sweek wrote:
But a Trolleybus wouldn't solve any traffic problems, and wouldn't be
any faster than the buses there are now along Uxbridge Road - which I
thought was the main incentive for the tram. I use the route all the
time and traffic is really bad.In the end, trams are narrower than
buses so a right of way tramway would be easier to implement.
And I've been looking through those pictures and can't see any example
at all, of a trolleybus and its wiring that does not look ugly. I also
haven't seen much modern implementation of these things. If any at
all, really. Are there any cities that have recently constructed a
trolleybus network? The only example I can find is the Silver Line in
Boston, which all Bostonians I've talked with seem to hate.
Yes, 27 August 2003 a trolleybus route opened in the town Landskrona in
southern Sweden. The reason it was built was that a new railway station
was built out of the town centre and a frequent shuttle transport
solution was needed between the town centre and the new station.
There is not much information, especially not in English, on-line about
this trolleybus route
AFAIK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landskrona
Every now and then I seem to run into a few enthousiasts about the
whole thing, but I haven't seen any serious planning for a system.
Wikipedia doesn't help much, either.
There were a discussion at the Swedish Tramway Society discussion forum
about the Landskrona trolleybus project and much of the discussion lead
to the conclusion that trolleybuses are not an alternative to trams,
they are just ordinary buses with the same capacity limitations as
ordinary buses. If there is demand for trams to replace an overcrowded
bus route or to releive congestion on street then there is no need to
even consider trolleybuses.
For those of you who read scandinavian languages, that discussion is
he
http://www.ss.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2492
And I still think they're just very ugly. Pollution is a problem
obviously, but I hope we can find a nicer way around it than this.
Ugly or not, here are some pictures:
http://www.bussfoto.com/Bildgalleri/...a_060512a.html
http://www.bussfoto.com/Bildgalleri/...a_060512c.html
http://www.bussfoto.com/Bildgalleri/...a_060512c.html
On most streets I would say many people don't even notice the overhead
wires. But there are some parts of the route where the road look has
changed considerably.
http://www.bussfoto.com/Bildgalleri/...a_060512e.html
And finally some very fresh pictures from one of the enthusiasts in a
snowy Landskrona:
http://upload6.postimage.org/367408/photo_hosting.html
http://upload6.postimage.org/367578/photo_hosting.html
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