San Diego Trolley
Light rail system serving San Diego, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The San Diego Trolley (known colloquially as "the Trolley") is a light rail system operating in the metropolitan area of San Diego. The Trolley's operator, San Diego Trolley, Inc. (reporting mark SDTI), is a subsidiary of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The trolley operates as a critical component of the MTS, with connections to and integrated travel tickets with the local bus systems.
The Trolley system serves 62 stations, over about 67.9 miles (109.3 km) of route, using three primary lines (the Blue, Green, and Orange lines) that operate daily, and the "downtown loop" heritage streetcar line (the Silver Line) that uses historic streetcars on select holidays. There is one downtown station where all the lines connect, and 13 other stations that provide transfers to a second line (and two of these also provide connections to heavy rail systems).
The Trolley began service on July 26, 1981, making it the oldest of the second-generation light rail systems in the United States. In 2023, the Trolley had the highest ridership of any light rail system in the United States, with 38,047,300 annual rides, or about 130,500 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023. In 2015, farebox receipts recovered 40.6% of operating costs; the California average of farebox recovery was 27.9%.[6]