DC Streetcar service to end in 2026, a year earlier than originally planned

[marmar]

If you’ve come to depend on the D.C. Streetcar to get around the H Street corridor, you might not be able to for much longer. The District Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that the service is ending on March 31, 2026.

The closure comes a year earlier than initially planned, for March 2027, after the D.C. Council cut funding for the line in its fiscal year 2026 budget.

In a statement, DDOT officials said the decision comes after years of low ridership. They also cited the system’s operational challenges because it ran in mixed traffic, and it also racked up higher costs to maintain and extend the system.

The D.C. Streetcar was launched in 2016 as a single line that runs 2.2 miles between Union Station and the edge of the RFK Stadium Campus. .................(more)

https://wtop.com/dc/2025/10/dc-streetcar-service-to-end-in-2026-a-year-earlier-than-originally-planned/

[31st Street Bridge]

1. When it comes to transportation ...

can this blockheaded country do anything right???

[RainCaster]

2. Not under the GOP 💩

Everything they touch turns to shit.

[IbogaProject]

3. Projects like that need ten to twenty years for the community to adopt

But track based mixed with traffic should only occur on legacy tracks. Philly has Trollys which are left from over 100 years ago. Tasker Street in South Philly has been basically bus trollys with rubber wheels powered by overhead electric, that was 30 years ago when I was there. Most of their system is on legacy track.