The Washington Redskins no longer will provide shuttle bus service from the Landover Metro station to FedEx Field during home games, the team said Tuesday.
New federal regulations prohibit Metro from running charter bus services — which the transit agency has traditionally done for organizations such as the Redskins and Wolf Trap — if there are private companies willing to do it.
The Redskins applied for a federal waiver from the new rules to allow the Metro shuttle bus service to continue but was granted a reprieve for only the first three weeks of the season, which officials opted not to take.
Redskins spokesman Karl Swanson said private charter service would increase the shuttle bus fares from $6 to $20 per person.
“The cost was prohibitively expensive,” Swanson said. “Why should someone now pay $20 for shuttle bus service when they can walk less than a mile to the field from the Metro station?”
The shuttle buses from the Orange Line Landover station were put in place before the Blue Line Morgan Boulevard station — which is about a mile from the football field — opened in 2004.
