D.C. streetcar is back, and other highlights from Mayor Bowser's first State of the District address

D.C.’s streetcar roller-coaster is on the upswing, again.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, in her first State of the District address, pledged Tuesday not only to get the initial 2.2-mile line along Benning Road and H Street NE finally up and running, but to extend the line to “downtown Ward 7” east of the Anacostia and then to the Potomac River, to connect underserved D.C. residents with Union Station and Georgetown.

“We all know that the streetcar has been long on promises but short on results,” Bowser said…