"Marratxi" wrote in message ...
"Boltar" wrote in message
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Seems to me like some of the people involved in transport planning need to
look up the definition of "rapid" in the dictionary. Trolleybuses may be
many things but rapid isn't one of them.

B2003

What are your experiences which back up that statement ? The old London
trolleybuses were very quick indeed with extremely rapid acceleration and if
outright speed had been a factor in their design I don't see why they
shouldn't have been fast too.
Baz

I was thinking more about the fact that like ordinary buses they get stuck
in traffic. But talking about shear speed they may have good acceleration
but most of the the old ones topped out at about 40 or 50mph and would
probably have dewired before they got to that speed anyway.

B2003