There’s still no exact date, but leaders have been making moves toward finally opening the streetcar to the public. They (again) began the final testing phase in December and this week the D.C. Fire and EMS Department gave its long-delayed approval, which means that it could open any time on or after February 26. But after more than year of watching it glide up and down the corridor, will anyone know how to ride it? With a new video that features a lot of running, DDOT has some advice on how to learn.

• Pick up a glossy but fictional newspaper called The DC Daily (fictional headline: Streetcars Return to DC). Then ignore it.
• Find a streetcar super fan who definitely isn’t nuts on a singles dating site. Pretend like you’ve both been pretend riding the rails ALL THE TIME.
• Conjure up an adult friend who wears her hair in a high side pony and who knows magic along with how to ride the streetcar.
• Inexplicably decide that this is just like being in an inspirational boxing movie and train accordingly. Start on a playground that is definitely for adults.
• Memorize all eight stops.
• Try not to get hit by the thing. Also, try not to lose your hearing when your ponytailed friend blows a whistle in your ear.
• Continue running. Try to get faster than the streetcar so you never actually have to ride it.
• Seriously, try not to get hit by the thing.
• Give up. Running is hard. So is reading a map upside down.
• Try not to get so exhausted from all that running that you need to take a nap.
• Oh, but this thing is free (for now). Resume training.
• Finally stop putting your bike in dumb places, and maybe choose to cycle on G or I streets instead of H.
• Become Rocky a streetcar riding champ.
• Impress your date with those new found public transportation riding skills and four red roses.