This is 280 at 17 with the clouds over the Santa Clara Valley and san jose, 44 52, and 56 at the coast and 66 inland with the most sunshine at lunch and 76 inland and by 7 00 we will still have clouds at the coast and mid60s to upper 60s by 7 00 and that is 9 benefit with everyone else getting home. I want my sleep back. Leyla . Good thing the time change does not happen on a monday. Here is a look at san rafael the drive on 101 southbound the headlights are coming up to 580 looking clear and that is northbound as we look at the tail lights headed northbound, not finding any. At the waldo tunnels the drive from mill valley to sausalito is clear and all of that activity we saw early this morning and now finished so the zipper truck made its way across the span of the bridge and the median is where it should be and where the problems are. Will apple make the smart me watch a technical device . What can we expect . Am people is hosting an event at the Yerba Buena Center which is lit up. T
It s part streetcar, part bus, and it ran in Arlington and Fairfax in the 1930s – Greater Greater Washington
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Meeting one of Washington s first Black streetcar drivers
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In a previous blog post, we told you about the history of the District s original streetcar system, which dated back to the 1860s when the coaches were pulled by horses. After going electric in the last decade of the 19th century, the streetcars quickly became a crucial part of transportation in the nation s capital, just as they were in other cities across the country.
But Washington s system which gradually coalesced from a hodgepodge of small companies into a single entity, the sprawling Capital Transit Co. in 1933 faced special problems. One dilemma was Congress insistence that the power source be buried underground between the tracks. That made the system especially vulnerable to snow, ice, and summertime heat expansion of the metal slots into which the cars plows were plugged in, which sometimes prevented them from drawing power and led to congestion-causing breakdowns. The Demands of routine maintenance were relentless, transportation historian Robert C. Post writes.