BOWLING GREEN, Ky.-The lengthy awaited trolley automotive has lastly arrived in Bowling Inexperienced and goes to be taking individuals on excursions across the metropolis together with stopping at some historic locations. Information 40 goes to take you alongside the journey!
The trolley, 4 years within the making, will decide individuals up on the Nationwide Corvette Museum after which cease on the Historic Railpark & Practice Museum.
It then begins its journey into downtown, going previous the Bowling Inexperienced Ballpark and looping round Fountain Sq. Park.
“Bowling Inexperienced’s historical past is downtown. It’s not on Scottsville Highway, it’s not on Campbell Lane, it’s downtown. So we need to concentrate on the downtown space as a result of that’s the place our historical past is,” stated trolley organizer Bobby Rabold.
Then we head to the campus of Western Kentucky College.
“The place would Bowling Inexperienced be with out Western Kentucky College?” stated Rabold.
Workers say it was important to incorporate the faculty, because it drives individuals to our neighborhood.
“It’s a terrific alternative to speak in regards to the college. Three stops on campus. I hope we now have younger people who find themselves contemplating coming to varsity in Bowling Inexperienced but additionally it’s an opportunity to speak in regards to the college’s historical past. And in addition an opportunity to speak about our athletic success in addition to pupil actions,” stated WKU President Timothy Caboni.
The trolley will depart campus and head again in the direction of the center of downtown, passing Circus Sq. Park. Then head again to the Nationwide Corvette Museum.
“We don’t need people to simply go hop off the interstate, stick with us then depart, we wish them to come back in and be taught extra about our nice little metropolis and all of the historical past that exists right here, and the points of interest that exist right here within the metropolis,” stated NCM CEO Sharon Brawner.
Rabold has been adamant about getting the trolley in Bowling Inexperienced. And his ardour could be generational…coming from his grandfather.
“I’ve {a photograph} of him, on the trolley carrying his straw hat. And this was taken a couple of 100, in all probability 108 years in the past. I’ve his precise hat that he had on the trolley,” stated Rabold.
Excursions to the general public begin in spring.
