Parent | City of Alexandria |
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Founded | March 1984[1] |
Headquarters | 3000 Business Center Drive, Alexandria, VA |
Service area | Alexandria, Virginia |
Service type | Bus service |
Alliance | WMATA |
Routes | 10 and the King Street Trolley[2] |
Fleet | |
Daily ridership | 14,900 (Q1 2023)[5] |
Annual ridership | 4,209,500 (2015)[6] |
Fuel type | Diesel, Diesel-electric Hybrid, Battery electric |
Operator | Alexandria Transit Company |
Website | dashbus.com |
DASH is the public bus system for the city of Alexandria, Virginia. DASH provides bus service within the City of Alexandria, and connects with Metrobus, Metrorail, Virginia Railway Express, Amtrak and other local bus systems. DASH operates 124 buses on eleven routes[7] carrying over five million passengers annually.[8] DASH operates transit services within portions of the City of Alexandria and between the City and the Pentagon Transit Station. DASH serves all of the Alexandria Metrorail Stations and the Pentagon Metrorail station.
DASH is operated by the Alexandria Transit Company (ATC), a non-profit service corporation wholly owned by the City of Alexandria. ATC is governed by an eleven person board of directors elected by the city council.[9] ATC's was formed to supplement the regional rail and bus service provided by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and to provide a local bus service to the City of Alexandria.