List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)


This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, branded as Metrobus. Many are the descendants of streetcar lines operated by the Capital Transit Company or its predecessors.

Current routes

The list of Metrobus routes has been split by region:
Most Metrobus routes follow the rules below:
Odd-numbered routes are typically part-time variants of even-numbered routes. At one time, odd numbered routes were express routes, but that distinction has been abandoned. Most Maryland and Washington, D.C., routes are grouped by their first digit. When this system was laid out in 1936, the following clustering was used:
CategoryRoute numbers
Streetcars
Buses in D.C. & Maryland
  • A West Anacostia, Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Maryland
  • B Bladensburg Road, Annapolis Road, Bowie
  • C Branch Avenue, Central Avenue, University Blvd, Maryland
  • D Northwest, Suitland
  • E Northwest, Northeast, Crosstown
  • F East–West Highway, New Carrollton
  • G Northwest, Brookland, Greenbelt
  • H Bladensburg Road, Branch Avenue, Brookland, Columbia Road
  • J Silver Spring, Forestville, District Heights
  • K Forestville, New Hampshire Avenue Maryland
  • L Connecticut Avenue
  • M Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
  • N Massachusetts Avenue, National Harbor
  • P Anacostia, North Capitol Street, District Heights, Suitland, Oxon Hill
  • Q Veirs Mill Road, Maryland
  • R Riggs Road, Kenilworth Ave, Queens Chapel Road
  • S 16th Street NW
  • T Annapolis Road, Rhode Island Ave NE, River Road, Falls Road
  • U Minnesota Avenue
  • V Minnesota Avenue, Capitol Heights, Suitland, District Heights, Oxon Hill
  • W Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Oxon Hill, Indian Head
  • X H Street, Benning Road
  • Y Georgia Avenue, Maryland
  • Z US 29, Maryland
    • Buses in Virginia
  • 1 Arlington Blvd, Wilson Blvd
  • 2 Lee Hwy, Washington Blvd
  • 3 Annandale, Lee Hwy
  • 4 Arlington Blvd, Leesburg Pike
  • 5 Dulles Toll Rd, Reston
  • 7 Lincolnia, Shirlington
  • 8 Fairlington, Foxchase, Seminary Valley
  • 10 Alexandria, Ballston, Crystal City, Pentagon
  • 11 Mount Vernon
  • 15 Chain Bridge Road
  • 16 Columbia Pike
  • 17 King Park, Pentagon
  • 18 Burke, Orange Hunt, Springfield
  • 21 Crystal City, Shirlington, Landmark, Pentagon
  • 22 Ballston, Fairlington, Pentagon, Shirlington
  • 23 Crystal City, Mclean, Shirlington
  • 25 Ballston, Landmark,Pentagon, Shirlington
  • 26 Annandale, Culmore
  • 28 Falls Church, Leesburg Pike, Skyline City, Pentagon
  • 29 Annandale, Little River Turnpike, Pentagon
  • 38 Ballston, Farragut Square, Georgetown
  • MWY Alexandria, Crystal City, Jefferson Davis Hwy, Potomac Yards
  • REX Richmond Highway
  • Tags Springfield

    • Divisions