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The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system serving San Diego County, California. ... with each trolley car estimated to cost between $850,000 (for a restored PCC ...
The line was built at a cost of $51 million (about $65.6 million in 2023 [8]), more than half of which came from federal funds, by the Loop Trolley Transportation Development District, which owns the line and the three replica-historic streetcars. Originally, the service was operated by a separate non-profit entity called the Loop Trolley Company.
In Philadelphia, a former trolley line (SEPTA Route 15, aka. the Girard Avenue Line), that was "bustituted" in 1992, resumed trolley service in 2005 using rebuilt historic cars (see below); two other former Philadelphia trolley lines have been proposed for a resumption in trolley service in the 2010s though such plans have stalled.
A Hop streetcar on St. Paul Avenue at Plankinton Avenue. The Hop, also known as the Milwaukee Streetcar, is a modern streetcar system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The system’s 2.1-mile (3.4 km) [5] [3] [6] original “M” line connects the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and Downtown to the Lower East Side and Historic Third Ward neighborhoods. [7]
The initial line in the San Diego Trolley system, the Blue Line first opened between Centre City San Diego and San Ysidro on July 26, 1981, [4] [12] at a cost of $86 million (equivalent to $288 million in 2023), using the existing tracks of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, which the Metropolitan Transit Development Board had purchased from Southern Pacific on August 20, 1979, for $18 ...
The system is single-track with several passing sidings, which mostly follows a reserved right-of-way at a cost of 13.7 million per mile. Ten replica historic streetcars and one restored historic streetcar are used on the line. The replica cars themselves cost $745,000 each.
Operating funds for the streetcar cost $2 million and had to be covered by further loans in 2007 and 2009 due to low advertising revenue and higher costs. [ 50 ] The streetcar was criticized for its slow speeds due to the lack of dedicated lanes and widespread transit signal priority , as well as disruptions because of cars that were improperly ...
The audit concluded that electric trolley fleet costs $31.2 million a year to own and operate while the hybrids would cost $22.6 million per year, a savings of $8.7 million per year. [33] The auditor acknowledged that the report did not consider the value of the overhead wire or social and environmental considerations, such as increased ...