London Banter - View Single Post - Conductors axed from NB4L/New Routemaster/Boris Bus

[email protected] · July 12th 16, 09:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:35:21 +0100
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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.

There will always be nimbys but when the positives far outweigh the negatives
of the proposal they should just be told to sod off. If Oxford street for
example had buses running on the wires a large part of its pollution issues
would be sorted in one go.

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Spud