Riverside Avondale Night Trolley Launch This Weekend

[Captain Zissou]

The inhumanity!!! I can already see the headlines:  "Local efforts to boost walkability and appeal of urban neighborhood leads to crowded restaurants!!". Jim Love won't allow this to last for long.

[Bridges]

Expect LOOOOOOONG waits at restaurants from 6-8. Plan on it along the route. Get somewhere early, stay or hang at the bar, then move on to somewhere off the path, or wait to eat late, but it is going to be busy. Last time the wait at restaurants in Avondale was almost an hour on Saturday.

Hit the early bird gramps.  Then you can make it home in time to batten down the hatches and hunker down before the rioting starts. 

[funwithteeth]

Guys, if you don't stop dogpiling on mtrain, he might post "YAWN!!!!!!!!!" and then where will you be?

[Bridges]

I can see the Saturday night meltdown now...



Don't you people have homes?!?!?  Don't you people have jobs?!?!?

[fieldafm]

In all seriousness, I would encourage as many of you as possible to ride this service tonight and tomorrow night.

Let's show JTA this is viable AND can be expanded into Downtown/San Marco/etc.  The only way to do that, is to put your butts in the seat this weekend.

I guarantee you will meet some awesome people on the trolley.

[exnewsman]

JTA ran a very positive story about this new trolley service on its Making Moves TV show this week. Interviews with Mike Field, Jim Love and several riders.

[fieldafm]

JTA ran a very positive story about this new trolley service on its Making Moves TV show this week. Interviews with Mike Field, Jim Love and several riders.

When does that go on youtube?

[fieldafm]

Pretty good crowd last night!

If you didn't have the opportunity, would encourage you to utilize the service tonight. I met some really cool people on board last night (ranging from 22-67years old, very diverse) and had a great time!

Grassroots and Green Man Gourmet got restocked with passes. Highly, highly encourage you to buy passes ahead of time either there or Intuition, Bold City, Open Road Bicycles, Let Them Eat Cake or European Street.

Also, please note... Trolley drivers CANNOT MAJKE CHANGE. 

[Lucasjj]

The trolley is packed tonight. The general consensus is for more service. Its quite the jolley crowd.

[IrvAdams]

So happy to hear this! Grassroots efforts win again!

[Bridges]

Great time last night. Absolutely packed trolleys, but never had any trouble tracking them or getting on.  People were really excited about it.  Catch a bite to eat in five points or Orsay, then trolley to king at or bold city.  Some had hopped on from their house, some had driven to one spot and trolley from there.  Great foundation to build off of.

I doubt you'd find a single business that did not benefit from the service last night.

[able]

Rode the trolley both Friday and Saturday. Had a blast as always. Gotta make one complaint though... It went down to only one trolley at 1am on both nights. We waited at a bus stop in five points with 15 other people for about 30 min. I eventually just caught a cab (at 1:35am) so we could get home.

[fieldafm]

Thanks for riding Able. After midnight, only one trolley runs until 2am so the headways are about 25-30 minutes.. meaning it will take a little longer to catch a trolley after midnight.

This is still a trial period, so JTA has to test demand before making any changes.  It only took three years to get to this point, so hopefully after the next 4 months we'll see some really positive changes.

[mtraininjax]

We put 22 on number 2015 at Belvedere and Park on Friday night, took it to the fish, then to Silver Cow, Peles back to the cow and then back to Belvedere. Good ride Friday night.

Sat night was MM friends party, then went to O'brothers and ended on roof of Black Sheep. Good times.

[fieldafm]

Happy to report that even with less than ideal conditions Friday night, ridership for Feb was up over 46 percent from Jan.