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Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 00:22:01 2025 DC News Now
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Nov 1 01:29:22 2025, in response to Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 00:22:01 2025. Nowhere to nowhere w/few trip generators. a completely separate repair shop for a tiny fleet. What could possibly go wrong? |
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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 06:53:12 2025, in response to Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 00:22:01 2025. DC News NowOld news. Original plans announced in May of 2024 had it being shutting down in the summer of 2027 to be replaced by trolley buses in by late 2028 or mid 2029. Ironic that it will be shut down less then a week after the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first segment of Metrorail. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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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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Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service |
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Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sat Nov 1 12:59:38 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. I will be sorry to see the trolley go. But I have to agree with you. It went from nowhere to nowhere. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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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 Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 13:32:31 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Sand Box John on Sat Nov 1 06:53:12 2025. Well, there you go. DDOT hates rail-based transit. |
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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 Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 13:34:03 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. What, excuses for government? Hope not.Lots of other streetcars are not "nowhere to nowhere" and yet got canceled. Thanks to the governmental philosophy you seem to favor. |
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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 Jackson Park B Train on Sat Nov 1 14:32:05 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sat Nov 1 12:59:38 2025. Too bad. DC born and raised, I would have loved to see a serious return of streetcars. |
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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 Jackson Park B Train on Sat Nov 1 14:45:24 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 13:34:03 2025. The issue of lame elected/bribed? officials is not soluble by privatisation of public services whether trash collection, potable water or transit. A reading of THe Octopus would be useful for a perspective on RR behavior when they "owned" the state government. |
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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 Joe on Sat Nov 1 16:52:19 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sat Nov 1 12:59:38 2025. In February of 1948, our family went to Washington. Lincoln's birthday was on Thursday. In darkness that Friday, Dad brought me on route 10, Benning Road to Kenilworth. At the terminal, the PCC backed into an alley to reverse. We did not explore Route 12, Seat Pleasant. We met Mom and sister downtown and returned to Burlington Hotel near Thomas Circle. I am uncertain where the west terminals of 10 and 12 were, maybe Roslyn or Potomac Park. Dad had purchased two weekly passes, price, I think, 50 cents. We rode most of the lines, except the 60. |
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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 Jackson Park B Train on Sat Nov 1 17:26:44 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Joe on Sat Nov 1 16:52:19 2025. The 10 series were the New York Ave lines in downtown. In ancient times Wash, Balto, & Annapolis interurbans came in to 11th & NY Ave NW. |
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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 17:26:53 2025, in response to Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 13:32:31 2025. Well, there you go. DDOT hates rail-based transit.I would not go as far as saying that. More like the people up and down both the bureaucratic and political food chain could not figure out what they wanted resulting its costs going out of control. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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[PHOTOS] Re: Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Nov 1 19:05:25 2025, in response to Washington DC to kill DC Streetcar service (H Street) after a mere decade of service, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 1 00:22:01 2025.    
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