D.C. streetcars coming back?
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D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) is expected to announce Wednesday that the city has found enough money to restore funding for street car service in the District. Earlier Wednesday, the council approved taking $49 million from the streetcars to use to balance city's budget and help fund other projects. That vote effectively delayed the launch of the streetcars by two years.
-- Nikita Stewart
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Funding restored for D.C. streetcars
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D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray said he has worked with the office of the Chief Financial Officer to come up with money that would allow the city to restore funding for streetcars.
Gray spokeswoman Doxie McCoy said $10 million would be made available immediately to purchase street cars in fiscal 2011. Another $37 million would be place in reserve pending an operations and funding proposal from Mayor Adrian Fenty. The council would then have to approve the proposal.
The decision to restore funding came just hours after the council said they would pull money from the streetcars to fund other services. But within moments of the decision, the council was inundated with calls.
-- Nikita Stewart
Fantastic news!
ReplyDeleteGreat work to all of us. I have no idea what's wrong with Vince Gray or the rest of the Council that they let it come to this, but we made them fix it over our lunch breaks. Pretty incredible citizen activism here. Thanks to everyone who called, emailed, blogged, twittered, etc.
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