Troubled Milwaukee streetcar remains 30% under pre-pandemic peak despite new tracks - Badger Institute

Troubled Milwaukee streetcar remains 30% under pre-pandemic peak despite new tracks - Badger Institute

End of federal money makes city scramble to cover operating costs of the Hop Despite a much ballyhooed second line added last April, ridership on Milwaukee’s financially challenged streetcar, the Hop, last year was still nearly 30 percent below that of pre-COVID 2019. And with the evaporation of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds that in 2022 covered nearly 65 percent of the streetcar’s operating cost, the City of Milwaukee is using Transpo…