Speak Up, Metro, So Your Riders Can Hear You

Extending the routes of the distinctive red Circulator buses to the new Nationals Park is a good idea, but it won't happen this year. Instead, Metro and the District plan to enhance service on the N22 Metrobus line to serve much the same purpose. That's a fine idea, too, because there must be many alternative ways of getting to games.

I have no qualms about taking this bus route through the Navy Yard, Eastern Market and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.

Right now, the N22 is a commuter bus for the burgeoning office and residential district around the Navy Yard along M Street. The transit authority plans to enhance that service so that it will serve as a baseball shuttle, providing fans with a bus link to the Blue, Orange and Red lines.

What are your thoughts on getting to and from the games? Is a bus or train ride to the game practical for those of you who take your cars to work?

Which Way?

Dear Dr. Gridlock:

Thank you for the interesting comparison between driving and riding Metro from Myers Circle SW in Vienna to Fannie Mae corporate headquarters [on Wisconsin Avenue near Van Ness Street NW].

For you, the driver, I see another option after you get onto Interstate 495 from Interstate 66: Exit at Dolley Madison Boulevard, cross Chain Bridge and turn right onto Canal Road, left onto Arizona Avenue and right onto Nebraska Avenue to Tenley Circle.

As the chickadee flies, this looks infinitely shorter than going up I-495 to the American Legion Bridge and then down River Road.

I am a veteran shunpiker and have found other ways to avoid I-495 while driving from upper Northwest Washington to Virginia.

Pat Howell