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VIA's original logo, used until 2014. VIA was created in 1977 when the citizens of Bexar County voted in favor of a one-half cent sales tax to fund the service. Subsequently, VIA purchased transit assets from the City of San Antonio and began operations in March 1978, taking its name from the Latin word for "road".
Currently the track is rather short, running only 8 miles (13 km) from Downtown Houston to the Texas Medical Center and Reliant Park. However, construction begun in 2008 on a 30-mile (48 km) extension of the light rail system that was completed in 2013. VIA Metropolitan Transit (VIA for short) operates bus service in the San Antonio area. VIA ...
The service used original San Antonio streetcar No. 300, built in 1913 by the American Car Company and owned by the San Antonio Museums Association ever since the abandonment of the city's last streetcar lines in 1933. [1] The new Art Museum was opened in 1981 in the former Lone Star Brewery complex, which had been one of TXTC's customers.
The heritage Detroit Downtown Trolley in Detroit, Michigan, operated from 1976 until 2003. The Detroit trolley faced a steep decline in ridership after the Detroit People Mover system was installed in 1987. The carbarn for the former narrow gauge trolley was demolished in 2004, and the tracks have subsequently been removed.
A tourist trolley, also called a road trolley, is a bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram, usually with false clerestory roof. The vehicles are usually fueled by diesel , or sometimes compressed natural gas .
The San Antonio–Austin metroplex is an emerged metropolitan area in the US state of Texas, where the dominant core cities are San Antonio and Austin.This combined metropolitan region, composed of the Greater Austin and Greater San Antonio areas, has approximately 5 million people.
KAT's Reimagined plan phases out downtown trolleys to introduce new downtown connector along with other routes citywide starting Aug 26.
Texas Flag in San Antonio. Downtown San Antonio is the central business district of San Antonio, Texas, and the urban core of Greater San Antonio, a metropolitan area with nearly 2.5 million people. Downtown San Antonio is encircled by 1604 and I-410 loops and three interstate freeways: I-35, I-37, and I-10. Together, the three highways create ...