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Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Sat Nov 1 08:42:12 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Nov 1 01:29:22 2025. Nowhere to nowhere w/few trip generators. a completely separate repair shop for a tiny fleet. What could possibly go wrong?The plan for a city wide streetcar network never really got past the early planing and study stages. The H Street Benning Road Streetcar line only came into existence because the District of Columbia Department of Transportation contracted for a total rebuilding of H Street and Benning Road along with all of the utilities under it. Long term plans had a streetcar line along the segments that were being total rebuilt. They decided pay the extra money to add the track during that reconstruction instead of ripping up the street couple of years later to add the tracks. Another short segment of streetcar tracks was also built along Firth Stirling Avenue and South Capitol Street in Anacostia that was to be the first segment of a larger city wide streetcar network. That segment was not full built out between the Anacostia Metrorail station and Malcolm X Avenue. The rolling stock operated on H Street Benning Road streetcar line was procured before construction any track was begun, and was planned to be operated on the Anacostia line. The Streetcars were stored in the Czech Republic where they were manufacture a couple of years as the District of Columbia had no facilities to store them at, they eventually were shipped from the Czech Republic and were stored at WMATA Greenbelt yard. A service building was built on the Anacostia line under a later contract and the cars were moved there from WMATA Greenbelt yard. When the track were laid along H Street Benning Road no plans had been made for operating on those tracks. Later contracts were awarded for the construction of streetcar stop behind Union Station and the car barn at 26th Street and Benning Road. Plans were in the works to extend the line east to the Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road Metrorail station prior to 2020. Plans at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road for branch to the Minnesota Avenue Metrorail station had issues. Plans to extend the line west along K Street to Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown ware never fully completed. Funding for the extension to the east end up killing it. along with the build out of full network. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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