No Car, No Problem:
Getting Around During JSM
The DC subway system, known as the Metro by locals The Circulator is a bus system that operates several
routes in and near downtown Washington, DC.
T
he Joint Statistical Meetings will take place passes through the National Mall and ends at the
in downtown Washington, DC, this year, Southwest Waterfront. Other Circulator routes go to
which makes public transportation a good Georgetown and Adams Morgan, which are popular
travel option. The DC subway system, known as travel destinations in DC that do not have Metro
the Metro by locals, has a station adjacent to the stations in the immediate area. The Circulator will
Washington Convention Center called the Mount accept SmarTrip for payment of fare. Similar to
Vernon Square Station. Metrobus, SmarTrip users automatically receive a
Metro fare can be paid using either paper fare transfer when paying Circulator fare that allows free
cards or a plastic SmarTrip Card; both can be pur- reboarding of any Circulator within a three-hour
chased at vending machines at Metro stations. Paper period. For more information about Circulator, visit
fare cards can be used for Metro travel only. The
www.dccirculator.com.
plastic SmarTrip Card has a one-time $5 charge in
addition to the amount added to it to cover rides.
Theodore Roosevelt Island and the
It can be used for both Metro and Metrobus travel Mount Vernon Trail
and is required to obtain transfer discounts between
Just across the Potomac River from downtown DC
Metro and Metrobus, or vice versa. Metrobus fare
is the Mount Vernon Trail, a popular trail for walk-
paid with SmarTrip is slightly less than cash fare.
ers, runners, and bicyclists. The Mount Vernon Trail
Metrobuses run from both BWI and Dulles
extends 15 miles south to Mount Vernon. A map
airports to Metro stations, offering an economical
of the trail is available at
www.nps.gov/archive/gwmp/
travel option. Reagan National Airport has an adja-
mvtmap.html. Pedestrians, runners, and bicyclists
cent Metro station. Schedules for the BWI Airport
can access the trail from downtown DC using paths
Metrobus (B30) and the Dulles Airport Metrobus
on several bridges that cross the Potomac River.
(5A) are available at
www.wmata.com. Both routes
The bridge that carries I-395 traffic from DC to
terminate at a Metro station with Green Line ser-
Virginia has a footpath that starts near the Jefferson
vice, which is one of the two Metro lines that service
Memorial. The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge near the
the Mount Vernon Square Metro station adjacent to
Lincoln Memorial also has a footpath.
the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
The northern end of the Mount Vernon Trail
Paper copies of Metrobus schedules and Metro
is at Theodore Roosevelt Island, which is accessi-
and Metrobus maps are available in the lobby of
ble only by footbridge. The island has a system of
the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
trails and an outdoor memorial to Roosevelt. More
Authority (WMATA) headquarters building at 600
information about the island is available at www.
5th Street NW.
nps.gov/archive/gwmp/tri.htm. The island is within
walking distance of the Rosslyn Metro station,
The Circulator
via a path and bridge that link the northern end
The Circulator is a bus system that operates several
of the Mount Vernon Trail to a system of hiker-
routes in and near downtown Washington, DC.
biker trails in Virginia (the Custis-I-66 Trail and the
One of the Circulator lines is a north/south route,
W. & O.D. Trail). n
with the northern end at the convention center. It
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