After numerous delays, Orange County began testing its long-awaited streetcars that will connect Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
The electric trains will run on the newly refurbished Pacific Electric line between the two cities.
“We’re excited,” said Johnny Dunning, chief operations officer for OC Transportation Authority. “We’re finally here. This is the first modern streetcar in Orange County, and it’s something exciting. We’re going to expand on our ordinary bus service. This project is going to connect to about eight or nine of our core routes. It’s going to offer a lot of folks in the core of our county acess to anywhere they want to go.”…