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Earlier this month, ANC 7E passed a resolution of support for the full streetcar extension to the Benning Road Metro, and requested that the Mayor and DC Council ensure that the extension receives full funding in the 2022 budget. The resolution argues that the extension is a transit-equity issue, stating that “public transportation is a shared public benefit but can only function as such when it’s shared with all neighborhoods.”
The resolution comes at the heels of an open letter that some Ward 7 leaders circulated (including one of this article’s authors) in honor of transportation equity day and in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday on February 4 which also called for funding the streetcar to Benning Road Metro.
From Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer at Somos, gives Helen Washington, 76, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke s Episcopal Church in the Bronx. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
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The center of D.C. s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell hardest on Black and Latino residents. Ward 8, which is 92% Black, has seen the highest per-capita death rate from the virus in the District. And citywide, 74% of residents who have died from the coronavirus are Black, even though Black people make up 46% of the city s population.