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The Silver Line is a 〔 heritage streetcar light rail line operated by the San Diego Trolley, an operating division of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. It currently operates the "downtown loop"; a circle of tracks around Downtown San Diego, and is operated using renovated PCC streetcars. Service for the line currently only operates every 30 minutes during Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:50 am to 2 pm as well as Weekends and select Holidays from 10:50 am to 3:30 pm.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= San Diego Vintage Trolley )〕 Due to its limited days and hours of operation, and due to some service interruptions throughout the year, the Silver Line transported just 29,104 riders during FY 2014 according to the MTS. The line is one of four lines in the Trolley system, the others include the Blue, Orange, and Green lines. ==History== The Silver Line is the fourth line in the San Diego Trolley system as well as the first circular route with service beginning in 2011. Planning for the Silver Line dates back to the early 1990s, upon the completion of the Downtown Loop, consideration was given to providing a downtown trolley service that circles around the loop. MTS (then MTDB) originally considered using three Vienna Class N1 cars formerly used on the Wiener Stadtbahn in Vienna, Austria, but their age and limited power proved incompatible with the present trolley system, and renovations to make them so were considered unfeasible. Eventually in 2005, MTS would settle on using PCC streetcars; which were formerly used by the San Diego Electric Railway, San Diego's former transit service, in the 1930s and 40s. Between 2005 to 2010, MTS acquired six PCC streetcars formerly used in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and would partner with the San Diego historic streetcar society,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=San Diego Vintage Trolley Website )〕 a non-profit organization developed to educate the public of the history of the San Diego Electric Railway, to help restore these streetcars for use on the eventual line.〔 In early 2011 the first of these streetcars, Car 529, was completed and inauguration of the Silver Line began on August 27, 2011.〔 Restoring this car for use in the trolley system required over 3,000 volunteer hours and $850,000 in donations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News Releases )〕 Due to the limited amount of streetcars, initial service for the line was limited to weekends and holidays every 30 minutes between the hours of 10 am to 2 pm. On December 20, 2011, service was expanded to Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 2 pm as well as weekends and holidays from 11 am to 3:30 pm. It is expected that more service hours will be added upon the completion of additional streetcars.〔 For the first two weeks of the trolley's run, riders who boarded at the 12th & Imperial Transit Center received "commemorative tickets" to use for boarding the trolley.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silver Line (San Diego Trolley)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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