Please Contact Your Elected Officials and Urge Them to Support Streetcars for D.C.

Streetcars promise a "greener" future for D.C., moving people efficiently across the city with fewer cars and less pollution.

Streetcars in DC need your help -- please contact your elected officials now and urge them to support bringing streetcars back to D.C.'s streets as an environmentally friendly addition to our transit network!
Streetcars offer a number of important benefits:

* Streetcars have demonstrated the ability to promote economic development and neighborhood revitalization along their routes.

* They provide a smooth, comfortable ride and are much quieter than buses.

* Because streetcars run on electricity rather than gasoline, they do not emit air pollution at street level as buses do.

* Streetcars can draw more people out of their cars and onto transit than buses, reducing traffic congeston, noise pollution, and vehicle emissions.

Several years ago, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) unveilled a visionary plan for a 40- to 50-mile streetcar network to better meet D.C.'s transit needs in the future. Unfortunately, since then DDOT has scaled back its plans and is struggling to overcome obstacles on its way to building the first two streetcar lines in Anacostia and in the H Street-Benning Road NE corridor.

We must demonstrate to our elected officials that we want streetcars in D.C. and demand that they make it a high priority. With their help, DDOT can resolve these problems, and we can avoid further delays in completing the first streetcars lines while making progress toward the longer term goal of completing a more comprehensive 40- to 50-mile streetcar network.

Please tell your elected officials in D.C. that you support streetcars as a clean and "green" part of our transit network, and urge them to make implementation of the streetcar network a high priority.

Please take action by contacting your D.C. elected officials!

Thank you for your help!

Jason Broehm

Chair, Transportation Committee

Contact:
Jason Broehm, 202-299-0745, jason.broehmdc.sierraclub.org