Talk:History of surface transit in Northern Virginia/Route notes
The second column is green if the old route evolved into the current (or last existing) route, red if it didn't, and not colored if I can't tell.
| # | 2002 | 1927 | Old # | 1976 | 1980 | 1980 bridge | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilson Boulevard-Fairfax (also 1989) | 207 | WV&M 1 | Wilson Boulevard | Wilson Boulevard | Key; Roosevelt | |
| 2 | Washington Boulevard (also 1989); 2T Tysons Corner-Dunn Loring; 2W Vienna-Oakton (also 1989) | 206 | WV&M 2 | Washington Boulevard | Washington Boulevard | Key; Roosevelt | |
| 3 | Lee Highway; 3T Pimmit Hills; 3Z Westpark-West Falls Church (1987) | 208 | WV&M 3 | Lee Highway; 3Z Tysons Corner Express | Lee Highway | Key; Roosevelt | (Assuming this started as the A&S route) Alexandria and Suburban Motor Vehicle Company began operating between Georgetown and Fairfax on June 6, 1925;[1] soon extended to downtown;[2] bought by AB&W in 1926?[3] |
| 4 | Pershing Drive-Arlington Boulevard; 4C Culmore-Ballston (1989) | WV&M 4 | Pershing Drive-Arlington Boulevard | Pershing Drive | Key; Roosevelt | ||
| 5 | 5B Reston North (1989); 5N Reston-Crystal City (1990); 5S Herndon-West Falls Church (1989) | 203 | WV&M 5 | Chain Bridge Road; 5X Vienna Express | 5X Vienna Express; 5Y Herndon; 5Z Tysons Corner | 14th (5X); Roosevelt (5Y; 5Z) | 5X became LINK Route 585 according to Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, Fairfax in Brief, April 29, 1999 - it was either moved or a completely new route; the rest probably became part of Route 15 |
| 6 | 6A Bradlee-South Fairlington (1989) | AB&W 6 | Parkfairfax | Parkfairfax | 14th | Appears to have become part of 25 | |
| 7 | Lincolnia-North Fairlington (also 1987) | AB&W 7 | Lincolnia | Lincolnia-North Fairlington | Memorial; 14th | ||
| 8 | Foxchase-Seminary Valley | AB&W 8 | Shirley Duke | Shirley Duke | Memorial; 14th | ||
| 9 | Richmond Highway (Fort Belvoir-Pentagon in 1990) | 201 Alexandria, Barcroft & Washington? | AB&W 9 | Fort Belvoir | Fort Belvoir | 14th | AB&W was Red Line; ran past the intersection of Russell Road and Walnut Street[4] |
| 10 | 10A, 10E Hunting Towers-Pentagon (also 1990); 10B Hunting Towers-Ballston (Alexandria-Arlington in 1990; Alexandria-Arlington-Pentagon in 1987); 10P Mount Vernon Avenue-Potomac Yard-Crystal City | AB&W 10 | Alexandria-Arlington | (didn't enter DC) | N/A | See [5] | |
| 11 | 11P Hunting Towers-Potomac Yard-Crystal City (Mount Vernon in 1987); 11Y Mount Vernon Express | AB&W 11 | National Airport | Mount Vernon/George Washington Parkway | Memorial; 14th | ||
| 12 | 12C, 12D Centreville North (12C Centreville Express in 1989); 12E, 12F Centreville South; 12L, 12M Little Rocky Run-Vienna; 12R, 12S Sully Station-Vienna | AB&W 12 | Alexandria-Washington: Braddock Heights | Alexandria-Washington | Memorial; 14th | Probably replaced by AT4 in December 1983 | |
| 13 | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport-Pentagon-DC | 205? | AB&W 13 | Alexandria-Washington: Potomac Yards | Evolved into the current 13? | ||
| 14 | Montgomery-Tysons Beltway Express | 205? | AB&W 14 | Alexandria-Washington: Arlington Ridge Road | Appears to have become part of 10 | ||
| 15 | Chain Bridge Road | 205? | AB&W 15 | Alexandria-Washington: Russell Road | Probably replaced by AT3 in December 1983 | ||
| 16 | Columbia Pike (also 1987); 16L Annandale-Skyline City-Pentagon; 16S, 16U, 16W, 16X Shirlington-Pentagon (also 1987); 16Y Columbia Pike-Farragut Square | 202 Columbia Pike | AB&W 16, 5 (16U) | Columbia Pike | Columbia Pike | Memorial; 14th | See Pike Ride |
| 17 | Kings Park; 17G, 17H, 17K, 17L Kings Park Express | AB&W 17 | Kings Park | Kings Park | 14th | ||
| 18 | Springfield; 18G, 18H, 18J Orange Hunt; 18P, 18R, 18S Burke Centre | AB&W 18 | Springfield | Springfield | Memorial; 14th | ||
| 19 | 19L Lorton Express (1987) | AB&W 19 | Huntington | Huntington | 14th | Mostly replaced by Fairfax Connector's first routes on September 29, 1985 - or was that 27? Lorton Express Line seems to have become 383 Lorton Line (I-395 to Pentagon),[6] split between 171 and 380 on September 26, 2004[7] | |
| 20 | Chantilly-Greenbriar | 209? | WV&M 6 | Arlington Boulevard | Arlington Boulevard; 20E Fairfax City Express | Key (20); Roosevelt (20); 14th (20E) | |
| 21 | Landmark-Pentagon | Crystal City-Shirlington; 21S Shirlington-Rosslyn | 21A Columbia Pike; 21S Walter Reed Drive | Memorial (21A); Key (21S) | |||
| 22 | Walker Chapel-Pentagon (also 1990) | WV&M? | Washington Boulevard-Pentagon | 22F Washington Boulevard | 14th | Arlington and Fairfax Motor Transportation Company operated Washington to Falls Church via 14th Street Bridge and Washington Boulevard; cut back to Glebe Road in or soon after 1938; acquired by WV&M in 1947 and probably extended back west | |
| 23 | McLean-Crystal City (also 1987) | WV&M 8 | Glebe Road; 23S Glebe Road | Glebe Road | 14th | Arlington and Fairfax Motor Transportation Company operated south of Washington Boulevard after 1938; acquired by WV&M in 1947 and probably extended north | |
| 24 | 24M, 24P Ballston-Pentagon; 24T McLean Hamlet-East Falls Church | Arlington Boulevard Line | N/A | N/A | |||
| 25 | Ballston-Bradlee-Pentagon; 25B Landmark-Ballston (also 1987) | Oakton-Pentagon; 25A Rosslyn-National Airport | (didn't enter DC) | N/A | |||
| 26 | Burke Centre-Dunn Loring (1989) | AB&W 1 | Alexandria-Arlington | (didn't enter DC) | N/A | ||
| 27 | Saratoga (1987) | AB&W 2 | Hayfield Farms | Rose Hill | 14th | Became Fairfax Connector 108 Telegraph Road Line,[8] replaced by 109 Rose Hill Line on September 26, 2004[9] Saratoga Line is now Fairfax Connector 304 | |
| 28 | 28A, 28B Alexandria-Tysons Corner; 28F, 28G Skyline City; 28T Tysons Corner-West Falls Church | AB&W 3; WV&M 7? | Skyline Center; 28A Alexandria-Tysons Corner | 28G Skyline Center | 14th | ||
| 29 | Annandale (also 1987); 29K, 29N Alexandria-Fairfax | 205? | AB&W 4 | Annandale-Pentagon; 29A Alexandria-North Springfield; 29Z Greenbrier | 29E-X Annandale; 29Z Greenbrier | 14th | (Assuming this started as the A&S route) Alexandria and Suburban Motor Vehicle Company got franchise in 1925 between Washington and Alexandria;[10] bought by AB&W in 1926[11] |
| M6 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Rosslyn-Union Station | Key | |
| R3-6 | N/A | N/A | N/A | R-3 existed; R-4 Calverton-Crystal City | Crystal City | 14th |
Alexandria-Washington Buses, Inc. (Blue Line) stopped operations between Arlington and Washington on July 23, 1932;[12] ran past the intersection of Russell Road and Walnut Street[13]
AB&W took over Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway on March 20, 1930[14]
Washington-Alexandria Transit Company (Green Line) between Washington and Camp Humphreys (Fort Belvoir);[15] used Russell Road;[16] probably discontinued very early (bankrupt in 1921)
AB&W had routes to the southwest and south (along and south of Columbia Pike), plus Alexandria-Arlington and Seven Corners
WV&M had routes to the west (along and north of Arlington Boulevard), plus Washington Boulevard-Pentagon and Glebe Road