Re: Trolleybus in Hong Kong

[Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Hubert wrote:
> 
> The latest news reported that Citybus planned to introduce it somewhere near
> southern part of HK Island (ie South end of Aberdeen Tunnel), perhaps near Ocean
> Park :-)

Why there, though, Hubert? The buses to Aberdeen and Ocean Park are
mostly expresses from Central. Do you mean they plan to wire the # 70
through the tunnel? Or the #73 local from Aberdeen to Ocean Park?  Yet
why would anyone introduce a local trolleybus at the outlying end of the
DD bus routes from Central to Aberdeen? Though the patronage is high
enough out there, especially to Ocean Park on weekends, it is hardly
anything like the huge seven-day patronage on the routes from TST up to
Yau Ma Tei or Mong Kok and the like which is what the proposal I saw was
for.

Trolleybuses cost a lot of money to install because of the cost of the
overhead wire and substations and surely there are far more worthwhile
places to run them than a local line from Aberdeen to Ocean Park?

Not doubting you, just very interested. 

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand