Louisville Railway Company
Market and Western PKY
Help Restore Louisville's Trolleys
The new Louisville Railway Company was formed as a non profit in 2014 to develop a pratical approach to restore Streetcar services to Metro Louisville in the near future Realising federal dollars are a competive process we feel any fixed guideway transit must be low in cost to gain support.
We have selected The McKinney Avenue Trolley in Dallas Texas as a model which to begin M.A.T.A as of today is the cheapest new start street railway system in the United States a total cost of 5,000,000.00 in 1983.
Louisville's Burried Rails
We are lucky in Louisville to have much of our former streetcar network burried under a small layer of asphalt on many routes tracks remain on Market Street, Portland Avenue, 18th Street just to mention a few. Is it possible to use the old streetcar rails which still lie under the asphalt on many city streets? An A.P.T.A study says, “MATA experience in Dallas indicates that revival of abandoned track in-place can be done at 10 percent of the cost of new track on a new route.” By exposing these rails for resuse we can reactivate Streetcar and or Light Rail very economicaly and our existing rail can be used towards the local match with the Federal Transit Administration
