The document provides statistics and details about the DC Streetcar system including its fleet, vehicles, operator cabs, capacity for passengers, wheelchair accessibility, track mileage, power source, number of substations, catenary poles, and history of streetcars in DC. It notes that the streetcars are 66 feet long, have space for 2 wheelchairs per car, can accommodate 150 seated and standing passengers, receive 750v DC electricity from 3 substations via 75 catenary poles along 2.4 miles of track, and that a horse-drawn streetcar line first operated along H Street 142 years ago.

1. BY THE NUMBERS
H/BENNING FLEET
Vehicles
Operator
Per Vehicle
Operator Cabs
Per Vehicle
WARDS
The width of DC Streetcar doorways.
There is space for two wheelchairs in
each car.
4FEET WIDE
PEOPLE
THE DC STREETCAR
CAN ACCOMMODATE
SEATED AND STANDING
SINCE THE STREETCAR
FIRST CAME TO H STREET.
6
1
2
DDOT envisions
a complete system
that will eventually
be 37 miles long
and serve all 8 wards
dcstreetcar.com
142YEARS
66’
What does it take to run the H Street/Benning Line?
8’
750v DC
ELECTRICITY
3
SUBSTATIONS
75
CATENARY POLES
2.4
MILES OF TRACK
A horse-drawn
streetcar line
began operating
along H Street.
DC Streetcar will
begin operation
of their initial
line on H Street/
Benning Road
Electricity is delivered from the substations to the overhead wires and then to the streetcars.