Streetcar rails arrive on Benning Road

Ralph took this picture of Benning Road, where streetcar rails are ready to go into the ground. The streetscape reconstruction will install rails, but no streetcar service will run there until DC resolves the question of what power source to use and designs areas for the streetcars to turn around as well as identifying and constructing a maintenance facility. Currently, federal law prohibits overhead wires, and alternative systems are expensive, unreliable, and/or untested.