District of Columbia Downtown Circulator Implementation Plan
The Need for the Downtown Circulator
Washington, DC attracts an average of 22 million visitors each year, yet there was no transit system in place to move them easily and inexpensively around the Monumental Core. The District is home to more than half a million residents, and another half a million suburban residents commute into the city each day, including some 375,000 federal workers, yet there is no transit service designed to move them around downtown once they arrive. Washington’s Metrorail and bus systems do an extraordinary job of getting residents, commuters and visitors into downtown DC, but they are not efficient at moving them around the downtown and the Monumental Core. The Downtown Circulator can fill this void.
