Tag: Milwaukee Streetcar

Streetcar update: 63,383 trips in July; ridership down during RNC

September 11, 2024

Milwaukee's streetcar system, The Hop, recorded 63,383 trips in July 2024. Streetcar System Manager Andrew Davis-Lockward revealed the number Wednesday morning at a meeting of the Public Works Committee. The...

We’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. More than 58,000 rides on The Hop in June 2024. We watched The Hop have its second-best month in four years. All those rides will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to argue.

Matt Wild

July 24, 2024

Milwaukee's streetcar system, The Hop, reported 58,441 rides in June 2024. The number represents The Hop's highest monthly ridership since July 2023 (65,749), and its second-highest monthly ridership since Dece...

The Hop introducing new ‘Festivals Line’ for Summerfest

Press Release

May 30, 2024

The Hop Introducing New ‘Festivals Line’ for Summerfest Combined route will operate until 1 a.m. and provide more frequent service to the Lakefront while eliminating the need for transfers Milwaukee – The Hop...

“Enhanced streetcar service” may alleviate traffic, parking during lakefront festivals

Matt Wild

May 8, 2024

Heavy downtown traffic and outrageous parking fees during major lakefront festivals got you down? There's a streetcar for that. And maybe some "enhanced" service to go along with it. On Wednesday, Milwaukee'...

We’re just gonna print the number of rides The Hop recorded in March (seriously, that’s it) and then let you fight about it, okay?

Matt Wild

April 16, 2024

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18 pictures of people taking pictures of the opening of the streetcar’s Couture Transit Concourse

Matt Wild

April 11, 2024

A long-in-the-works Milwaukee public transportation project officially opened on Thursday: the Couture Transit Concourse. Located in the street-level belly of the just-about-finished Couture luxury apartment to...

The Hop’s L-Line to fully open April 11

Press Release

April 3, 2024

The Hop’s L-Line to Fully Open April 11 The streetcar’s first new extension to begin operating seven days per week and provide service to the lakefront via the new transit concourse inside the Couture Milwa...

Let’s argue about the streetcar’s 2024 ridership numbers

Matt Wild

March 14, 2024

When we last argued about the streetcar's ridership numbers, The Hop had delivered a total of 494,445 rides in 2023. As always, this made people extremely angry for some reason. "HOW MUCH MONEY DID IT MAKE ON F...

Let’s argue about the streetcar’s 2023 ridership numbers

Matt Wild

February 13, 2024

When we last argued about the streetcar's ridership numbers, The Hop had delivered 31,246 rides in September 2023, and 41,176 rides in October 2023. As always, this made people extremely angry. "HOW MUCH MONEY ...

A lot of people rode that darn streetcar during the big Harley/Bastille weekend

Matt Wild

July 25, 2023

Despite the ire of Republicans in the state legislature and the withering opinions of dudes on Facebook who list "School of Hard Knocks" as their education, a whole lot of folks rode the Milwaukee streetcar a f...

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 ...

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