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Transportation leaders are celebrating this morning, Nov. 30, the groundbreaking of Orange County’s first modern streetcar and an agreement with the federal government for another $149 million in funding.
The OC Streetcar, expected to be running in 2021, will run 4.1 miles from Santa Ana’s train station to the transit station in Garden Grove, with stops near government buildings, shopping districts and residential hubs.
Federal Transit Administration Acting Administrator K. Jane Williams, the nation’s top transit official, was at today’s ceremony to sign the agreement for additional federal funding.
The streetcar system is set to cost $408 million to build, of which $217 million is coming from the federal government. The project also has state funding help.
The streetcar is the first project in Orange County to get more than half of its funding from non-local sources, Orange County Transportation Authority spokesman Eric Carpenter said.
“That’s one thing we’ve always promised with Measure M (OC’s transportation sales tax) is to try to leverage local dollars, and we think this project does exactly that,” Carpenter said.
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