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[CNJRoss]

DCist, 1/5/16:
 

NextBus Taunts Users With D.C. Streetcar Times

 

Screenshot courtesy of NextBus.

 

If you use the NextBus app to find out when to catch public transportation, you may have noticed a new option. That's right—you can see when the next long-awaited D.C. Streetcar is coming.

 

That's not to say you can ride it, though. The $200 million project is still in its pre-revenue operations mode, which means that it "simulates service along the corridor without passengers," according to the District Department of Transportation.

 

As it turns out, the inclusion of D.C. Streetcar times on the app is part of the testing phase.

 

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[CNJRoss]

The Washington Post, 1/6:
 

Dr. Gridlock

What do the D.C. streetcar and ‘The Simpsons’ monorail have in common?

 

Video:  The DC Streetcar Song

 

A new song likens D.C.’s beleaguered streetcar to a cartoon boondoggle of TV legend: The Simpsons’ Springfield Monorail.

 

It comes courtesy of Express writer Sadie Dingfelder, composer of the “Silver Line” song and other must-watch transit videos, like this guy in a hospital gown doing push-ups on a Metro platform.

 

The song flawlessly parallels the streetcar — whose anticipated opening is in a persistent state of flux — and the Springfield Monorail, an ambitious public works project that ends up being a faulty, $2 million drain on the fictional town.

 

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[CNJRoss]

WAMU Radio, American University, Washington, DC 1/5:
 

D.C. Targets Late February For Streetcar Grand Opening

 

You might be able to take your first streetcar ride in Washington in late February — or sooner.

 

Project leaders at the District Department of Transportation are targeting Feb. 20 to begin passenger service on the long-delayed, 2.2-mile streetcar line in Northeast D.C. along the H Street and Benning Road commercial district, according to documents obtained by WAMU 88.5 through a Freedom of Information Act request. It would be the first streetcar service in the capital city since 1962.

 

It is possible the final regulatory approvals will wrap up sooner than first scheduled, and the streetcar line would open before Feb. 20, according to DDOT Director Leif Dormsjo.

 

Continue here w/audio report.

[Sloan]

 

 

DC Streetcar Will Open as Soon as February 26, Officials Say

Really?

http://www.washingto...-officials-say/

[KevinKorell]

February of what year?????

[Sloan]

 

 

Inside the Company Building DC's Streetcars

 

Meet Oregon Iron Works

http://dcinno.street...nd-dcs-trolley/