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.
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Given every city has busses, I would think focusing on the would be better. Much more likely to electrify busses than roll out new rail based transit.
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 🤔
Nice. Good job metro!
Good luck. Other cities signed on with Proterra and were left with non-working buses after the company went bankrupt.
Well, Solaris has a decade-long track record of success across Europe, so this might not be the worst idea.