Via DDOT.

An entire block of H Street NE will be shut down in both directions for several hours Sunday for a streetcar emergency drill.

The closure will take place from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of H Street so the D.C. Department of Transportation can “test operational coordination and preparedness of DC Streetcar and first responder personnel in the event of an incident involving a streetcar.”

The exercise will simulate a streetcar derailment caused by a collision between a DC Streetcar vehicle with passengers and an automobile on H Street NE. DC Streetcar personnel along with Metropolitan Police Department and DC Fire and EMS will coordinate and practice their evacuation and emergency protocols for dealing with such an incident.

Residents and visitors of H Street and Benning Road NE have seen streetcars in motion as operator training is conducted.