C100 Testimony DC Council DDOT Oversight Streetcar-Commuter Rail

Monte Edwards


C100 recommendations concerning three items:  1. The need for an appropriation to prepare a comprehensive freight, passenger and commuter Rail Plan for the District of Columbia.  2. The need to restrict DDOT’s expenditure of any further money for engineering and
design of streetcar extensions beyond the H Street/Benning Road line until the requirements of DC Code§ 9-1171 and 9-1173 have been satisfied.  3. The need to provide a streetcar propulsion technology assessment as required by DC Code §9-1174.