DC streetcar planning

Having been away for awhile I am just getting caught up, and that includes reading back postings from various blogs including Greater Greater Washington. In the entry, "DDOT unveils vision for eight streetcar lines," they report on updated streetcar planning for DC, including this map from the DDOT website. The Rhode Island line wasn't proposed in the DC Alternatives Analysis, but was one that I communicated to Dan Tangherlini and others in DDOT during the planning process, I guess in 2003-2004. I am surprised to see that a piece of this suggestion made it into the plan.

Still, at the same time I suggested that the Rhode Island line could go deep into Prince George's, and that the Crosstown line, instead of terminating at Brookland, could go up Michigan Avenue, Queens Chapel Road, and Adelphi Road to the University of Maryland. See this blog entry, "Will streetcars really return to the Capital City" for a discussion of the "University Line" proposal, and this one, "A different opinion on BRT," for a mention of the Rhode Island proposal.

One can hope.

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