On 2016\07\12 10:35, wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:28:10 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:


miserable failure too. Hopefully in 10 years or so they'll be sold on and
some standard buses - whether hybrid or pure electric who knows - will be
bought instead for considerably less.

On that subject I'm not entirely sure why successive mayors have never even
considered trolley buses, at least in part like in Boston where its electric
part of the way and a diesel engine takes over where the wires stop. Seems to
me it would be a perfect solution for central london.

Central London in times past resisted overhead wiring on aesthetic
grounds and there could well be objections to them now though at least
it can be argued that modern overhead can be engineered with modern
materials and looks a lot less intrusive than the big ceramic
insulators and heavy Ohio Brass* components of the former trolley bus
network.

* Even the catalog of forty years ago looks old fashioned then.
http://www.impulsenc.com/pdf/catalog...s_products.pdf

Does anyone know how the trial of wireless charging on the route 69 is
coming along?