Poneke newsitems

• • Look mum, no poles! Wellington’s trolley buses now have batteries

    • 19 Feb 2010
    • Poneke
    • The photo above is of Designline trolley bus 363 about to enter the Mt Victoria Tunnel en route to Miramar, Route 2. Of course, there are no trolley wires through the Mt Vic tunnel. Route 2 runs through the wired Hataitai bus-only tunnel.
    • Submitted by tonytw1
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    • miramar
    • hataitai

    Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Look mum, no poles! Wellington’s trolley buses now have batteries

    • 19 Feb 2010
    • Poneke
    • BACK BY POPULAR REQUEST Believe it or not, out-of-Wellington readers have asked for more articles about the capital’s trolley buses.
    • Submitted by tonytw1
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• • Vale Wellington’s Volvo trolley buses

    • 16 Nov 2009
    • Poneke
    • Unheralded, and almost unnoticed, the last revenue trip of the last of Wellington’s Volvo trolley buses took place today.
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• • A belated and shamefully unremarked 60th birthday greeting to Wellington’s darkest secret, its trolley buses

    • 13 Aug 2009
    • Poneke
    • The 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin making the first Moon landing reminded me I’d completely overlooked another anniversary as close to my heart as that long ago great leap for mankind.
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• • Go Wellington gets three more old diesel bangers for the trolley routes

    • 21 Jul 2009
    • Poneke
    • Further evidence of the desire of all concerned to marginalise Wellington’s trolley buses is hardly needed, but wait, there is still more.
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• • Blunder over the wires means weekend trolley buses will not resume. Why am I not surprised?

    • 21 Jun 2009
    • Poneke
    • Weekend trolley bus operations will not resume, despite Wellington ratepayers and taxpayers paying $9 million a year to run these expensive buses seven days a week from first bus to last.
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• • Heat going out of sports centre issue — though fine print suggests mayor’s mind made up

    • 23 Feb 2009
    • Poneke
    • The indoor sports centre issue that led to friction between Wellington city council Andy Foster and his colleagues seems to be heading towards a solution of sorts.
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    ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Another day, some trolleys turn up

    • 23 Feb 2009
    • Poneke
    • After the droves of diesels of recent weeks, there were three trolley buses in a row at Karori Park at 7.
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    • karori

    Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Lack of trolleys due to “teething problems”

    • 19 Feb 2009
    • Poneke
    • Since my post this morning about the continuing lack of trolley buses on the wired routes, I’ve been told by a reliable source that Go Wellington is having “teething problems” with its new Designline trolleys and many are off the road.
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    • trolley-buses