Another in a long line of disgraceful DC political leadership.
Posted on 06/04/2025 12:58:54 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The streetcar left much to be desired. The Democrat-run city of Washington, D.C., is derailing its $200 million boondoggle streetcar system only 10 years after the streetcars began to operate. Oh well, $200 million of our hard-earned taxpayer funds down the drain — on to the next expensive wasteful project!
The costly D.C. streetcar system, only 2.2 miles long, is going into the trash heap 15 years after the track was first laid and only a decade into operations. The streetcars were justified originally as being more “environmentally friendly” — Dems love to shove in the climate hoax everywhere — and more accessible. They were also meant to be more “aesthetically pleasing.” Instead, the streetcar system was a cash-draining catastrophe and will soon be replaced again with buses.
D.C. mayor and professional incompetent Muriel Bowser desperately tried to obscure the failure of the streetcar line by asserting that the electric bus replacement is a “next generation streetcar,” National Pulse noted.
Expect more disasters — electric vehicles are expensive, inefficient, and the batteries die faster and are very toxic to manufacture and dispose of. Not to mention our already strained grid can’t really handle increases in electric vehicles. If D.C. is bent on electric buses, the city transit system is only continuing to careen toward crisis.
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Another in a long line of disgraceful DC political leadership.
And they are losing their minds over tanks for the parade.
I’ve been to DC numerous times. I can’t remember ever seeing a streetcar.
Probably as much as Boston or some other cold winter city wasted on electric school buses.
A Streetcar Named Nomodesired”
smooth brained
That’s because being the local DC government is a tankless job
All the kickbacks have been pocketed. Time for a new boondoggle.
Monorail!
The largest ETB network in North America is in San Francisco, with Vancouver (BC) and Seattle just behind. ETB networks still exist in Hamilton (Ontario), Dayton and Philadelphia. Boston got rid of its ETBs a year or so ago.
I don’t even know what a streetcar is.
Put one of these in Atlanta as well. Not sure of the cost, but it was a big boondoggle.
It’s a totally side point, but many years ago I visited a streetcar museum in southwestern Pennsylvania. And I took a ride on one of their old streetcars. It ran a small loop on their property.
And by golly, it was the streetcar named Desire. Yes, that one. The original.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Trolley_Museum
Bet this was a place to raid the pantry, for dems that is.
I’d love this to be investigated, too.
Keep in mind that an ETB draws its current from dual overhead wires, not batteries.
I’d actually be for riding an ETB at least once for historical purposes, particularly if it wasn’t battery powered but had power lines over the track like the old ones did.
Around here in OK city a streetcar is an impediment to other vehicle and foot traffic with no riders.
2.2 miles long if it had been completed....the Disney parks monorails are bigger systems than that. Disneyland 2.33 miles long. Walt Disney World 14.7 miles.
Hah! Clever writing is NOT dead! Huzzah!
Yep. Once Marion Barry left it has been all downhill.
Take a trip to San Francisco or Seattle, and you’ll see ETBs at hard work. The reason these two cities opted for ETBs was the steep hills both cities possess. Those hills can reduce the transmission of a diesel bus to scrap metal in 18 months. By contrast, the ETBs are as nimble as mountain goats on those slopes.
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