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H Street streetcar will begin running on schedule next week (but without passengers). [City Desk]

Five years removed from tragedy, Metro will return to automatic operation. [WUSA]

Metro CEO Richard Sarles is retiring. [City Desk]

A plug for a women’s history museum on the National Mall [Post]

The four proposals for a big Takoma Park development near the D.C. line [UrbanTurf]

Google Street View ventures into Columbia Heights–area bars (and presumably others). [New Columbia Heights]

How to make Ward 5 more bike friendly [WashCycle]

Today on the market: Southwest studio—-$225,000