This post was written by Hatchet staff writer Rachael Gerendasy.

A senior and top neighborhood leader has created a plan for a new bus route that would connect Foggy Bottom to Dupont Circle and U Street.

Senior Patrick Kennedy, who was recently elected chair of the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission, wants to add the neighborhood’s first Circulator stop, connecting it to some of the most popular off-campus destinations for students.

“It’s simple, and it connects to areas that GW students want to go to. In addition, GW students are unique among all the groups that would potentially benefit from the route in that we are literally almost 100 percent transit dependent population,” Kennedy told a group of neighborhood leaders Wednesday.

The route is still several years away because it will rely on a bus route through the National Mall that is not slated to begin service until 2015, Kennedy said.

But he will present the idea – which is already backed by the Dupont Circle ANC – at next week’s semi-annual Circulator meeting, hosted by the District Department of Transportation.

Kennedy also said the plan already has a “critical mass of support,” and hopes to get support from Foggy Bottom’s Council member Jack Evans on the project.

Junior and ANC commissioner Peter Sacco called Kennedy “the bus guy” and says he supports the plan “100 percent” because of its low cost, convenience and connections to popular areas of the city.

“A lot of students are intimidated by the bus system,” Sacco said. “I think we all have this fear that we are going to get on the bus and not know where we are going and end up in some strange neighborhood. The Circulator is not that way.”