Wheel-Free Transit: Taking the Water Bus!

Sometimes the most direct route between two points in the Washington area is over the water of the Potomac--and that's exactly the route travelled by the Potomac Water Taxi (mislabeled bus)! Come join us for a sunny, breezy trackless transit trip from Alexandria to the Wharf in Southwest D.C. It's the perfect cap to our third transit enthusiast season!

We will meet at the foot of Cameron Street, behind the Torpedo Factory, at 11:30. The half-hour cruise up the Potomac towards the capital starts at noon. We'll dock at the vibrant Wharf and have lunch at an Italian sandwich shop in the Wharf complex called Grazie Grazie for hoagies and discussion of our watery adventure. A way home is offered by the nearby Waterfront station on the Metro Green line.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike almost all our other transit adventures, this one cannot be accessed with a Metro SmartCard. You must buy a ticket from Potomac Cruises. So visit this website and reserve your one-way ticket today!