Trolley Ribbon Cutting 5 21 24

hi good morning um on behalf of the city of Fall River and Viva Fall River I would like to thank you for joining us today as we unveil an exciting new addition to the city of Fall River our new City Trolley this initiative is more than just a means of transportation it represents a new way for both residents and visitors to experience the unique charm and Rich history of our city the

trolley will serve as a gateway to fall River's neighborhoods and attractions offering a seamless and informative Journey through our Vibrant Community launching next week our tourism website will feature detailed insights not only about current attractions but we'll also delve into our City's storied past and cultural heritage providing virtual tour experiences that will make you feel like

you have a guide with you creating this project has been a deeply enlightening process and I'm eager to share these experiences with you all the trolley will be an invaluable resource for visitors helping them to navigate our city landmarks and learn about our history for our residents though it offers a fresh perspective connecting them with parts of Fall River that they may not have seen before beyond our

regular weekend visitor Loop which will run on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 to 4:00 which is and it's also a 12 stop Loop we are developing specialized tours that promise more interactive experiences these tours will introduce residents and visitors alike to Hidden gems such as the bio reserve a natural treasure right here in our city I'm especially thrilled to announce that

this Saturday I'll be taking my daughter on her first Fall River trolley ride to the bio Reserve VE for a special event funded by a grant from the Massachusetts office of outdoor recreation this event will be presented by the city of Fall River in participation and partnership with mass audabon I invite all of you to join the wings on the wapa bird watching experience where residents will be among

the first to ride the new trolley to this exciting event for more details please visit the city's Facebook page or Viva fall river.com thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly to bring this project to life I look forward to seeing our community come together to explore and enjoy all that Fall River has to offer through this wonderful new trolley service and of course none of this would have been

possible without the support of the mayor of the city of Fall River who I'm very proud to introduce the honorable mayor Paul Coogan uh I I I want to give a few acknowledgements before I say anything about the trolley uh and I'm going to ask her to come up and say a couple of words uh state representative uh Carol Fiola along with one of the representatives of representative schmidtz here representative and Senator

Rodricks uh we we bought this with a travel and tourism Grant from the state of Massachusetts that uh our our hardw working representative shepher through and got the Fall River so I want to let uh representative Fiola make a few statements before we get into the regular thank you mayor thank you Patty uh this is an exciting day I really came uh like you are watching to learn more

about uh the operational hours of the trolley because it is really a wonderful day for Fall River never say there's nothing happening in Fall River again I really uh have to say I'm just uh overwhelmed with pride to see the work that is being done by the mayor by Viva by all the organizations um I I just saw the summer guide that the city of Fall River put together uh that is extensive that has

every date of activity happening Viva Fall River uh promoting all kind of exciting and interesting events that are good for not only our residents but for our visitors and so this is the very launch even though our Route 79 project is still in dirt piles this is the launch of uh an exciting uh beginning to our tourism and travel um Market here in Fall River I'm proud to play a tiny role

in this and excited to as a resident of Fall River uh to share the word and to take advantage of all these great events so thank you mayor thank you Patty and thank you state representative Fiola but I there are a few other people that need uh thanking uh Al Aliva the director of City operations his crew at both facilities and DCM they tackled this job when we first rolled this up

from Delaware um and they thought we could do it in house and they obviously the results speak for themselves it looks absolutely great we hope everybody takes a turn to get on it um those guys work tirelessly on weekends and with the match from the grant we were able to to make sure everybody got paid for their hard effort and that's what it's about the person that actually found the

trolley in Delaware was our director of Grants Jasmine Pereira uh she works right down the hall for me and she knows I'm involved in everything so she'd walk down with a website how about this one no how about this one no don't like that one how about this one finally she brought me this one and I said that one looks good we ended up sending one of our mechanics from the fire department

down to do an evaluation of it we bought it uh it's a used trolley that's been spruced and brought back to life by Al alera and his crew and it's going to do a lot of good things for the city it's for rent it's going to do a loop and people can use it for their events to get around the city of Fall River we want people to be exposed it's going to

be a different way to ride and we want people to use it it's very important part of our entire tourism scheme I think later in the week we'll be doing another press conference on our water taxi which should be coming to fruition very very quickly so we're going to have a different combination things going on in the city of Fall River Rock the Dock is right here on the 4th of July Take Me

to the River from Narrows is right here I'm not sure of the date that's coming up and all of our fourth of July celebrations are going to be down on this Waterfront Rock to the dock is June 1 any questions for me anybody got any questions thees I think it's $5 we settled on for a flat rate you can do the whole 10 stop Loop and get off and

we'll pick you back up on the next one through and children under 12 free and children under 12 free thank you Pat yeah can I just ask what the what the loop is absolutely so I hope I can remember all of them but there are 12 stops it starts at the um right across the street from the Maritime Museum the next stop is Columbia Street the one after that is

uh St ANS and I'm just naming them it's not necessarily we're not dropping them off like right at that area but it's just to give you a familiarity after that would be St Mary's the uh St Mary's Lizzie bordon area um after that is uh Troy Street which is kind of an introduction to the lower Highland then we have the Little Theater Fire Barn which covers the historic Highlands uh the next hop after that is oako

Cemetery Lizzy bordon grave which is a super popular tourist attraction um from there it goes to portugalia Marketplace which is obviously one of our our great assets uh after that it goes to the Purchase Street dining District where there's a lot of new things happening uh from there it takes a right on North Main goes to the children's museum for that whole area and the the the Railroad

Museum of course then it goes straight to Bicentennial park where you have you know over six uh War memorials to um View and then the last stop on the loop is the Lafayette dery House which I'm really happy that we were able to uh make that happen and then it goes back and does it all over again so the loop should uh theoretically take about an hour and what's the time frame again

time day when it start sure 9: to 4 on Saturdays and Sundays and that you know of course if there is a rental because we do hope that this is you know a a great Revenue generator then we would put that on um there's a there's a ticketing system there's a Tracker a real-time tracker so you'll be able to know when it's coming we're not just going to have people like waiting at

stops um there's been a lot of thought and a lot of research that went into this so um the you'll be able we'll we'll give people plenty of notice ahead of time if it's not going to be running but we hope that you know it's this is just a pilot season and then hopefully to add more more days as time goes on anything else guys well thank you I hope everybody takes a walk through the

trolley it's going to be very special and again if you want to turn your camera is that way that's the crew that put this together and I really appreciate their efforts and that young lady with the camera right there is the one that actually found the trolley so she got an extra dollar in her check this month so she's all excited thank you guys ribon oh yeah we're going to cut the ribbon now right

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