The Washington Rapid Transit Company was a bus company that operated in Washington, D.C. , from 1921 to 1933.
4-581: The first formal bus company in the nation's capital, Washington Rapid Transit was incorporated on January 20, 1921. It began running bus service on March 1, 1921, with ten 21-passenger buses and on two routes covering about 5 1/2 miles of street. By 1932, it was carrying 4.5% of transit customers. Two years later, the last streetcar line was built in D.C. In 1926, it leased space in the Capital Traction Company's car barn at 4615 14th Street NW. On December 1, 1933, Washington Rapid Transit
8-766: Is a historic streetcar car barn in northwest Washington, D.C. Built in 1906 by the Capital Traction Company , it was later turned into a bus garage and is currently owned by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority . Located at 4615 14th Street NW , near the end of the 14th Street streetcar line , the two-story brick structure was designed by local architects Wood, Donn & Deming in Italian Renaissance style and built by contractors Richardson and Burgess. The building originally measured 537 by 208 feet (164 m × 63 m) and included two turntables . Starting in 1926,
12-641: The Washington Rapid Transit Company leased part of its space for use as a bus garage. It was fully converted to a bus garage in 1959 and later became WMATA’s Metrobus Northern Division garage. In 2013, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . In 2019, WMATA closed the building to replace it with a new one that will include storage and maintenance for electric buses , along with up to 27,000 square feet of retail space, streetscape improvements, and
16-763: Was merged with the Washington Railway and Electric Company and Capital Traction to form the Capital Transit Company . This article about a bus operating company in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Capital Traction Company Car Barn The Capital Traction Company Car Barn (also known as the Decatur Street Car Barn and the Northern Bus Garage )
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