On 15/08/2017 4:43 PM,mcloughlin.dj@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Former Wellington Regional Councillor Paul Bruce carries on the lonely battle against deaf ears to stop the imminent demise of Wellington's modern trolley bus system with an article in today's Dominion Post newspaper.

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> Reviewing overseas developments, he asks: "Does Wellington want to remembered as the only city to close down a trolleybus system after the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?"

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This really is a poor decision - right up there with Brisbane closing their tram system - probably the last large system in the world to go to buses (as against other systems that have upgraded to heavy rail).

Mal Rowe - in a world of politicians with short time frames