Attention 42 Metrobus Riders: Meet the 43
In a recent City Desk poll of the city's worst bus lines, one in particular got a whole lot of attention: The 42, which runs from Mount Pleasant to downtown via Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle.
Looks like the 42's about to get a bastard cousin.
Blogger Connetiquette Ave discovers through his eagle eyes that Metro has posted signs for a new 43 line, though no information about the route has been published in public fora, including its new Web site.
So he made like a reporter and called Metro and found out that, yes indeed, a 43 line will be in place starting Dec. 28. Here's the skinny:
It will be a weekday rush hour only service, between 750am and 915am (meaning it will only run Southbound). About 1/2 of the buses currently designated as 42s will henceforth be badged as 43s. It will run between Mount Pleasant and Farragut Square. It seems to me that the 43 will just be the 42 buses that currently run between MtP and FSq - so there will be no service increases or reductions.
Bah!
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5:05 pm
I feel strongly that the 42 bus route should be expanded at least to go to Columbia Heights given all the new development, and perhaps a few blocks further to the Georgia Ave/Petworth metro stop (which would be better justified once more development occurs there).
Most bus routes travel north/south, unlike the 42 - which provides a great service by connecting neighborhoods on the red line (Dupont, Adams Morgan) with those on the green line (Mt Pleasant).
Some may say metro already provides the needed service of connecting the red and green lines. While changing trains at Gallery Place isn't that much of a hassle, what a bus route allows that a metro route doesn't, is the ability to hop off, hop on at several stops along the route, for running errands while commuting.