Newspaper Column: RA Joins the Bus Battle

Abstract

In the beginning, there was the gleam in Karl Ingebritsen’s eye as he and fellow Restonians invented their own bus system. In those days riders usually walked a short distance from their homes to catch a bus that delivered them to downtown Washington. The bus was a hybrid feeder-express: from Reston’s boundaries to major employment zones downtown, it operated without stops as an express, but within Reston the bus circulated as a self-feeder to pick up riders in the morning and drop them off in the evening.