A San Diego neighborhood has introduced a trolley to its streets to ease parking in the area.
Hillcrest launched its free trolley today that will run from 6-10 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Residents and community leaders said they hope to ease parking problems in the area.
“You figure people that are riding the trolley -- that's taking a car off the street, potentially -- and that's freeing up a parking space,” said Benjamin Verdugo with Uptown Community Parking District. “So more people that know about this, that ride the trolley [and] use other means of transportation besides their automobile, it's a good thing for Hillcrest.”
The free trolley will run on University and Washington avenues from First Avenue to Normal Street.
The group Park Hillcrest also launched a campaign for visitors to find parking online using their website. The site will show where there are metered spaces throughout the area.
Uptown Community Parking District gets a percentage money from the meters it and the city gets a percentage, so it can pay for projects like this.
