While C7 would keep operating on the same route it had been operating on between the Greenbelt Metro Station & Verizon Chesapeake Complex in Fairland, MD, C7 was rerouted to no longer return back from the Verizon Chesapeake Complex, onto the intersection of Old Columbia Pike when operating towards the Glenmont Metro Station, to rejoin the C7 Metrobus Route at the intersection of Randolph Road & Old Columbia Pike in Fairland, MD, but instead operate via Muskgrove Road, Fairland Road, & Tamarack Road, and instead rejoin C9 at the intersection of Randolph Road & Tamarack Road in Fairland, MD.