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Yesterday afternoon, the District Department of Transportation released an updated version of its streetcar plan [PDF], the most detailed document to date about the plans of where D.C.’s streetcars will go and how the city is planning to pay for them. The plan also documents logistical alternatives for the routing of the streetcar line, options for maintenance facilities, discussion of the streetcars’ power supply, the vehicles which will run on the tracks and provides a general status update for both the H Street/Benning Road and Anacostia projects.

The new plan is the result of Council legislation, fostered through by Council Chairman Vincent Gray — no stranger to the details of paying for the streetcars — in July, which states that DDOT needed to develop a “comprehensive plan for financing, operations and capital facilities of the streetcar project” along H Street if it was to be included in the city’s budget.

According to the updated plan, the two lines currently under construction will cost $194 million to build, and will create approximately 200 jobs when completed. Digging a little further into the future work, $73.4 million in funding for the Benning Road extension has been requested through the city’s annual appropriation from the federal government. But news this morning that the U.S. Department of Transportation had not selected the streetcar project for a slice of $600 million in TIGER II funding is a bit of a letdown — DDOT had applied for $18 million in funding for the Anacostia extension across the 11th Street Bridge under that competitive grant program.