The DC Circulator bus system stopped operations at the end of 2024, and now its vehicles are up for auction on GovDeals.com for thousands of dollars a pop.
The most expensive of the buses, a 2016 New Flyer model, has a bid of $15,050.
Six 2017 Proterra electric models sit at $5,000 apiece, two 2014 New Flyer hybrids at $3,000 each and eight 2009 Van Hools with bids of $1,000 to $1,050.
The money from the sales will go toward helping former DC Circulator workers. A law establishing the fund was enacted in October by the D.C. Council with an override of a veto by Mayor Muriel Bowser.
The Circulator fund is meant to “try to take care of the drivers, the supervisors, the folks at Circulator that frankly got a raw deal,” D.C. Council member Charles Allen, Ward 6 Democrat, told Washington’s WJLA-TV in October.
To make up for the areas the Circulator system used to serve, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has expanded its own bus service temporarily through July.
Several former Circulator employees ended up getting jobs at WMATA.
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