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^ Awesome! Chicago's little brother gets non-bus transit!
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 4:30 AM
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Very cool!

How soon will phase 2 construction begin? What will the likely frequencies be on the initial line?
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 5:05 AM
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^ Awesome! Chicago's little brother gets non-bus transit!

Let urbanism in the Great Lakes region continue to spread....
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I had to, you know? Just having fun.

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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 5:07 AM
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Congrats to Milwaukee!


I still think the routing is a confusing disaster, though. One-way couplets, weird dog legs, spurs, etc.
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I don't get what the problem is. Are you implying that a streetcar is just a glorified bus and not worthy to get excited over? Or do you not believe that the route will actually get built?
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 11:18 AM
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 3:41 PM
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I don't get what the problem is. Are you implying that a streetcar is just a glorified bus and not worthy to get excited over? Or do you not believe that the route will actually get built?
He was deriding the poster for calling Milwaukee Chicago's little brother: FIB definition urban dictionary. The term isn't really isolated to automobile usage when I lived in WI it was used to describe all aspects of illini stupidity.

On a side note as someone who spent a few years in WI and having seen the KRM, High speed rail, and light rail killed glad to see some form of new rail transit finally make it's way back into WI. Hopefully this is the foot in the door that the Milwaukee area needs so they can start seeing some benefits of rail transit so other projects can get some momentum. From afar the streetcar proposal doesn't seem perfect, or as beneficial as some of the other rail proposals, but it's a step in the right direction. Congrats on getting past the political inertia of WI that seems to want to say no to everything that isn't a massive highway interchange project these days.
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He was deriding the poster for calling Milwaukee Chicago's little brother
that's probably true, but i don't see why milwaukee cheeseheads would be indignant about having their city called chicago's little brother. in my opinion, chicago and milwaukee, more than any other city pair in the nation, most clearly represent a big brother/little brother sibling relationship. despite their differences, you can readily tell that the two cities are family, that they come from the same DNA, one of them just got really freaking big because it became the railroad hub of the continent back in the 19th century.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 4:08 PM
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Yeah it seems so obvious that it would be the little brother that it never occurred to me that anyone would take issue with it.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 7:50 PM
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if milwaukee moves forward on its plan to have the line under construction by the end of this year, then that would make four midwest cities constructing their streetcar starter lines at the same time!

- Cincinnati - 3.6 mile starter lin - U/C

- Detroit - 3.3 mile starter line - U/C

- Milwaukee - 2.5 mile starter line - Approved

- Kansas City - 2.0 mile starter line - U/C


not bad at all. it would leave Indy and Columbus as the only midwest metros over 1M people without any form of rail transit, though columbus is once again toying with a streetcar/light rail plan.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 10:35 PM
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Chill out! It was a joke and an obvious one at that. Jeez.
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Streetcar Construction Starts in October

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Construction work on the utilities will begin in advance of the track and overhead wire system, with design work being completed next month for the public utilities. Contracts will be awarded for that work in September. The first streetcar project shovels will go into the ground in October. The utility work is expected to be completed in August 2016.
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any updates on the streetcar?
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Old Posted Aug 12, 2015, 10:22 PM
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any updates on the streetcar?
Shovels are set to go into the ground in October.
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Old Posted Aug 13, 2015, 3:57 PM
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This is huge, can't wait for this to start!! Very exciting time in Milwaukee, as all of the current developments look stellar.
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Utility work underway for Milwaukee streetcar



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We Energies has begun their part of the preparations for Milwaukee's highly contested streetcar.

Despite varied opinions on whether Milwaukee should have a streetcar, the project is approved and the estimated $20 million utility preparation could be done as soon as early May.
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I was wondering for those living in Milwaukee and in other American cities that are getting streetcar systems: do you see this investment as a step towards actual rapid transit, or do you view it as politicians 'copping out' by doing a cursory investment towards transit that doesn't actually make much of a difference on its own?

I get the feeling that a lot of these projects are no better than buses except in aesthetics, especially since most of them lack dedicated corridors and signal prioritization.
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I was wondering for those living in Milwaukee and in other American cities that are getting streetcar systems: do you see this investment as a step towards actual rapid transit, or do you view it as politicians 'copping out' by doing a cursory investment towards transit that doesn't actually make much of a difference on its own?

I get the feeling that a lot of these projects are no better than buses except in aesthetics, especially since most of them lack dedicated corridors and signal prioritization.
In Milwaukee's case, I look at this as the city's first step toward a rail transit network. We've had some failed attempts at light rail which Milwaukee definitely needs so I see the streetcar as Milwaukee's way of saying, hey this is working, maybe now it's time for light rail.

Quick update, heavy utility work now ongoing all the way down St. Paul and at other various places along the route.
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is there a map for what has actually been approved to date? is it one line?

brewers park would be great but I assume it's too far from the CBD
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