---
title: DDOT Benning Road Reconstruction and Streetcar Project
url: "https://www.systra.com/usa/project/ddot-benning-road-reconstruction-and-streetcar-project/"
type: projects
date_published: 2023-03-16
date_modified: 2023-09-08
schema:
  @type: WebPage
language: en-US
word_count: 222
reading_time: 2 min
canonical: "https://www.systra.com/usa/project/ddot-benning-road-reconstruction-and-streetcar-project/"
featured_image: "https://www.systra.com/usa/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/03/washington_dc_street_cars_47_m-rakola_capa-pictures.jpg"
type-market:
  - Rail and Transit
type-service:
  - Electrical and Traction Power Systems
type-solution:
  - Engineering
---

# DDOT Benning Road Reconstruction and Streetcar Project

![DDOT Benning Road Reconstruction and Streetcar Project](https://www.systra.com/usa/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/03/washington_dc_street_cars_47_m-rakola_capa-pictures.jpg)

SYSTRA was the designer of record for Benning Road Streetcar Implementation
Project, a public-private partnership (P3). This was a design-build project of
2.4 miles of roadway, a rail line, maintenance facility, and yard from H Street
at Washington Union Station to Benning Road.

As the lead designer, SYSTRA was responsible for design management,
architecture, electrical traction power, and track alignment design.

Minimalistic 350 single-cable catenary wires on thin cantilevers and single wire
span wires allowed for a non-obtrusive catenary system that blended into the
environment and was visually pleasing. Three traction power substations along
the alignment provided redundant power and housed in architecturally pleasing
buildings that blend into the community effortlessly and safely.

The CBTC was designed for the maintenance of streetcars with the training center
and administrative office areas, featuring a state-of-the-art, LEED compliant
facility. The building includes three tracks to service vehicles, overhead
cranes, maintenance pits, mezzanine platforms for servicing overhead equipment,
turntables, hoists, and truck servicing equipment, a full back shop for
parts/tool storage, benches and work areas for motor and small equipment repair,
and full compressed air tool layout and connections within a modern facility
using radiant floor heating. The yard allowed for storage of 15 streetcar
vehicles and provides a carwash facility, wheel truing machine, and service bays
for interior car cleaning.