Streetcars
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Where Washington, D.C.'s car-free households are concentrated
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See the eight wards of the District ranked by the number of people who live without a personal automobile. But how necessary will cars be moving forward as D.C. juggles bikes and buses, streetcars and the Metro?
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Signs now warn bicyclists to be careful near H Street streetcar tracks
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Bicyclists and streetcar tracks don't generally get along. But new signs, at least, caution those on bikes to watch out if they're heading along the risky stretch of our city's first new streetcar tracks.
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Unfortunate calculations of streetcar math
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The District has finally ordered the remaining two streetcars for H Street, but don't get your hopes up for seeing the line begin before fall of 2013.
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Doubts emerge about D.C.'s ability to execute transportation projects
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How can D.C. make 75% of trips car-free in 20 years when our current transportation department struggles to finalize contracts and transfer money?
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The District isn't quite sure how to balance streetcars and bikes
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Will D.C.'s bicyclists be able to safely navigate around the 37 miles of streetcar track the capital hopes to install? Other cities have struggled — in Portland, 7 out of 10 bicyclists have crashed along that city's tracks.
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D.C. races to secure enough streetcars for mid-2013 launch
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An Oregon-based company will make the next two streetcars for H street ... but will they be here in time for the first line's launch? Will the first line even still launch in mid-2013? Many questions remain.
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Bicycles versus streetcar tracks?
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The grooves of streetcar tracks are wide enough to "eat your tire" when riding a bike and can send bicyclists crashing. How will D.C. manage this problem when spreading its streetcar tracks across 37 miles of District land?
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Half a million for a D.C. streetcar study? Sounds about right
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Quality transportation planning is expensive, and everyone, from WMATA to the Office of Planning, spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to craft their reports.
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D.C.'s streetcar debut may be 'a symbol of failure'
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Officials aren't sure whether the H Street line will have enough trolleys by the system's mid-2013 launch, threatening yet another delay.
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O and P Streets Project hopes to preserve crumbling infrastructure, streetcar tracks
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Last week marked the first completed block, 34th Street, of the District Department of Transportation's O and P Street Rehabilitation Project, which focuses on seven streets in Georgetown.
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The business implications of creating a 37-mile D.C. streetcar system
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Will mom and pop stores survive as our expensive property becomes even more expensive with the promise of new transit? The District needs to preserve affordable housing but investors are studying our streetcar plans with money in their eyes.
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D.C. streetcar may be a victory for the city's pedestrians
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The government notes that "streetcar service would increase pedestrian activity within the streetcar corridors." In turn that would have the potential to trigger more business activity and make people feel safer.
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Inside North Korea's colorful, strange Pyongyang Metro and traffic, Part 2
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The country may offer a Metro but hundreds of thousands of people also walk, bus, streetcar, and even drive through the capital city. Sounds norml enough, right? At first ... until you realize the city lacks traffic lights.
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Here comes that D.C. streetcar mania
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Last night the mayor and District Department of Transportation came together to assure residents of H Street that yes, a streetcar is coming in a year and a half — and the meetings have only begun.
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Transit Tuesdays: Dupont Underground brings streetcar tunnels to life
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Washington, D.C. ended its great streetcar experiment in the 1960s, but as our capital city looks to revive streetcars, another group will attempt to revive a classic streetcar tunnel that existed under Dupont Circle. Read about Dupont Underground, higher toll prices, and more in our weekly transit and urbanism news roundup.
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Metro history: Remembering D.C.'s rogue streetcar driver of 1957
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More than half a century ago, a D.C. laborer absconded with a trolley and raced 15 blocks down Pennsylvania. By the end of its voyage, the streetcar managed to strike five cars and only stopped after the streetcar veered off its tracks.
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Why the 11th Street Bridge won't have streetcar tracks
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Who is responsible for the reality that the 11th Street Bridge will no longer incorporate streetcar tracks? The $300 million project to build the bridge across the Anacostia now, we've learned, won't include tracks but simply leave room for them to be added at some future date.
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Transit everywhere at H Street Festival 2011
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What really characterized the street celebration was the omnipresence of transportation — the reality that H Street had undergone recent, dynamic streetscaping; the various art cars that lined the avenue; the streetcar tracks that thousands of feet stepped across; and of course the booths of Capital Bikeshare, D.C. bike shop The Daily Rider, and other transit enthusiasts
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