A couple of weeks ago DC Councilman Jim Graham blocked funding for the Anacostia streetcar and demanded DDOT hold a public hearing to talk about its plan.

The meeting was held on November 7. BeyondDC wasn’t able to attend, but Greater Greater Washington did, and posted a run-down this morning. Councilman Graham also responded this morning to an email from BeyondDC, confirming GGW’s take and letting us know that the meeting video is available online.

Long story short, DDOT will build the streetcar line below, and will return to the Council with more details on the three block segment between W Street and Good Hope Road, which is new. For more details, check out GGW’s post.

Your new streetcar route, in red.

The new route is better than the old one, so that’s good news. We still don’t really know what the timeline is, though, or how much delay this whole political mess caused. BeyondDC is glad Graham was able to get a better route out of DDOT, but now can we please, please move on and actually build the thing?