The incident began around 4:30 p.m. yesterday near Benning Road NE.

During the week of the 19th.

But it will start during the week of January 19, 2015.

Passenger service is expected to begin before the year ends.

A Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson said the pitbull was involved in a “violent skirmish” with a poodle. Another MPD representative said police were dispatched to the scene at around 10:05 a.m. At some point, officers shot the pitbull.

The first Overhead Catenary System (OCS) pole went up on Wednesday. “Work will continue to go up through the month of September and should be done by October,” Dara Ward, a spokeswoman for DDOT and the D.C. Streetcar, said.

In late March construction will begin on connecting the existing streetcar tracks on H Street NE to turnarounds and termini.

Five people were wounded when gunfire broke out early Saturday morning at a nightclub in the Carver-Langston section of Northeast D.C.