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City Accepts $14 Million Federal Streetcar Grant
City wins TIGER grant after "a brutal competition" where demand for transit dollars greatly exceeded the sums appropriated.
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O Goody, all Milwaukees transportation problems are solved, getting people to work, keeping them safe from robberies, crime, teaching kids to read, heroin, fentanyl epidemics. all solved by the street cars, Bucks arena.
As always, thank you for your well written, thoughtful and enlightening contribution, Bon Dohnal.
Simpleton,
We know you like to think the Heroin epidemic is located strictly on MIlwaukee’s North side, but that simply isn’t the case. Appears to be centered around every urban area.
https://www.doj.state.wi.us/dci/heroin-awareness/cases-county
We rode on both lines of the Portland Streetcar while on a summer vacation to the Pacific Northwest. The Portland Streetcar provides connections to the areas’s tourist attractions such as Pioneer Square, museums, Trailblazers arena, shopping district on the Portland transit mall (including Powell’s Bookstore), convention center and Chinatown (tasty inexpensive restaurants). We made connections to the MAX light rail system to take a memorable ride in a mountain tunnel on the way to Washington Park where the Rose Garden, Japanese Tea Garden and museums are located. We stayed at a motel on the outskirts of the city and had just a two block walk to a Tri-Met MAX station, without the need to travel in a car in challenging urban traffic conditions.
For tourists like us riding on the streetcar was easy to understand, predictable, very safe and connected to all the prime tourist destinations. Heck, the streetcar itself is a tourist attraction! Evidence of the streetcar’s economic impact on Portland was abundant with many residential, office and hotel high rises under construction. I am sure that the Milwaukee Streetcar will have a similar impact on the City of Milwaukee. It will contribute to tourism for folks traveling to destinations such as Summerfest and help the local economy by filling tables at restaurants and hotel rooms. We should see construction pick up even further as downtown Milwaukee enjoys a renaissance.
Until we reach a child literacy rate of 100%, a violent crime rate of zero, and get literally every single person off of heroin, Milwaukee should not spend a penny on anything else. Makes perfect sense, especially when Walker and Republicans in the legislature are going out of their way to help Milwaukee with huge funding increases for education, police officers, and drug treatment programs.
P. S. Tri-Met just began service on the new Orange Line to Clackamas County and of all places, Milwaukie Oregon in September. Information about the new light rail line can be found at this URL address: http://catchtheorange.com/
The article does not mention the mayor citing extensions to Haymarket and Bronzeville. The Streetcar route map says they are planned. An oversight I hope.
@M – He spoke of extending it up N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. to alderwoman Milele Coggs district during his speech.
It’s 119 years since the first plan for an electric line was proposed to run along the lake as part of the park that we know today. A stop would’ve been built at Lafayette Hill. Those plans included a modest velodrome located directly east of the Water Tower where walk-up food service and parking are today.