Low Ridership Ends Trolley Test Project
The city’s pilot trolley project will be discontinued June 26 due to low ridership, officials announced.
The trolley, which costs 25 cents and runs from Sony Studios to the Hayden Tract office area, averaged 100 passengers a week when it needed at least 500 to be viable, said Konya Vivanti, the city’s transportation/air quality program specialist.
The trolley is leased from a private company for $48,000 a year and is operated by the Culver City Municipal Bus Lines.
It was created in August to transport workers from nearby studios and industrial areas to downtown on their lunch breaks and to alleviate parking and traffic problems, she said.
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