5 contributors at the Arlington happy hour. Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Tonight is the latest Greater Greater Washington happy hour, this time at Guapo’s in Tenleytown.

We’ll start at 6:30 pm. Guapo’s is 4515 Wisconsin Avenue, on the block to the north of the Metro station. Exit on the east side of Wisconsin, turn around at the top of the escalator, then turn right.

Neil Flanagan is the host. Look for him upstairs; he’ll have a sign and some nametags. There’s no set program, so feel free to come by at any time.

Saturday, the Coalition for Smarter Growth is organizing a walking tour of the area around Rhode Island Avenue Metro. Right now, it’s “a hodge-podge of industrial and automobile-oriented uses crisscrossed by busy railroad tracks, a commuter arterial road and hilly topography,” but DC hopes to turn it into a walkable community with new development, pedestrian bridges over the tracks, and the Metropolitan Branch Trail.

The tour runs from noon-2 pm starting at the Metro station entrance. RSVP here.

The following week, we can hopefully finally get real numbers and facts on streetcar technologies at the streetcar technology forum. That’s Thursday, May 6th, 5-7 pm at the Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th St NW.

DDOT has also just announced that they’ll be showing off one of DC’s streetcars on a temporary track set up in the huge temporary parking lot at City Center DC. It’ll be accessible from the corner of 9th and H, NW and open from Wednesday, May 5th to Friday, May 7th from 11 am to 7 pm, and Saturday, May 8th from 11 to 5.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.