Did anyone ride urban electric public transportation?

[Telecolor 3007]

But then how the trams remained?

[Josef]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

But then how the trams remained?

I guess the tram rails were so needed and common in the time before subway existed that there was no other possibility than leaving things like they were

[Telecolor 3007]

I don't remember dewirement to often in Romania. But maybe air suspension made a better work.
The thing with wires is a thing of taste. I don't hate them. I like them. I do hate the internet cables hung on the poles wheb they are too many.

[ppppenguin]

When I was a young kid in the late 1950s/eearly 1960s we still had trolleybuses in London. My local major junction was Golders Green Station. This photo I found online shows just a fraction of the overhaed wiring at the junction and bus station.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/3958006425

Apart fom the wires this view is remarkably similar today.

For a forest of overhead wiring this shot I took in Buenos Aires almost 2 years ago is pretty good. There's stuff elswehere that makes this look very modest. This one from Thailand looks fun: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/ta...vxanlmjdhq1dma

[Telecolor 3007]

That "forest" of cables can be found in Romania. Both Argentinian and Thai ones.

Probably double decker trolleybuses where more prone to dewirment. Sadly, no double decker trolleybus network remained, except for the ones in museums.

[Telecolor 3007]

Why the did abnaonded it?

[ppppenguin]

In London we're getting more electric buses. 2 of my local routes are now fully electric. In time I reckon the whole fleet will be electric. It's a good fit for battery electric vehicles: defined routes with relatively low daily mileage, lots of stop-start and heavy traffic, depots with charging facilities.

City delivery vehicles are increasingly electric too. Similar reasons. And London taxis, though not sure how that will work with the longer trips they do, such as to Heathrow airport.

[nasadowsk]

Those old Metra cars sucked, hard. The ones pulled by diesels were glacial, the electric ones were no better. The interiors sucked, the ride sucked, the crews sucked.

I spent a few days in Chicago back in '02. CTA was goo, Metra should just be replaced with something that, you know, actually works...