Phil Yeh recorded the final ride of the Hudson Trolley on Monday, February 28, including footage of veteran trolley driver Mike Pizza telling anecdotes about his decades in service on the route that started back in 1981. According to Jamie Larson of the Register-Star, the trolley’s schedule was replaced with a redesigned loop and four new stops along the Columbia County Transport Hudson-Greenport line in an attempt to save Hudson more than $100,000 a year, according to an estimate from Mayor Richard Scalera submitted at the end of 2010. Four new bus stops will be located at Columbia Memorial Hospital, the Hudson high school, the Department of Social Services and the Crosswinds housing complex. All of the existing stops on the trolley route will remain. The only other substantive change is that the routes will now begin at Crosswinds instead of the Stewart’s Shop at the intersection of Route 9 and Green Street. In addition to the new stops there will also be two new early morning loops along the route, starting at 6:45 a.m. and 7:55 a.m. Those loops will start later this week. For the full schedule, click here...