Pike Ride

Pike Ride is a combination of bus routes along Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia, United States. It consists of service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metrobus) and Arlington Transit (ART), connecting the Pentagon and Pentagon City Metrorail stations in Arlington County with Annandale in Fairfax County.

The service started in 2003. Route timetables and other useful information were implemented in numerous bus stops along the corridor, printed in both English and Spanish. ART provides cell phone users with an 800 number that is listed at each bus stop to call and obtain bus schedule information.

The following routes are branded as Pike Ride service:
*Metrobus 16A, 16B, 16D, 16F, 16J, 16P Columbia Pike Line to Pentagon
*Metrobus 16E Columbia Pike Line to Pentagon City (nights only)
*Metrobus 16G, 16W Columbia Heights West-Pentagon City Line
*Metrobus 16H Columbia Heights West-Pentagon City Line to Crystal City
*Metrobus 16K Columbia Heights West-Pentagon City Line to Pentagon (weekend mornings only)
*Metrobus 16L Annandale-Skyline City-Pentagon Line
*Metrobus 16Y Columbia Pike-Farragut Square Line to McPherson Square
*ART 41 Columbia Pike-Ballston-Court House
*ART 74 Douglas Park-Arlington Village-Pentagon City
*ART 75 Wakefield H.S.-Carlin Springs Rd.-Ballston

History

Robert L. May of Barcroft began operating buses along Columbia Pike in 1921, running from downtown Washington over the 14th Street Bridge to Barcroft. Among other additions, he acquired the former Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway at foreclosure in 1930 and replaced it with buses in 1932. May incorporated the Alexandria, Barcroft and Washington Transit Company in 1934. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=bweYZa5adG4C Interstate Commerce Commission Reports] , 1948, p. 617: "Respondent's present extensive operations were initiated by its predecessor, R.L. May, now president of the corporation, with one bus in the early 1920's over the Columbia Pike between Barcroft and Washington."] [ [http://books.google.com/books?num=20&id=UncuAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22alexandria+barcroft%22+1921&q=%22alexandria+barcroft%22&pgis=1#search United States Congressional Serial Set] , 1954, unpaged: "Having operated a bus line since 1921 and managed a street railway company from 1930 until the Federal Government confiscated the railway rights-of-way in Washington, D.C., in 1932, R. L. May, in December 1934, formed the A.B. & W. Corp., turning over to it all working capital and assets used by his bus line, including a garage and terminal on Pitt and Cameron Streets in Alexandria."] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=cJ2FfDI_D3IC District of Columbia Appropriation Bill, 1927] , pp. 52-53: "Columbia Pike Line.—Route 202. Louisiana Avenue, between Eighth and Ninth Streets NW., to Barcroft, Va., via Louisiana Avenue, Eighth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Thirteenth Street, C Street, Ohio Avenue, Fourteenth Street, Highway Bridge, Military Road, Alexandria Road and Columbia Pike. For: Arlington, Columbia Station, Johnson Hill, Barcroft, East Arlington."] This company continued independent operation until February 4, 1973, when WMATA acquired it.Fact|date=June 2007

References

External links

* [http://www.commuterpage.com/PikeRide/ CommuterPage.com] : Pike Ride