The H Street streetcar in Washington, D.C., may be about to get three and a half miles longer.
District officials have announced plans to extend the line from its current end point at Union Station to Georgetown via K Street and the Whitehurst Freeway.
“We’re really trying to figure out how we can really rethink K Street so that it can be a street that really is highly functional, but also a street that we’re really proud of. I mean, K Street is Main Street,” the District Department of Transportation project manager Jamie Henson said at a Tuesday night town hall meeting.
The two-mile-long streetcar began running in February following a five-year construction process. It originates at Benning Road, two miles east of Washington’s transportation hub and is free to ride.
The hypothetical extension would not be completed until 2026. It would either utilize K Street’s vehicle lanes for part of its path or use the middle lane of the road exclusively for the street car.
The next meeting is set to take place in October.
