Re: Wellington update
  Tony Galloway


> On 18 Oct 2017, at 2:01 pm,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> A side benefit of this method, incidentally, is that it only involves unobtrusive, straight sections of wire and removes the need for the ugly tangles of junctions and turnouts which are the biggest obstacle to promoting the use of trolleybuses in cities.


I reckon pandering to the hand-wringers who bitch and whine about practical and efficient OHW, whether for trams or TBs, is where the problem starts, with the shills and salesmen all standing by with “ready made solutions” and orders waiting to be signed. This is what has led to the APS farce in Sydney and this absurd debacle in Wellington.

If places as diverse as San Francisco and Zurich can live with a bit of copper hanging in the air it can’t be a real problem - looking at wires beats breathing diesel exhaust.

Tony G