Trolley Buses related newsitems

• • The vanishing trolley buses: cheaper to keep them than scrap them

    • 18 Dec 2015
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Detailed independent analysis by an experienced Wellington engineer has provided financial evidence which shows that retaining the city’s trolley buses would be more economical than scrapping them, as the Greater Wellington Regional Council is intending.
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• • NZ Bus disappointed with GWRC trolley buses decision

    • 27 Jun 2014
    • Go Wellington
    • NZ Bus is disappointed with today’s decision by Greater Wellington Regional Council to phase out trolley bus services in 2017. NZ Bus Chief Executive Zane Fulljames says that the Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP) has made steps in the right direction to improving Wellington’s public transport network but time will tell if the Council has got the trolley decision right.
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    All Wired Up but Going Nowhere Fast

    • 27 Sep 2010
    • Keith Johnson
    • I have been wittering on the while about the constant de-wiring of trolley buses just down from our house at the Reef Street turning circle on the No 1 Route from the Railway Station to Island Bay.
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Capital’s Buses Go Battery Power

    • 31 Aug 2010
    • Auckland Trains
    • Wellington’s inner city electric buses will have to run on battery power for over 2 months – with people stationed around the city employed to just take the bus poles up and down.
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    Still Off its Trolley

    • 28 Jul 2010
    • Keith Johnson
    • I have been out an about 'on the stump' campaigning and will splice in a few local issues that are coming up in conversations with voters.First, those clanking Trolley Buses are becoming even more unreliable as they constantly de-wire.
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 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.
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    Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 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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• • 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, 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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• • On the Buses

    • 10 Jan 2009
    • Eye of the Fish
    • While I’ve been quite impressed by the new trolley buses in Wellington, one gleaming in its paua-shell colour-scheme as it slides silently through the city, I still have a hankering for a double-decker, which are fairly common throughout England, and of which we seem to have one roaming solo in the streets of Wellington.
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• • Life in the City

    • 16 Apr 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I know we all love trolley buses (and can't wait for the flash new three-axle jobbies to start ripping it up along Kent Terrace) but this must have been horrendous to be involved in at 5.15 yesterday afternoon. And deeply amusing for those of NOT involved, of course.
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• • Trolley buses, how do they do it?

    • 2 Nov 2007
    • The Wellingtonista
    • How do trolley buses get their poles to go right or left when they come to a junction? Leave a comment to tell me how ...
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• • Re-wired

    • 26 Jun 2006
    • On Saturday, the Dominion Post reported that the regional council and Land Transport NZ had got their act together and sorted out a funding agreement to keep the trolleys running.
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• • Back on track: rants and raves

    • 22 Jun 2006
    • WellUrban
    • There's a lot going on regarding transport at the moment. First of all, if you believe that shutting down the trolley buses is a bad idea, then there's a public meeting at 3pm this Sunday to discuss what to do about it. Where? At the Aro Valley Community Hall, of course.
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    Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Trolleyed

    • 15 May 2006
    • WellUrban
    • I really haven't had the time or inside information to look into who's right and wrong in the trolley bus funding spat. I can't tell whether there are genuine disagreements over costings, whether it's a petty squabble over who does what, or whether the various parties are just bluffing in an attempt to force someone else to pay.
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• • Survey on $15 million trolley bus cost

    • 8 Dec 2005
    • Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay, Rongotai Progressive (Residents) Association
    • There is potential for ratepayers to foot the $15 million bill (in addition to the current $4million annual subsidy over diesel buses), so we would like to get your opinion on this subject. Wellington's trolley buses future is uncertain as lines company Vector and Stagecoach battle over an $15 million upgrade of "potentially unsafe" power substations.
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• • Accident won't halt trolley buses

    • 4 Dec 2000
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• • The Trolley Bus Festival

    • 1 Apr 1999
    • April 1999 marked the 50th anniversary of the modern trolley bus operation in Wellington. To celebrate this The Omnibus Society with help from the Wellington City Council and Stagecoach organised a four day festival from March 25 - March 28.
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