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Friday Video: RIP, The D.C. Streetcar

Advocates are mourning the loss of the D.C. streetcar ... but they'e not entirely sad to see it die.

The streetcars stopped running in our nation’s capital just over a week ago, after barely a decade in service. But it’s not too early for a post-mortem report on one of America’s most fraught transit projects … and maybe a victory lap?

Check out this deep dive from Cities of Lions, which offers the most thorough recap we’ve seen of Washington, D.C’s doomed attempt to add a whole new mode of transit — and why even some urbanists say it wasn’t worth saving. It’s a well-researched object lesson from the Obama era of streetcar build-outs, with some fun jokes and Futurama clips thrown in for good measure.

Stay tuned for lion masks, Godfather memes, and a Tears for Fears ukulele cover (oh my!) Watch it below or on YouTube.

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