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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]

That is what circulator buses do. They circulate.[/quote]

Yes, but they are very often empty despite being free of charge.  Whereas the Ride On buses taking people to/from the Bethesda and Friendship Heights Metro are not, even though they are a ridiculous 2$/ride.  Bethesda needs some better transportation specialists.[/quote]

Every time I've ridden them, I've never been alone for at least part of my ride. They actually keep statistics on usage and it's fairly well-used.. 1,200 riders per day:
https://www.bethesda.org/sites/default/files/u14/Annual_Report_2017-2018_BUP.pdf

To put that number in perspetive, Bethesda's metro station sees, about 10,000 boardings per day.
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