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Show your love for the streetcar, beer, at inaugural “Hops and Stops” pub crawl April 4

Matt Wild
March 5, 2020
The awesomeness of the Milwaukee streetcar—a.k.a. The Hop—and the awesomeness of beer: two things all Milwaukeeans can agree on! (Right?) So wouldn't it be nice if those two things could be combined into one ev...

Here are the November ridership numbers for The Hop, and that’s it

Matt Wild
December 12, 2019
A total of 52,998 people rode the Milwaukee streetcar, The Hop, in November 2019. That's an average of 1,767 per day. The lightest day of traffic was, unsurprisingly, Thanksgiving, when only 645 people rode the...

Streetcar ridership continues to plummet to better-than-projected numbers

Matt Wild
November 6, 2019
Milwaukee's forever controversial streetcar system, The Hop, celebrated its first birthday last week. Happy birthday, The Hop! Even better, it was announced that Cleveland-based technology firm Everstream would...

Streetcar ridership down again, suggesting weather and festival season might have something to do with it

Matt Wild
October 11, 2019
It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

Streetcar ridership down from record-breaking July, so let’s just scrap the whole thing

Matt Wild
September 11, 2019
It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

The Hop logged more than 100,000 rides in July, but let’s complain about it anyway

Matt Wild
August 12, 2019
It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's still-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And, continuing a trend that start...

Here’s shocking video proof that the streetcar can run in snow

Matt Wild
January 28, 2019
We're almost three months into the life of The Hop, Milwaukee's long-in-the-works and forever-contentious downtown streetcar. And guess what? Things are going well! People are riding the thing, extensions are i...

A lot of people are riding The Hop, but let’s figure out how to complain about it anyway

Matt Wild
January 15, 2019
The Hop, you may have heard, is doing pretty well. An average of 2,297 people rode the thing in November, the same month the 2.1-mile streetcar system launched with a "Grand Hop-ening." Now, The Hop has release...

No shirt, no shoes, no streetcar: Hop on and read the new Streetcar Code of Conduct

Matt Wild
November 27, 2018
It's another big week for The Hop, a.k.a. the Milwaukee streetcar that launched earlier this month despite the hard work of those guys who made their own "STOP THE HOP" signs. Ridership numbers are better than ...

The streetcar’s “Grand Hop-ening”: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild
November 2, 2018
Friday afternoon, in an event dubbed both "historic" and "glorious," Milwaukee's long-awaited streetcar system, The Hop, officially opened to the public. A "Grand Hop-ening" at Cathedral Square Park celebrated ...

Someday this streetcar war’s gonna end. Until then, here’s the schedule for the “Grand Hop-ening”

Matt Wild
November 1, 2018
Everyone knows that iconic scene in Apocalypse Now. You know, the one where Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) soaks in some good ol' fashioned mayhem and destruction and says, "I love the smell of napa...

Yes! Yes! Oh god, yes! The Milwaukee streetcar begins service November 2

Matt Wild
September 28, 2018
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.After years of anticipation (heavy breathing), years of doom-and-gloom scenario...

The Hop to host streetcar bike ride, despite discouraging “less comfortable cyclists” from riding near streetcar

Matt Wild
September 20, 2018
Today at 6 p.m. (weather permitting, we assume?), The Hop and the Wisconsin Bike Fed will host a free bicycle ride along Milwaukee's soon-to-be-fully-operational streetcar route. This "relaxed ride through the ...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
September 7, 2018
Friday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter of Milwaukee public transportation (or would that be Friday The 7th?), the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar ...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the THIRD Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
July 26, 2018
Thursday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban of Milwaukee public transportation, the THIRD of the city's new streetcars arrived downtown. Like its p...

Follow these 16 simple tips if you want to avoid being murdered by the streetcar

Matt Wild
June 20, 2018
The last time we checked in on the Milwaukee streetcar (give us a few more weeks before we finally call it "The Hop"), people were taking pictures of the thing. But a lot has changed since then—for one, it's al...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the second Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
May 14, 2018
Monday morning, in an event akin to the release of The Godfather Part II, The Empire Strikes Back, or Ernest Saves Christmas, the SECOND of Milwaukee's new streetcars arrived downtown. Like its predecessor back...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
March 26, 2018
Today, in an event akin to the arrival of a President, a Pope, or Jesus Christ himself come back to spread the good word about public transportation, the first of Milwaukee's new streetcars arrived downtown. Co...

The spot of the former “Spot 4MKE” is for sale, will be used to pay for streetcar expansion

Matt Wild
June 2, 2016
//Back in March, we wrote about the end of "The Spot 4MKE," an ill-fated "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee that sought to inject some life into a disused downtown parking lot on the co...

Common Ground triumphs, anti-streetcar crowd fizzles

Matt Wild
September 3, 2015
Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...
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