BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Talk about a monumental waste of money.......

Just learned that the "streetcars" (LRVs) that operate along the "H" Street corrdor will be abandoned, after only a decade in service.

The sheer stupidity of building a hi-tech light rail corridor, cost $$$$$$$$$$ for only a TEN YEAR tenure is light-years beyond insanity; it was an ill-planned farce from the start...........

"NYO"

*(Last day of service will be March 31st, 2026)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Streetcar

["UNION STATION"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here are two photos of the current DC "streetcars" (these "streetcars" look more like giant South American "railroad worms", snared in duct tape!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157483

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157478

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["H STREET"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here's an article on the closure........

https://www.popville.com/2025/10/ddot-dc-streetcar-ending-date/

["A STREETCAR NAMED UNDESIRABLE"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

And to think that the REAL streetcars in Washington DC were in service from the 1890s until 1962.........talk about "progress" (or lack, thereof).....

"NYO"

["CAPITAL TRACTION"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

January, 1962, was the first time DC's streetcars bit the dust.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21229

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21230

(courtesy: nyvsubway.org)

["82 RIVERDALE"]

[Cyberider]

Interesting! This could very well be the fate of the "Tempe Streetcar" when the authorities decide they can't afford a wasteful expense any longer. The "streetcars" even look similar.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[Cyberider]

The Tempe Streetcar goes nowhere as well yet the City and Valley Metro continue to proclaim what a success it is and want to expand it. Fares were free for the first three years and they finally started collecting them, supposedly. If it's such a success, maybe they'll want to purchase the DC cars and paint them green to match the Tempe fleet. It's all such a waste. A private company depending on farebox revenue would never build such a thing. A few small buses would provide better service at a fraction of the cost.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Cyberider:

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Metro_Streetcar

["S"]

[Cyberider]

That's it. Is this what a streetcar should look like?

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

The TRUE definition of "LRV":

"LOATHSOME RAIL VEHICLE" (and I'm trying to be KIND, here!)

"NYO"

["An 'LRV' is NOT a 'TROLLEY', NOR is it a 'STREETCAR'.....PERIOD!!"

[Cyberider]

And neither are the new so-called "streetcars"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]