I would never have expected such incompetence from a city that is half black.
After all, everything else in D.C. runs so well.
The Washington Post reports: Broken pieces of rail have already appeared. Streetcar doors scrape against platforms. Switches that guide 35-ton vehicles from one stretch of track to another occasionally don’t work.
In a new assessment released Friday, outside experts found “no fatal flaws” in the District’s fledgling streetcar system. But there are flaws, and many are serious.