{"id":695078,"date":"2010-03-18T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb77bdc970c"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:10:26","slug":"brand-boulevard-getting-long-awaited-public-trolley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695078","title":{"rendered":"Brand Boulevard getting long-awaited public trolley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/06\/americana_sign_2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/06\/americana_sign_2.jpg?w=780\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt; WIDTH: 269px; HEIGHT: 171px\" title=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/06\/americana_sign_2.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><span>A long-anticipated public trolley\u00a0along Brand Boulevard will start running next month, Caruso Affiliated officials announced this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The rubber-wheel trolley will run from the Nestle headquarters on North Brand to the Americana at Brand from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Rick Lemmo, Caruso\u2019s vice president of community relations, said Tuesday at a joint meeting of the City Council and Redevelopment Agency.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEverything we do, as all of the council members know, is promises made, promises kept,\u201d Lemmo told the Glendale News-Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/br><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/br>The trolley will be \u201cabsolutely free\u201d and have six stops as it makes its way down Brand so that all downtown retailers can benefit from its service, Lemmo added.<\/span><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p><span>Local residents and merchants have for years pushed for a trolley or tram service in the downtown area to move people from parking lots and venues along the city\u2019s main thoroughfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glendalenewspress.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/18\/business\/gnp-trolley031910.txt\"><span>Read the full story here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8212; Melaine Hicken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Photo: Los Angeles Times file<\/em><br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-anticipated public trolley\u00a0along Brand Boulevard will start running next month, Caruso Affiliated officials announced this week. The rubber-wheel trolley will run from the Nestle headquarters on North Brand to the Americana at Brand from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Rick Lemmo, Caruso\u2019s vice president of community relations, said Tuesday at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UOW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}