With Trinidadsome nearby residents playing the historic-preservation card to delay or entirely avert the creation of a car barn for the planned streetcar system at Spingarn Senior High School, Mayor Vince Gray today announced the D.C. government’s favorite bureaucratic move to study the future of new transportation system.

Another task force is coming, and this one will deal with the governance and financing of the streetcar system, which is still officially supposed to debut next year along H Street and Benning Road NE, but increasingly looks like it won’t start rolling until 2014.

The task force will deal with the funding of 37-mile streetcar system, scheduling the construction of each segment and the possible creation of an independent agency to manage the streetcar lines.

“I want to make sure we have the best minds inside and outside the government working on the important issues of financing and governance to ensure the system has a firm foundation,” Gray said in a news release.

City Administrator Allen Lew will chair the panel. Among the “best minds” joining Lew will be the developers Jair Lynch and Matthew Klein, District Department of Transportation Director Terry Bellamy, D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi and Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Victor Hoskins.

The proposed car barn at Spingarn isn’t mentioned in Gray’s press release, but we have a feeling that might come up, too.