News and Press Releases

Service Notice:  Air Conditioning - April 11, 2013

This is to update you on air conditioning on Circulator buses in response to the many inquiries that we have received this week.
If you are riding buses numbered 1101-1129, they can become quite warm on high temperature days.

Updated March 14, 2013, 4:35pm
Due to road closures for the Rock n Roll Marathon, being held on the morning of Saturday, March 16, 2013, Circulator service will have disruptions in the Woodley Park and Adams Morgan neighborhoods.

Service will be suspended starting from Columbia Road to Woodley Park until the race ends and all roads are cleared and reopened. For now, we plan to suspend service from 7am - 2pm, or until roads are opened.

Buses will travel northbound towards Columbia Heights on 14th Street, turning around at Girard Street and continuing southbound, back on 14th Street. Supervisors will be posted at this intersection to help direct and answer questions.

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Please be advised, due to the planned Presidential Inauguration security perimeter and vehicle restrictions on Monday, January 21, along with the need to use the Circulator bus fleet for special transportation assignments, there will be no Circulator service on Monday, January 21. Regular service will resume for all routes on Tuesday, January 22.

The DC Circulator will extend service hours for New Year’s Eve, Monday, December 31st. Service hours for the night will mirror weekend service hours for the following lines:

Georgetown - Union Station will remain in service from Whitehaven to McPherson Square until 2am.

Dupont Circle - Georgetown - Rosslyn will remain in service until 2am.

Woodley Park - Adams Morgan - McPherson Square will remain in service until 3:30am.

Union Station - Navy Yard and Potomac Ave - Skyland routes will end service at 7pm (their regular winter weekday hours).

New Year’s Day, January 1, 2013, will have regular service hours. View Bus Routes and Schedules to see all five routes and hours of service.

Due to construction* at Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, NW, the Dupont Circle - Georgetown - Rosslyn route will end service one hour early on Sunday, December 2, at 11pm. The Georgetown - Union Station route will turn around at Washington Circle beginning at 11pm Sunday until service ends at midnight. We apologize for any inconveniences and thank you for riding the DC Circulator.

*The intersection will be closed from 11pm Sunday to 4am Monday, December 3. 

Updated 12:30pm, Tuesday, October 30.
DC Circulator will resume full service at 2pm today, Tuesday, October 30, on all five routes. Service will maintain regular hours on Wednesday, October 31. Please allow extra time for travel as delays may occur due to storm cleanup. Continue to avoid standing water and as always, stay safe and thank you choosing the Circulator!


Updated 9:30pm, Monday, October 29, 2012
The DC Circulator will remain closed through Tuesday morning (October 30), but we hope to resume at least partial service Tuesday afternoon. DDOT will make a weather evaluation in the morning and check for downed trees or wires and flooding. If the routes are safe, DDOT anticipates having enough operators to resume limited service Tuesday afternoon. We'll provide additional information in the late morning. Until then, stay safe and dry!

Circulator service hours will be extended on the Union Station - Navy Yard route to accommodate Nationals fans attending this week's playoff games.

• Wednesday, October 10 (Game Time: 1pm) - Regular service hours will run due to early game time - 6am-7pm
• Thursday, October 11 (Game Time: 4pm) - Service 6am - midnight (5 hours additional service)
• Friday, October 12 (Game Time: 8:30pm) - Service 6am - 1am or until 45 minutes after end of game (6 additional service hours)

Please allow extra time for travel to and from the stadium. Information about all the transportation options for getting to Nationals Park is available online at nationals.com/waytogo.

Due to the Barracks Row Fall Festival, roads will be closed from 7am to 6pm on Saturday, September 22, resulting in slight route detours of two Circulator routes - Potomac Ave Metro - Skyland via Barracks Row and Union Station - Navy Yard:

The Circulator is running regular service for the July 4 holiday with no planned route detours. If any detours occur due to unplanned street closures related to Independence Day events throughout the city, we will provide updates through Twitter. Please follow us on Twitter @DCCirculator for real-time service updates. 

Due to the Taste of Georgetown event scheduled for June 2, 2012, westbound service to Georgetown/Whitehaven will operate normal service to Washington Circle. Service will then continue straight onto Pennsylvania Avenue to M St and then make a right turn onto Wisconsin Avenue. The following two (2) stops will not be serviced: 30th and K St. and Wisconsin and K St. There will be no impact to eastbound service other than possible traffic delays. We appreciate your patience.

DC Circulator hours extended for Summer, starting Monday, April 2, through September 30 on Union Station - Navy Yard Metro route and Potomac Avenue Metro - Skyland via Barracks Row route.

(Washington, D.C.)  The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) launched a new, redesigned website for the DC Circulator today. The new DCCirculator.com features more interactive, modern visuals and creates a more user-friendly platform to display bus route and bus information in an easy-to-view format.  The website completes a set of changes for the DC Circulator that began this past September including the addition of the new Potomac Avenue-Skyland route and the consolidation of stops along various routes to increase efficiency and overall service.

You spoke, we listened! Many riders have been asking for a more direct connection from the Navy Yard route to Union Station. Beginning on October 3, 2011, buses will no longer travel west on Constitution Avenue and north on Louisiana Avenue to reach Union Station.

Several closely spaced Circulator stops will be consolidated or eliminated along the Georgetown-Union Station route. While this may require an extra walk of one or two blocks, reducing the number of closely spaced stops will speed buses along the route and help us maintain our reliable 10-minute headways to get you where you want to go faster. Circulator is adding one stop at the request of the nearby community, at the very end of the Georgetown-Union Station route where it turns around on 35th Street NW.