Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Streetcars update, coming early 2012
The ANCs, Tommy Wells, and DDOT put on a pretty interesting meeting last night to approximately 100 attendees regarding streetcar development on H Street. The short of it is that there is real reason to expect the streetcars to be running from Union Station at 1st Street up through a hole in the hopskotch bridge and down H Street to Benning Road by early 2012. At the meeting, they showed the plans for punching a hole in the middle of the bridge, the connection to Union Station at 1st and H, where the maintaince facilities are (under the bridge) and a turn around at Benning Road/Oklahoma Ave, and explained that everything should be fully operational by Spring 2012. They also talked a lot about their expansion efforts and there will likely be a technology showcase for wireless/wire systems in the next few months.
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Why aren't they connecting it up with the Minnesota Ave Metro Station. I thought that was part of the plan. It's seems trange to just turn around at Oklahoma Ave.
ReplyDeleteGGW has more. http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=5593
ReplyDeleteThey still hope extend it across the river to the metro station, but that wont happen by Spring 2012. They recently applied for federal funding to cover that extension.