DC – Rehoboth for $35 (Photo: Luis Gomez Photos)

Hat tip to dcist where you can get the full story:

Low-cost intercity bus carrier DC2NY has announced new service between Washington and the Delaware beaches this summer.

Looks like tickets will be $35 each way… more than a trip to NYC on the bus?

The double-decker Megabus to New York leaves DC from H Street NW. (Photo: Megabus Web site.)

So, the weekend approaches and you are ready to go… to get out of Borderstan (lovely though our little autonomous region may be). New York City awaits. The trip to Gotham takes about four to five hours, depending on traffic. We’ve haven’t taken Megabus (pictured) yet, but the double decker is appealing; we hope to check it out soon. Anyone have Megabus experiences to share?

But once in New York, it’s just as important to know what NOT to do as is what not to miss. So, we bring this write up from MSNBC.com of “Ten things not to do in New York City” (with alternative recommendations), so you can make the best of that weekend in New York City. Reader feedback is greatly appreciated: Do you like the warnings? Have more things to NOT do in NYC you’d like to add?

WMATA has announced the holiday schedule for metrorail and bus service. (Image: Luis Gomez, One Photograph A Day.)

From WMATA: Metrorail and Metrobus will operate on a regular weekday schedule Christmas Eve (Wednesday, December 24), a Sunday schedule on Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25), a regular weekday schedule with a 2 a.m. closing on New Year’s Eve (Wednesday, December 31) and a Sunday schedule on New Year’s Day (Thursday, January 1).  Read the full story

The Intelligent Traveler at National Geographic’s blog compares the low-cost bus options—the “Chinatown Bus” as we call it—between Washington and New York:

The low-cost bus routes between Washington DC and New York City have become a perennial travel story, one that we ourselves covered first in June 2006, and then again this year with the launch of the BoltBus and Megabus $1 fares. But we had yet to sit down and look at how they compare to each other, so we figured now, as everyone tightens their belts a bit, would be the perfect time. And of course, with the holiday seasons upon us and Inauguration weekend approaching, New York and D.C. are sure to be popular destinations over the next couple months.

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Image courtesy of Greater Greater Washington

Greater Greater Washington (GGW) has a good post today on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) review of D.C. city bus lines:

WMATA is comprehensively reviewing many of its bus lines, such as the S1/2/4 lines on 16th. They recently announced another round of reviews including the very complex D1/2/3/4/5/6 buses. When evaluating these buses, WMATA should keep in mind a very simple principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS). Our bus map is hugely complex, and as a result, most people only know the one or two lines that they take every day to commute. Everyone else avoids buses, except maybe the Circulator.

• Read full post.
• WMATA Map (PDF).

From Greater Greater Washington about possible improvements the Washinton Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is considering for the 16th Street bus lines: “Improving the 16th Street Bus.”

WMATA recently announced that they’re looking to improve bus service on 16th Street. There’s another public meeting on September 23; be sure to visit the Metrobus 16th Street Line page for details. (Emphasis mine.)

They’ve already had one public meeting (PDF) on July 15, and the attendees broke into small groups to discuss the current problems with the route (mostly bus crowding, bunching, schedule adherence and travel speed issues). According to a recent Washington Post article, Metrobus operates about 75% “on-time” for all routes, defined as between two minutes early and seven minutes late. There’s probably a high amount of variability between lines.

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