D.C. Streetcars Await Track Construction
posted 8:35 am Thu April 24, 2008 - WASHINGTON
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Three streetcars purchased by the District of Columbia for about $10 million are being held in the Czech Republic until the city builds tracks for the cars.
D.C. Department of Transportation (web|news) Director Emeka Moneme say that although the streetcars were purchased three years ago, there is no timetable for when a rail line will be built.
Moneme says he would like to have the streetcars in D.C. this summer. Plans call for the cars to run from Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington to the Anacostia Metro Station.
The streetcars are being maintained by Skoda-Inekon, a company that manufactures streetcars in the Czech Republic.
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