A report from Mayor Vincent Gray’s transition team slams the city’s transportation department, saying it “skirted accountability” and even violated local laws with how it funded major projects. The report, released by the mayor’s office this week, is intended to give Gray a blueprint on how to improve the city. But in doing so, it takes a swipe at the outgoing leadership under former Mayor Adrian Fenty and his predecessor, Mayor Anthony Williams, saying they left behind incomplete and underfunded projects for the Gray administration to clean up. It also accuses the District Department of Transportation of using the subsidy the city pays to Metro for the city’s own benefit, such as the D.C. Circulator.

Fenty’s ambitious streetcar program especially comes under attack. Trolley tracks were installed on H Street, it said, even though the city doesn’t have any provision for how to power the streetcars, doesn’t have a place to store or maintain the trolleys or have a spot for them to turn around. By moving ahead without studying the environmental impact, the report says, the city has lost out on federal funding.