Ride the Rhode Island Ave Streetcar from DC to College Park
Film from 1950s puts you in the driver's seat of old streetcar line which serviced College Park. Now see the plan which would return streetcars to Rhode Island Avenue in the next 10 years.
Ever wonder what it was like to ride the old streetcar system which helped establish Mount Rainier, Hyattsville, College Park and other Rhode Island and Baltimore avenue communities in Prince George's County? Well, wonder no more. Yesterday, the folks over at our local metro-area urban policy blog Greater Greater Washington picked up on a 14-minute video recently uploaded to YouTube which follows the old DC Transit streetcar line 82 from 5th and G streets NW (near the Verizon Center today) north to what is today the Branchville neighborhood of College Park. For reference, the old DC streetcar system was shut down in the early 1960s after more than 70 years of electric streetcar history in the district. The video we are watching was shot in…
Lourene Miovski
11:36 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
In the context of the Route 1 Sector Plan and the County Master Plan of Transportation, I and others spent a lot of energy and time (a couple years) attempting to convince the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) to consider incorporating into the County's long-term plans an extension the planned trolley line from the Washington, D.C., border northward along Route 1 up … more ›