DC Streetcars Arrive in US

[Vintage Soul]

WASHINGTON - Three streetcars for Washington, a city that has not had that mode of transportation since 1962, have arrived in the area.

Transportation officials say the three streetcars arrived over the weekend at the Port of Baltimore from the Czech Republic. They still must clear customs, then they will be sent for inspection at the Greenbelt Rail Yard. They cost about $10 million.

Two streetcar lines are under construction. Anacostia and the Benning Road/H Street Corridor will be the first two sections to see the new transportation network. Those lines are scheduled to open around 2012.

From WTOP (ABC) in Washington, D.C.

[bus guy]

Nice design!

I beleive they will be pay as you enter?

[bus guy]

These streetcars design looks nice and sleek. The colors, consisting of Red and Silver with Amber wave stripes looks similar to the WMATA's MetroBus. There is some uniform coloring going on for the new fleets.

@Bus Guy:
I feel the fare system is most likely like New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. Buy a ticket and then board the StreetCar.

Looking at the Capitol...

Isn't that the same system on the River Line?.....it fails.

[Kamen Rider]

These streetcars design looks nice and sleek. The colors, consisting of Red and Silver with Amber wave stripes looks similar to the WMATA's MetroBus. There is some uniform coloring going on for the new fleets.

@Bus Guy:
I feel the fare system is most likely like New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. Buy a ticket and then board the StreetCar.

Looking at the Capitol...

that's not a WMATA paint job, it's Circulator's. I rode on the same kind of cars in Seattle, and they are equiped for onboard fare payment

WMATA-http://media.photobucket.com/image/wmata%20metrobus/Nabi9833/WMATA/RTA3798.jpg

Circulator-http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/files/2007/09/dc_circulator.jpg (operated by First Group subsidary First Transit)

[Pablo M 201]

The DC Circulator is operated by both WMATA and DC Surface Transit, Inc.