San Diego Trolley
Millions of people visit San Diego every year to experience San Diego’s outstanding tourist attractions. San Diego is eighth largest city of America with more than one and a half million people already residing in the city. The influx of millions of visitors every year in addition to local population created an issue for transportation within city. The problems with parking, jammed roads and heavy traffic are evident traffic problems round the year on the roads of San Diego. According to the traffic department in San Diego, almost 68 hundred thousand miles are travelled on the roads of the city daily.
San Diego Trolley system provides the best possible solution to visitors to enjoy their time in San Diego without worrying about traffic and parking issues. If you are visiting San Diego for tourism, just park your car at one of the free parking near Trolley stations and ride on the trolley to take a complete tour of San Diego and its attractive sights without facing traffic issues. San Diego metropolitan Transit system (MTS) initiated Trolley service in 1981 that is now 6th most used trolley system in United States. There are now three lines for trolleys in the city playing a major role in providing assistance to tourists as well as taking off the traffic load from the roads of San Diego.
San Diego trolley system provides travelers an opportunity to enjoy their time in the city with their own pace. You can switch and board trolleys anywhere from the 53 stations located throughout the city. The reach of the Trolley system covered all downtown San Diego as well as it reach up to the border city of Tijuana in Mexico. San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) invested a good amount of money on Trolley network and recently expanded and upgraded the network with SD-100 vehicles. The Trolley system provides travelers with a very unique combination of entertainment with comfort. The Trolley service is known as the preeminent way to glimpse the beauty of San Diego.
Using Trolleys instead of your own car can save you time and money as you can avoid parking payments and the journey keeps on its time track. The tickets are cheap and are affordable. You have an option to choose between the three lines, Blue, Orange and Green based on your choices of locations to visit. All three lines provide you three different routes with connections at different stations that enable you to reach anywhere in San Diego using the Trolley service. The Blue Line trolley primarily operates in the old town area, while Orange Line trolley operates in the center of city reaching out El Cajon, and Green Line trolley, the newest one, operates between down town San Diego and the city of Santee.
The success of trolley system in taking the load off the roads of San Diego encouraged the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) of San Diego to initiate many future plans for the new trolley lines. One of the future projects under consideration is to cover coastal areas of San Diego through extended trolley System. Visitors hope that in near future, they can also reach the white sand beaches of San Diego through their favorite ride.