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The DC Streetcar is a surface streetcar network in Washington, D.C. that consists of a single line running 2.2 miles (3.5 km) in mixed traffic along H Street and Benning Road in the city's Northeast quadrant. The streetcars are the first to run in the District of Columbia since the dismantling of the previous streetcar system in 1962.
The H Street/Benning Road Line is a currently operating line of DC Streetcar.It has eight stations and began operation on February 27, 2016. The 2.4-mile (3.9 km) line runs along H Street NE and Benning Road NE in Washington, D.C. [1] In September 2016 service was increased from six days a week to seven, and with shorter 12-minute headways.
The last streetcar company to begin operation during the horsecar era was the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway. It was incorporated on March 3, 1875, and began operation later that year. It ran on a circular route around downtown D.C. A track on P Street NW was added in 1876.
The first one was the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway, chartered on August 22, 1888, and just the third D.C. streetcar company to incorporate. [2] It began operations in 1890 on a route that ran up from M Street NW up 32nd Street NW [3] and then onto the Georgetown and Rockville Road (now Wisconsin Avenue NW) to the extant village of ...
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
The East Washington Heights Traction Company's streetcars, which ran from Barney Circle to Randle Highlands via the Sousa Bridge, were replaced by buses on December 1, 1923, originally numbered Route C2 in 1936, before eventually being renamed as routes, "32 & 34". The 32 streetcar line operated between Shipley Terrace & Friendship Heights ...
Many current routes operate under former streetcar routes. The streetcars provided the main transportation in the Washington, D.C. area from the 1800s to the 1960s. [3] DC Transit would also operate on the former streetcar routes when the Streetcars ended service.
The Expressway between Benning Road and the District Line was built on the right of way of the former Benning streetcar line, which is why parts of it are narrow with short entrances and exits. Until May 1, 1949, streetcar routes 10 and 12 operated from downtown to Deane Avenue. Route 10 continued to Kenilworth, just inside the District Line.