The red DC Circulator buses will have their last rides in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, ending service starting in 2025. Metrobus has adjusted routes to make up for the Circulator’s absence.

Metrobus had already added service on its 38B route between Rosslyn and Farragut Square during peak hours to make up for the end of the DC Circulator’s Rosslyn-Dupont route, which stopped running on Oct. 1.

Starting on Wednesday and through July, Metrobus will run an Anacostia shuttle to Stanton and Pomeroy roads to replace the Circulator’s Union Station-Congress Heights route, the District Department of Transportation said in a release this month.

Metrobus will have more service on its 52 and 54 routes along 14th Street NW to replace the Woodley Park-McPherson Circulator route and will also merge its 31 and 33 routes through H and I streets NW. The merged Metrobus route will then extend to Union Station as a replacement for the Circulator Georgetown-Union Station route.

The areas served by the DC Circulator L’Enfant-Eastern Market and National Mall landmark routes won’t have service adjustments; the former is served by Metrorail and Metrobus routes 74, 90, 92 and P6, DDOT said.

The DC Circulator has operated six routes inside the city from 2005 through 2024 as part of a public-private partnership between DDOT and RATP Dev, a private company. 

At least 78 former DC Circulator employees have landed jobs with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, according to ABC’s WJLA-TV.

The D.C. Council also passed a bill and overrode the veto of Mayor Muriel Bowser this year that stipulated proceeds from the sale of the soon-to-be-defunct bus system’s assets be deposited in a fund to help support former Circulator employees. The act went into effect on Oct. 29.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.