Tagged Milwaukee Streetcar

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

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 ...

Ald. Joe Dudzik’s proposed food truck ban fails, streetcar rape still a possibility

Matt Wild

April 21, 2015

Earlier this year, Milwaukee Ald. Joe Dudzik proposed an ordinance banning food trucks from his southwest-side 11th district, citing traffic problems, litter, and—cough, cough—congregations of people. Today, fo...

Let’s watch the anti-streetcar movement concede defeat, eat its own

Matt Wild

February 25, 2015

It’s been just over two weeks since the approval of the Greatest Thing In Milwaukee History (not including Channel 12’s “Hello Milwaukee” song): a 2.4-mile downtown streetcar line. Yes, after months of bizarrel...

OH MY GOD THE MILWAUKEE STREETCAR HAS BEEN APPROVED

Matt Wild

February 10, 2015

At a meeting this morning, the Milwaukee Common Council voted 9-6 against four items related to the Milwaukee Streetcar. The votes killed motions to further delay and reconsider the endlessly contentious, best-...

Streetcar rape, chicken sacrifices, and 5 more Milwaukee scare stories of 2015

Matt Wild

February 2, 2015

//The world is a vast and wonderful place, full of people, places, and experiences just waiting to be discovered. Every day holds the possibility of a new beginning; every hour, minute, and second ripe wit...

Alderman protecting Milwaukee from streetcar rape now protecting it from food trucks, too

Matt Wild

January 30, 2015

Last week, outspoken Milwaukee Streetcar opponent Ald. Joe Dudzik made news by farting out this incredible bullshit on the radio: “There’s going to be a couple of assaults, or maybe a rape or a shooting on one...