Re: Re: Sixty years of trolleybuses, Pilsen
  Dudley Horscroft

Tony, yes, but the photo you provided has the TB out in the open countryside, and I cannot recall seeing a habitation in the fields.  Definitely not a place for trams, unless from one dense CBD to a major also dense suburb.  Rather like the Glenelg tramway - CBD to seaside resort.

Regards and a Happy New  Year

Dudley

On 3/01/2022 12:16 am, TP wrote:
> Dudley, Pilsen also has a tram system. The Trolleybus system is only the second tier of the city's public transport. Pilsen has a population close to that of Townsville, about 180,000 but it's a major industrial city and, with the European pattern of high public transport use, it's not surprising that there's a intensely-used public transport system.

>

> Tony P

>

> On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 15:20:53 UTC+11transit...@... wrote:

>

> This is the sort of populated area suited to trolleybuses.  Trams

> for cities where there are large numbers of people.

>

> Regards

>

> Dudley

>

> On 1/01/2022 11:26 am, TP wrote:

>> The present -  a rather evocative photo of a 27Tr on Line 11,

>> Pilsen - except that there's no "Line" on this stretch.

>>

>> Tony P

>>

>> On Saturday, 1 January 2022 at 11:15:22 UTC+11 TP wrote:

>>

>> An historical lineup in chronological order of sixty years of

>> trolleybuses serving Pilsen, 1940-2020, in front of a

>> municipal house and taken from the main railway station. The

>> overhead wires in this historical city don't appear to be the

>> problem that is made of them elsewhere. I don't recall

>> noticing them except at junctions and crossings where they

>> are rather untidy,  but Pilsen is now buying in-motion

>> charging trolleybuses that no longer need a complete array of

>> wires and have considerable range off-wire.

>>

>> Over 14,000 trolleybuses have been manufactured at Škoda

>> Pilsen and exported around the world, the second largest

>> trolleybus manufacturer in the world after one in USSR, now

>> defunct, so now the largest in Europe. On that note, the

>> formerly largest trolleybus system in the world, in Moscow,

>> has recently been closed and replaced by a fleet of

>> battery-electric buses. We'll see how that goes. The

>> performance metrics of a modern trolleybus are superior to

>> those of a battery (or fuel cell) electric bus, notably in

>> respect of virtual 24 hour availability and lower weight,

>> hence greater passenger capacity and lower power consumption.

>> The transport world is afflicted by an irrational madness today.

>>

>> Tony P

>>

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