DC Streetcar ridership is growing, and people are still riding the X2 and X9 buses, too
By Bryan Rodda
Dec. 15, 2016
Greater Greater Washington
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"DC’s two-mile streetcar route overlaps two popular Metrobus lines, the X2 and X9, and when the streetcar started some wondered whether it would poach those lines’ riders. WMATA recently crunched the data, and it turns out overall transit ridership along the H Street/Benning Road corridor is up 15% since February.
The X2 and X9 Metrobus lines carry about 14,000 daily riders between Minnesota Avenue Metro station and 16th Street NW in downtown DC via H Street. For a two-mile stretch along H Street and Benning Road NE, the DC Streetcar overlaps the bus lines. This situation suggested the streetcar and bus lines might compete for the same riders in a zero-sum game that would limit each service’s potential..."
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