by RayT
I just remembered that starting with Mayor Marion Barry that the plan was to use a old CSX branch line. They spent like 40 million dollers on this project which included buying a Czech Deisel Streetcar which sat in a city barn and is now in parts unknown. Grade crossings where redone but after a while the city repurposed the money to be used on other projects which a good portion came from the Federal Transit Adminstration.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacostia_Line after reading the Wikipedia Article on this this was a boondogle public works disaster from start to finsih with cuts and kickbacks and politics. Yes I favor public rail transit but this was a uneeded project that was a gift of to a corrupt political machine.