Videoįor more project details, including the project timeline, financing, route and possible extensions, see our extensive past coverage.Screen 1: The top image shows two selected audio events in a track. The vehicle, with a police escort, drove backwards on the track under its own power to the maintenance facility. UPDATE: Streetcar service resumed early Monday evening after the streetcar was lifted back onto the track by three tow trucks. That collision did not push the vehicle off the tracks.

The system suffered its first direct collision with a vehicle in February 2020. It is the first major collision for the streetcar system, which launched in November 2018. The system does not cause the lights to flip immediately and instead extends green lights or initiates a yellow-to-red progression.

The intersection where the collision occurred is one of several on the route where a location-based system triggers the traffic lights to change to allow the streetcar through without needing to wait at the light. The streetcar, which was knocked across the southbound travel and parking lanes, knocked over a traffic light and showed visible damage to the operator cab at the front of the vehicle.Įach of the city’s five streetcars are 67 feet long and weigh 83,000 pounds. Streetcar service was still suspended at 9:45 a.m., but a tow truck from AM Towing had pulled the garbage truck from the scene. A total of 1,114 rides per day were recorded in February, nearly double the 2022 total and triple that of 2021.Ī DPW official said the department believes there were two people in the privately-owned garbage truck. The system’s ridership has been rebounding since the pandemic’s onset.

The garbage truck appears from offscreen, striking the streetcar.Ī Department of Public Works spokesperson said there were no passengers on board the vehicle during the early morning collision. The streetcar’s operator was transported to an area hospital.Ī security camera video provided to Urban Milwaukee by management of the Colby Abbot Building shows the streetcar entering the intersection with a green light.

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