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$1.3 million of that is covered by sponsorship and advertising deals, but with no ticket sales to offset the operating costs, the city faces a $3.1 million shortfall. Making matters worse, Milwaukee is paying an estimated $4.5 million to operate the Hop this year. Would it not make sense to use at least some of that to pay back the federal government and be done with a streetcar that does not have a prayer of ever paying for itself? The State of Wisconsin and its communities are set to receive a staggering $20 billion, with $400 million earmarked for transit projects alone. “While streetcars in other cities, like Kansas City, Tuscon, Cincinnati and Oklahoma City have already begun to see a rebound in ridership this spring, the Milwaukee streetcar has not,” Polcyn added.

Consider this: Polcyn reports that while bus ridership fell by 50% during the pandemic, the streetcar’s ridership dropped 85%. There was, in other words, no reason for a decline in ridership other than the fact that the public simply doesn’t want to ride the Hop. While the COVID-19 pandemic certainly played a role in the steep decline in ridership over the past year, the Hop averaged 495 riders per day in December, but that number fell all the way to 450 in April, when the weather was obviously much nicer and COVID vaccines were widely available, making people who might have been otherwise reluctant more likely to venture back out into society. Thirty-seven of those trains pulled up and pulled away without gaining a single new rider.” In that time, 48 trains passed by the Cathedral Square platform, but just 22 people got on board. “We wanted to see what it looked like for ourselves,” reported FOX 6 Milwaukee’s Bryan Polcyn, “so on April 27 - a partly cloudy Tuesday with a high of 70 degrees, we watched a single streetcar platform for eight hours, 9 a.m. Now the public isn’t even willing to sink $0 into a ride on the Hop, as ridership has plummeted to just 450 rides per day. After the first year, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and the Hop’s other supporters knew that the original plan to charge $1 per ride would be a nonstarter as Milwaukeeans would be unlikely to sink even such a minimal cost into a streetcar that only travels in a two-mile loop.

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Thanks to a sponsorship deal with Potawatomi Hotel and Casino, rides were free for the first year.Įven then, ridership waned once the novelty wore off.

The word “business,” however, shouldn’t be taken literally. The Hop, a $128 million boondoggle paid for with a combination of federal money and tax incremental financing, opened for business in late 2018. This, on a much larger scale, is what the City of Milwaukee has been doing with its streetcar system for years, and the terrible film it’s decided to keep watching is a horror movie. In order to justify this investment to ourselves, we invest even more in a vain attempt at salvaging it.

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The price of the movie tickets and the hour we spent in the theater are sunk costs, meaning that they cannot be recovered. The answer lies in what’s known as the “sunk cost fallacy”-our tendency to invest more of our time and money into things that we have already invested our time and money. Besides, why would we want to keep watching a movie we hate? It’s beautiful outside and if we leave now we can watch the sunset from the bar patio down the street. At this point, we might as well stick it out, right?

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But we’re an hour in and paid $28.50 for two tickets plus another $25 for popcorn and sodas. We’ve all been there: We know the movie we’re watching is terrible. Alliance war is just garbage - but may more enjoyable if some of the previous time sinks get fixed.Milwaukee’s streetcar was always a massive boondoggle but, as Dan O’Donnell writes, its problems are now worse than ever. Throw some hidden bosses (galactus-like) into the mix (swgoh style where you throw your teams at it)ģ. You should be able to unlock top tier rewards with 8 people - add another layer of completion for raid buffs for the next suggestion. I miss swgoh where single people could clear raids on old content. Instead - have one raid map with some variance. Get rid of 3 strike team 24man raids - what a garbage heap of time wasting repetitiveness. Yondu? Really? I almost didn't do this blitz (even though gold is so scarce).

Let us auto complete milestones for blitz events where we already have the character at 7 stars. I could drone on and on - so here is a few suggestions that would help with the amount of unnecessary time needed for this game. This game is stagnant - blitz is garbage, raiding is garbage, alliance war is ridiculous. I've been playing since launch as a F2p player - and I have completed pretty much everything in the game besides a few unlocks (shuri - that may actually be it).

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