Frustrations Mount With New Doubts About D.C.'s Streetcar Launch

[font size="1"]The H Street streetcar making a test run (Martin Austermuhle/WAMU)[/font]


Life along H Street Northeast has taken on a strange repetitiveness for restaurant owner Howard Frampton.

Every 10 minutes or so of every day of every week, a gleaming red and gray streetcar slides past his Jamaican eatery at the corner of H and 6th Streets, its electric whir distinct amid the urban din. It comes to a stop at a newly built platform at the end of the block, rings its bell, waits for the light to change, then continues on.

There is only one thing missing: passengers.

“Hopefully it will start soon, but when? When? When? Everybody keeps asking when. They are doing test runs every five seconds, but when?” an exasperated Frampton asked. ...................(more)

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