I attended the Streetcar Open House and Mayor Fenty's press conference. It was a great event and Councilmembers Graham and Evans, as well as Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR) attended and also spoke. The streetcars are beautiful vehicles and will be a significant improvement over the WMATA and Circulator buses.
Someone from DDOT mentioned the new DC Transit Future System Plan, which was just published on their website. The 2005 Transit Alternatives Analysis has been very helpful in making the case for a Wisconsin Avenue streetcar. I will review this report and summarize my comments this week. Here is the link:
http://ddot.dc.gov/DC/DDOT/About+DDO...Transit+Future.
I also spoke briefly with Gabe Klein, Director of DDOT, and told him this is a great 37-mile system but it would be an even better 42-mile network with connections to Tenley and Friendship Heights.
I will post photos from today's event on the Wisconsin Avenue Streetcar Coalition's Facebook page (
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...2402429&ref=ts ) and this forum later this evening.