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Talking Transit with Taskforce Member Doug Hunt
Some folks have said to us that “South Bend has lost too much population to support a ‘Modern Streetcar’ system. We just aren’t densely populated enough.”
Well… consider this:
The population of South Bend in 2019: 102,026 (and growing, by the way)
The population of South Bend in the heyday of the streetcar, 1930: 104,193
… and the same look at Mishawaka:
The population of Mishawaka in 2019: 50,363
The population of Mishawaka in the heyday of the streetcar, 1930: 28,630
…. And this does not include the student population of Notre Dame (12,680) and Saint Mary’s (1,400) Please note also that if there is a stop close to Notre Dame, these students will be likely regular users of the Modern Streetcar.
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