Washington Business Journal reports that the District has canceled its $8.7 million contract for two streetcars with Oregon-based United Streetcar LLC.
Apparently another bidder, the Inekon Group, asserted that the contract was improperly issued:
Inekon built the District's first two streetcars. It offered to build the next two, slated to run on the H Street/Benning Road line, [...]
H Street NE, October 11
H Street Festival Gallery. Sept. 17th. © 2011 Matt Dunn
800 Block 13th Street, NE. © 2011 Matt Dunn
Garbage Good As Gone: When is a pile of trash sitting on the sidewalk not a pile of trash sitting on the sidewalk? Apparently when the D.C. Department of Public Works declares it's not there anymore. Calling 311 about garbage might lead to the case being "closed," but that only means it's been investigated—not removed. [...]
Sneaker Con Gallery, 1333 H Street, NE. August 6-7. © 2011 Matt Dunn
X2 Bus, 8th and H Street, NE. © 2011 Matt Dunn
Tipsy Tenth: Ever feel like the drivers around you are incompetent or blind? Turns out, they're probably just drunk. A AAA Mid-Atlantic survey finds one in ten drivers admits to driving drunk in the last year alone. Since only die-hard drunk drivers are likely to volunteer to a AAA researcher that they've done it, odds [...]
Nomageddon: The East Coast is virtually paralyzed today, crippled by snow from Boston to Raleigh, N.C. Except here in the District, where we got the cold and the wind that accompanied all the snow, but nothing else. Since we're willing to bet a high percentage of people in the region have new snow shovels this [...]
Ho, Ho, Ho: Now you can do your holiday shopping on your way to watch a Georgetown Hoyas basketball game—the downtown holiday market opened up again today. Vendors, including crafters and local restaurants, will be out from noon to 8 p.m. until Dec. 23. (A few generations ago, of course, going shopping along 7th Street [...]
As the Chandra Levy trial rolls on, the proceedings will eventually dwell on a creepy theory: Authorities believe murder suspect Ingmar Guandique has a portrait of his victim tattooed on his chest. H Street tattoo artist Paul Roe may be setting them straight.
In 2008, D.C. cops checked out Guandique in a California prison, [...]
H Street NE, October 4
H Street, NE. © 2010 Matt Dunn
