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Is there a possibilty of a new trolley bus system in any North American city?
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<p> Dayton OH and Seattle WA are the only metro areas that have installed or rebuilt there trolley buses lines. Dayton is rebuilding and buying new buses and seattle uses theres in a tunnel underground. Phili had taken there system down in the last 2 years and hamilton and toronto in the last 10. Trolleybuses however are common sights in european citys as adjucts to there extensive light rail system.</p><p>A number have been proposed in bus rapid transit sceams but planners have gone with hybrid buses instead. hybrid being Natrual gas or diesal electric power. The problem that I see with hybrids is that they still use carbon based fuel instead of hydro or nuke. Trolleybuses have a tendacy to last almost as long as trolley cars. Dayton Oh has had some buses that are 40 years old and running just fine.</p><p>Internal combustion engines have a limted shelf life and Iimagine we will discover that the complicated electronics in gas/electric hybrids will corrode over time in salt and other elements.</p><p>What I am proposing here is that trolley buses have these uses</p><p>1.Short loop runs in downtown areas or in a large university campus to reduce polution particaly Deisal Partical polution or DPP.</p><p>2. Long inner city runs that have a bus every 10- 15 min or crosstown runs that service is frequent enough to justify the cost of catanary. </p><p> 3.Bus rapid transit-electrct buses reduce noise along right of way</p><p>4.Downtown portions of runs-Hybrid buses would have trolley poles that would go up in the city and go down in the suburbs. The layout of highrise office buildings in places like Pittsburgh and LA traps partical polution in the canyons that are created by high-rises</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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