters or numbers?
If you’ve got better ideas, though, please submit them!
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
I agree with GeorgetownMetropolitan that this is a largely useless exercise. Regardless of the bus’s label, one will always want to know EXACTLY where it goes in relation to your objective, and once you know that, what the bus is called is irrelevant.
One other comment: I began to take the survey offered, but it goes on so long that I gave up. Whoever designed that survey forgot that if you seek too much information/detail, you lose the patience of the readers (who have other things to do) and the survey sample accordingly will be smaller and less reliable. “More” in fact becomes “less.”