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I wish we would spend that on maintenance and expansion of the electric trolleybuses. Makes more economic sense in comparison to electric battery electric buses. Or spend more on conventional buses and staff, since private car usage is far more environmentally damaging than a diesel bus fleet.
It's just not viable, there's literally only a single company that makes the equipment for the overhead wire system anymore and it's monstrously expensive. Or at least that's what I was told while I was working there by the mechanics when I would talk to them. And from what I was hearing it was sounding like the company that was doing it doesn't want to do it anymore so I wouldn't be surprised if the goal is to drop the overhead wire trolleys eventually
There’s got to be a reliable equipment manufacturer out there with San Francisco’s trolly bus and cable car network being the largest in the us 🤔