- Tucson Modern Streetcar Facebook Page
Love it or hate it, the streetcar is coming. The Sun Link website says that the project is currently 85% complete, so don’t expect a joy ride until midsummer of next year.
Sunday night party animals caught a glimpse of a unicorn, or AKA the modern streetcar. Allan Sturm gave us permission to use his footage of the taxpayer nightmare chugging along Congress Street.
Hopefully this thing moves faster than the Sun Tran on a holiday schedule, but it does look cooler than the 3D animated clips Sun Link fed us in the beginning.
This article appears in Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2013.
For $175 millon investment, how long will it take Tucson to show a profit?
I thought this was a free service and the extinct nightclubs,resturants,ect,ect business payed for it,
Hip hipster hooray. Now the kids can begin the tipplin’ at the new, pricey watering holes downtown, getting off at each stop, and eventually ride all the way to UMC to get their stomachs pumped! Thank goodness for infrastructure improvements like this one!
Jim, public transit is not for profit. It is subsidized by government to provide us citizens with services. Why is this concept so hard for people to understand?
This is public transportation; there’s no such thing as turning a profit due to the high subsidies from local govt. Anytime you try to raise a fare to cope with higher operating costs, all hell breaks loose.