Trolley Bus

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

We still have a few trolley buses here in Boston. Although we call them trackless trolleys.

Old passing new.

Comments

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

All the messy wires certainly detracts from the appeal of this form of transport. It makes the city scape rather ugly.

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

I don't know- I lived along the aforementioned "trackless trolley" lines for a few years, and generally find them charming in a "trolleys and their accoutrements are charming" kind of way. Now, what's inconvenient is the inability for those trolleys to pass each other so as to remedy bunching, so you end up waiting 30 minutes for a bus and then getting three all at once.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I know that SEPTA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPTA_Bus_Operations#Trackless_trolley_.28trolleybus.29), Philadelphia's mass-transit system, runs some trackless trolleys. Never knew what they were called before.

(Does anyone else think "SEPTA" is kind of a vomit-inducing name? It's just too close to "septic" for comfort. I know it stands for "Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority," but I really think they weren't trying hard enough when they named it.)