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The District Department of Transportation is bringing its show on the road in the coming month in an effort to do public outreach in all eight wards on the biggest projects in its pipeline, including those streetcars you've been hearing so much about. You may have seen different versions of this list of upcoming public meetings, but below is the revised, and most up-to-date, calendar now available.
The Washington Business Journal earlier this week got the city's transit nerds all hot and bothered by publishing quotes from Ward 6's Tommy Wells announcing that the H Street NE streetcar line could end up happening before the Anacostia line. Wells said he plans to make it happen by introducing legislation later this year that would overturn the ban on overheard wires inside the L’Enfant city.
With this recent development, these meetings are sure to be well attended, so mark your calendars. All of these DDOT open houses will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m. Full schedule after the jump.
Ward 6: Thursday, October 22, 2009
J.O. Wilson Elementary, 660 K Street NE
Ward 1: Monday, October 26, 2009
Columbia Heights Education Campus, 3101 16th Street NW
Ward 4: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Brightwood Elementary, 1300 Nicholson Street NW
Ward 2: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Hyde Elementary, 3219 O Street NW
Ward 7: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thomas Elementary, 650 Anacostia Avenue NE
Ward 8: Monday, November 2, 2009
Savoy Elementary, 2400 Shannon Place SE
Ward 5: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Luke Moore Academy, 1001 Monroe Street NE
Ward 3: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Stoddert Elementary, 4001 Calvert Street NW
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So they still can't do overhead power downtown, and the underground power lines will be toast once they get buried in road salt. I predict DDOT will use a hybrid system that combines the worst aspects of both systems, along with the much-expected ability to telescope during a catastrophic crash. This latter will be solved by moving the trains to Reston.
Could they redirect the bag-tax revenue to the streetcars? If they did that, I might stop buying everything online to avoid paying taxes to DC.
I can't see the bag tax raising that much. Better use is to keep to cleaning up the Anacostia.
can't wait to see how the feds respond to the overhead wire thing. clearly mister-muddy-your-hands-in-local-issues-senator from flyover country knows just want to say with regards to local gay marriage laws in order to please the rubes back home, but what happens when the issue is something that the rubes don't care about, or even have a chance to understand?
I think we should go for broke here:
1. Streetcars have guns mounted on them.
2. Streetcars are gay, and they can marry each other.
3. Streetcars have voting rights.
4. Streetcars have representation in Congress.
5. Streetcars have live music from Supergroups.
6. Streetcars have doors that open on both sides and no recorded "Doors Closing" message.
7. Streetcars have built-in cell phone jammers.
8. Streetcar seats dump people on the floor who try to hog a whole seat.
9. Streetcar conductors don't have an attitude, nor do they sleep on the job.
10. Streetcars have trays of free cupcakes.
11. Streetcars have an official photographer; yospyn
12. Streetcars have reserved seating for Real World D.C. cast members.
13. Streetcars don't have a stop at Nationals Park.
14. Streetcars have exclusive rights for all future Overheard in D.C.: posts.
15. Streetcars have no place in monkeyrotica's pants.
I respectfully disagree. My pants embrace all forms of transit--from light rail and pedicabs to monkey-navigated jetpacks and barbary apes with Yoda harnesses on back. Whatever it takes to put a "zero footprint" on the "dense development" and the "gridlocked congestion" IN MY PANTS.
OK, scratch number 15.
Will the streetcars have meters or will they use a Zone system for fares? :)