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Published Date: 12 June 2007
By DAVID STERRATT
THE "Don't Trash Our Trams" campaign in Edinburgh is right to say that a "reliable, integrated transport system is vital for the economic prosperity of the city". But there is a tried-and-tested alternative to trams that has been neglected so far in the debate - modern trolleybuses.
For those too young to remember them (the last one ran in Glasgow in 1967), trolleybuses are vehicles with rubber tyres that are powered by electricity obtained via "trolley poles" from overhead wires.

In the UK they replaced the first generation...



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Abel Magwitch,

12/06/2007 12:55:20

Vancouver has a highly efficient and widespread trolley bus system and there is no talk of scrapping it. I think there are also TBs in San Francisco.

The main argument against trolley buses has always been that they are inflexible i.e. dependent on the overhead wires. But as the writer says, an advanced battery pack would enable the trolley buses to make short diversions without using the wires.


 

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