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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We dont' need fast bus service from Bethesda to Wheaton. That's what the Purple Line will be for.

The Circulator buses work well to get people around Bethesda, and to/from the Metro. If you want to go Metro station to Metro station, then take the Metro. That's not the point of the Circulator bus. [/quote]

No it is not - the Purple Line goes to Silver Spring not Wheaton.  So someone would have to transfer again which no one with means will do.

So yes the bus times from Bethesda to Wheaton should be improved, even with the Purple Line coming. And it also doesn't make to take Metro from one suburban station to another - that is actually in part what the Purple Line is for.

[b]And there aren't any Circulator buses in Bethesda or even any circulator type buses serving Bethesda[/b][/quote]

What are you talking about? Are you posting from Loudon county?

https://www.bethesda.org/bethesda/bethesda-circulator[/quote]

Fair enough - not sure how I missed as I use public transportation in Bethesda almost every week.  Still odd to not have a 2-3 linear routes - for example the Bethesda commercial corridor along 355 is .8 miles long so why not just run a straight route from Bradley to the National Library of Medicine?  Or better yet just have a bus running every 10 minutes between Friendship Heights and Medical Center that stops on the street at the Bethesda Metro so it keeps moving?

And then maybe a second linear route out Old Georgetown to Suburban which would give you a nice connection to the NIH jobs on the west end of Campus.

Instead the existing route is a very inefficient figure 8 - sure it covers most of Bethesda but I bet that is one slow bus route with all of those turns and running on all the side streets.[/quote]

:roll: They are hard to miss, big red buses (often empty) that do loops around downtown Bethesda.  You must not walk around much.[/quote]

OK snark always advances a discussion.

The places the current circulator serves are all very close to the Bethesda Metro - I don't think any part of the route is more than half a mile from the Metro. Since the bus is presumably slow and doesn't get you very far it is no surprise that no one is using it.

Or that someone like me who uses public transit in this area (and recognizes the image of the bus) has never bothered to look it up - this route has really limited utility.

Also I'm not sure it is comparable to the DC Circulator routes which again are simple linear routes (for the most part) that run over routes several miles long.[/quote]

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