What was a year round operation is now summer only-
Service Hours
Wed-Sunday
1:45PM-9:15PM
Please see Trolley Schedule or call (262) 653-4290 for more info.
Lakefront Trolley Schedule
The Lakefront Trolley will end operations for the year on August 28, 2022. The decision to end the trolley service earlier than usual is due to a shortage of bus operators. Service will resume in May 2023.
Kenosha Area Transit appreciates the public’s patience with any inconvenience this may cause. While the staffing shortage is a challenge nationwide, Kenosha Area Transit is working diligently in recruitment and retention efforts for bus operators.
People who may be interested in applying for a job with transit may find details at: KenoshaTransit.org/jobs.
Maybe enough Kenosha pwople can say:
“I’ll be glad to wiork for you, but only if you restore the trolley.”
Suppose there were forty High-school-graduating railfans that would tell the transit authority::
“We will postpone college a year and weork flor if you’ll reopen the streetcar line.”
Shaker Heights Ralid Transit in its private days had a ubique arrangement with rush-hour conductors. It was running two-car (possibly three-car?) trains of center-door cars requiring conductors. Regular commuters had part-time juobs serving as conductors going from Shaker Heights to downtown Cleveland in the morning and returning home in the evenig.
Could unionds agree to that today?
First point: 40 high school graduates are not in a realistic position to attach strings to their job applications.
Second point: If Sound Transit can operate light-rail service with one-man crews, part-time employees as suggested above are not really necessary.
I guess you can’t spell ‘trolley’ without T-R-O-L-L.
This is the “Lakefront Trolley” in question.
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The line in the news release about there not being enough bus drivers should have been enough of a red flag for anybody.
From the Kenosha tourism web site (today):[QUOTE]What’s the difference between a trolley and a streetcar? In Kenosha, the streetcar refers to the City of Kenosha’s year-round Electric Streetcar service. The streetcars travel on a track, connected to electrical wires overheard. Whereas, the City of Kenosha’s Lakefront Trolley is a rubber-wheel trolley that operates on roadways like any other vehicle and only operates seasonally.
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No what happened is that in 2018 Kenosha City counsil quitly killed the Kenosha Streetcar expansion after a 4 year battle withe the same anti-transit anti rail front groups and quetly relalecated the federal transit money to bus expansion and roadway improvements. Since this was done in the height of COVID no one from the FTA cared to investigate as they were out on COVID leave.
But what is curtailed ? ?
The PCCs or the rubber-tired retro-look vehicles?
The story says nothing at all about the PCCs. It is entirely about the seasonal trolley-look bus service being cut back, nominally due to a driver shortage.
Ok, who are they front groups for?
No, not unless the people became union members and paid union dues
THaks Overmod for the clarification, and it’s good news.
