, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — The D.C. Department of Transportation has , crisscrossing the city. On Thursday, the agency took another step toward that goal by ordering two brand new streetcars.
The streetcars, being produced in Oregon for about $9 million, will join the city’s other three streetcars. The plan is to have all five running along the tracks of H Street in Northeast by the end of next year.
In the last three years, dozens of new businesses have been attracted to the ever-changing , and city leaders say the streetcar is the main reason.
“The potential and the promise of the trolley was the No. 1 one reason that people talked about coming to H Street,” Anwar Saleem, a representative for the H Street Corridor told the D.C. Council.
“We are really able to sell H Street from the potentials of the trolley.”
The 2.2-mile-long H Street/Benning Road Line is planned to run from Union Station to Oklahoma Avenue. It will be the first segment of a planned eight-line, 37-mile streetcar network serving all eight wards of the District.
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