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.
Routes
The following routes are branded as Pike Ride service:[2]
Since 2003, some effort has been made to improve service along the corridor. In July 2016, the Arlington County Board approved a Transit Development Plan that includes enhanced bus service along Columbia Pike.[9] There will be 23 enhanced bus stops, with BRT-like amenities like near-level boarding, real-time bus arrival information and off-vehicle fare collection.[10] This proposal, called a Premium Transit Network, has since been delayed until 2019 due to Metro rebuilding efforts.[11] The use of dedicated lanes for the corridor was studied by the country, but were deemed to be challenging and unlikely. The buses could have a distinctive appearance.[12]
^United States Interstate Commerce Commission (1948). Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases, Volumes 48-49. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 617. Retrieved 2015-03-15. Respondent's present extensive operations were initiated by its predecessor, R.L. May, now president of the corporation, with one bus in the early 1920s over the Columbia Pike between Barcroft and Washington.
^United States. Government Printing Office (1954). Congressional Serial Set, Issue 11728. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2015-03-15. 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.
^United States. Congress. House Appropriations (1926). District of Columbia Appropriation Bill: 1927, Hearings ... 69th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C. pp. 52–53. Retrieved 2015-03-15. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
