The Blue Water Area Transit will unveil a sculpture on Friday, December 14, at 12:30 p.m. The sculpture celebrates the many milestones of local transit innovation and recognizes William Pitt Edison as the father of local public transit. William Pitt is the oldest brother of world-renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Both brothers started out serving passengers on the Grand Trunk Railroad train to Detroit. William saw a new need for a train line to serve Port Huron residents with a horse-pulled trolley. William soon replaced the trolley with horse-pulled streetcars guided by rails along several local routes. He left the public transit industry in 1883, but his legacy of innovation continued. The powder-coated fabricated aluminum sculpture measures 16 by 7.5 feet. The sculpture was created by a local artist Mino Duffy Kramer.
