Milwaukee’s downtown streetcar system will be operated by Lombard, Illinois-based Transdev Services Inc. under a contract valued at about $3.6 million a year.
Transdev is among five companies that competed to operate the downtown streetcar through a “very competitive” request for proposals, according to a Tuesday letter from Ghassan Korban, Milwaukee commissioner of Public Works. Transdev, based in Lombard, Ill., operates streetcars in Detroit, New Orleans and Cincinnati, and about 20 other…