Posts tagged Streetcars
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DC Council Chairman Mendelson’s budget slashes the streetcar to Benning Road
Residents of DC's Ward 7, who have long awaited new investment in their community and support extending the H Street streetcar line to Benning Road, will have to wait six years or forever if the budget released last night by Chairman Phil Mendelson passes. That budget cuts about $97 million from transportation capital projects. Keep reading…
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Eight lessons about great (and not-so-great) transit I learned in Toronto
Toronto may be North America's most fascinating transit city. Here are eight things I learned while visiting, both positive and negative. Keep reading…
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In transit rock-paper-scissors match, Megabus beats DC Streetcar
Wednesday early afternoon, a Megabus headed eastbound on H Street NE collided with the 3rd and H Street stop of the DC Streetcar. Emergency vehicles were on the scene and as of 1:15pm, the Megabus had been towed away but the 300 block of H Street remained closed. Keep reading…
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Money for new Hopscotch Bridge will trigger big expansions of Union Station & DC Streetcar
Mayor Bowser's latest DC budget proposal includes $165 million to replace the Hopscotch Bridge. Once a new bridge is open, an eyesore will become a prime public space, and long-awaited expansions of Union Station and DC Streetcar can finally happen. Keep reading…
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Washington links: Chinatown wants the streetcar now
Business owners in Chinatown say they're tired of the council promising a streetcar but not following through, Georgetown is making room for new housing for homeless families, and Mount Rainier is about to get more reliable cell phone service. Read the latest breaking stories from around Washington. Keep reading…
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It’s part streetcar, part bus, and it ran in Arlington and Fairfax in the 1930s
The Rosslyn-Ballston corridor is a famous example of early transit-oriented development because of the Orange Line, but the area was home to an innovative transit experiment long before Metro. From 1936 through 1939, a streetcar-bus hybrid provided service from the City of Fairfax to Rosslyn and into DC. Keep reading…
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One year in, DC Streetcar is beating expectations, gaining riders
For a line that had the roughest of openings, DC Streetcar has had a really good year. Keep reading…
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This is what school buses looked like in 1934
If you were an elementary school student the 1930s, this Dodge school bus might have been your ride. Keep reading…
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DC Streetcar ridership is growing, and people are still riding the X2 and X9 buses, too
DC’s two-mile streetcar route overlaps two popular Metrobus lines, the X2 and X9, and when the streetcar started some wondered whether it would poach those lines’ riders. WMATA recently crunched the data, and it turns out overall transit ridership along the H Street/Benning Road corridor is up 15% since February. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Election eve
Not sold on statehood; GOP out of cities; What inner city?; Transit on the ballot; Metro’s need for less speed; More Purple Line jitters; Real estate to the rescue?; Walkable future in Tysons?; Historic preservation discord; And…. Keep reading…