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.