Re: Wellington NZ Trolleybyuses

[George Johansen <gjohansen@hotmail.com>]

Vancouver, Canada has just approved an order of 205 New Flyer 40 foot
low floor trolleys with options.  You can get the details by reading
the minutes of the June Board meeting found at the Translink web page.

Link is http://www.translink.bc.ca

George
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:21:36 +1200, David McLoughlin
<davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote:

>Alex Campbell wrote:
>> 
>> David McLoughlin wrote:
>> 
>> > Alex Campbell wrote:
>> >
>> > > Consultancy work is underway to look at what the overall trend is with
>> > > trolley bus
>> > > systems world wide to help determine the future of the Wellington system.
>> >
>> > Fortunately for this, if they genuinely look overseas as they did with
>> > the Steer Davies Gleave report of 1990/91, they will find that most
>> > cities with trolleybuses are now buying new fleets and in some cases
>> > expanding their fleets and route kms.
>> >
>> > San Francisco. Dayton. Athens. Vancouver. Arnhem. Esslingen. Solingen.
>> > Salzburg. Various French cities. Quito. Shanghai. Naples. And so on and
>> > so forth. But I don't see much of this reported in the Wellington media.
>> > I must try to counteract this  <g>.
>> 
>> Any information you can provide on this I will pass onto the consultants as I am
>> in contact with them from time to time.
>
>Apart from anything else there is Richard de'armond's trolleybus website
>which has a continuously updated list of new trolleybuses orders and
>news of developments in many places.
>
>http://www.members.home.com/dearmond/
>
>He also runs a mailing list that has frequent info on trolleybus
>developments.
>
>David McLoughlin
>Auckland New Zealand