Washington, D.C.’s streetcar will end service in 2026, one year earlier than originally planned, reports Rachel Weiner in the Washington Post.
The D.C. Council cut the streetcar’s regular funding from its budget, forcing it to stop running next March. “The faster-than-expected wind down mirrors the fate of the D.C. Circulator bus service, which ran its last routes on Dec. 31. Both were dreamed up in the early 2000s, when D.C. leaders were looking to spur tourism and development by taking people to places the Metro system didn’t reach.”…