The Hop leaves Cathedral Square in downtown Milwaukee on Friday (above) for its maiden voyage, while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (below) welcomes visitors to the kickoff event.

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Milwaukee officials announced Friday that the city's new streetcar service will start running on Nov. 2.

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Milwaukee residents are raising safety concerns about the city's new streetcar which will begin operations in November.

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A Milwaukee-area man has hired Hupy & Abraham to represent him in a lawsuit over an injury from an accident on Milwaukee streetcar’s track.

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Milwaukee Public Works Commissioner Ghassan Korban will retire at the end of August after three decades in city government, officials announced on Wednesday.

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A crowd gathers to watch as The Hop arrives in Milwaukee on a flatbed truck on Monday.

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Milwaukee officials announced on Wednesday that work on the city’s streetcar project would cause both the intersection of Clybourn and Milwaukee streets and a nearby interstate ramp to be closed starting early next week.

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Milwaukee streetcar construction crews are expected to finish track work over the St. Paul Avenue bridge early next week.

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Contractors were certainly busy in 2017. Here are some of themost notable projects that either wrapped up, made significant strides or got underway in the past 12 months.

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Ninety percent of the Milwaukee streetcar tracks have been put in place, thanks in part to favorable weather conditions in recent months, say officials involved with the 2.5-mile construction project.

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