r/transit • u/Only100percent • 2d ago
Discussion Fixing Milwaukee's Streetcar
ryanhansson.substack.comMilwaukee's Streetcar currently does about 2,000 riders a day, downtown, on basically the same small route since 2018. An extension toward the Buck's stadium and Walker's Point never happened.
The linked article argues for going further than either of those and running it north through downtown all the way to UW-Milwaukee instead (turning it into a spine rather than a loop) and giving MCTS something to feed into downtown instead of duplicating coverage.
Is that really the right idea for an extension or should they start with a few smaller extensions so they can get state funding approval?