D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed Monday that she will soon decide whether to salvage the long-delayed streetcar project or kill it due to safety, costs and other concerns. News 4’s Tom Sherwood reports.
For more than eight years, D.C.’s been developing a costly streetcar system that now may be abandoned before the first passenger rides it.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will decide soon whether the long-delayed project can be saved.
New D.C. Department of Transportation Director Leif Dormsjo suggested Friday the whole system could be canceled for safety and other reasons. The streetcar is years behind schedule, with more than $200 million spent on the first H Street line alone, and it still can't pass safety rules for streetcars, power lines, and street tracks and adjacent traffic.
Bowser and Dormsjo said they would await a third party transit review before Bowser crafts her 2016 budget by mid-April.
