The Washington Post reports that D.C. councilman (and four-time mayor) Marion Barry has “launched a last ditch effort to slow or derail the city’s planned streetcar line on H Street, arguing it’s not been well-thought out and is too expensive for the number of riders it will serve.”

The H Street streetcar, which will serve a rapidly gentrifying area of the nation’s capital, will cost $200 million to build and require an annual $8 million subsidy – yet it will serve fewer than 2,000 riders each day, according to the D.C. District Department of Transportation. It’s the first line in a planned $1.5 billion, 37-mile streetcar network – this, despite the fact that D.C. already has extensive Metro and bus services.