The test is expected to cost around $2.175 million, which would be covered by bus fares, a mixture of money from Prince George’s County, Maryland’s Department of Transportation, the City of Alexandria, Fairfax County, and $500,000 from National Harbor’s developer, the Peterson Group.Ī full year of service would cost closer to $2.9 million, which would be covered by the same pots of money as the pilot. That could happen as soon as July 2017, at the start of Metro’s FY2018 budget year. If they think the route is worth keeping, it would become a regular part of the Metrobus network. If the WMATA board subcommittee that’s considering the proposal approves it, the pilot would last from October 2016 to June 2017, after which WMATA staff would evaluate whether the route was worth keeping around. It’d run every half hour between the above locations, from 6 am to 1 am daily.
The route would run from National Harbor to the soon-to-open MGM Casino, then to the Oxon Hill Park and Ride and across the river to the Huntington and King Street Metro stations.
Route and service details of the proposed NH2 bus from Virginia to National Harbor.
