The closure of Wellington's trolleybus system was a environmental disaster. When the last trolleybus enter the depot at 11.30pm on 31 October 2017 the power was switched off to all 9 trolleybus routes and replaced by diesel buses for the introduction of the so called multi hub rapid bus network that has become a operational and economic disaster.
@@mayormc - It was a totally stupid decision made by certain local government politicians who got sucked into the hype of overseas transport experts. Wellington is a compact city that has a hilly topography which is ideal for trolleybus operations but the experts said diesel and eventually battery buses are the way to go, despite battery bus trails over the years have ended in failure. 6 of the trolley bus routes could have easily been used in the new rapid bus network.
at least if it's not either electric or battery, they could have used something other than diesel :/ or just don't kill the trolleybus stupid decision indeed
@@youcanpunchmeintheface - I agree like with most of the city and regional rate payers who help to fund the Wellington city and Wellington region's bus, rail and ferry services, it was a stupid decision. Reducing the diesel bus fleet with battery buses is a a good move. In Auckland they are trialing a hydrogen/electric bus and I would like to see how that bus would handle Wellington city's hilly routes.
Wouldn’t a trolley bus system be perfect for a BRT route, you have a high concentration of large buses running on a single corridor. Making all those busses run on electric power lines would be easier than battery since they wouldn’t need to recharge at a station every time.
My dad has a story about trying to take the green line from Forest Hills after they had built a platform there in the hopes that trains would run there again. He waited for a really long time until a homeless man told him that "he would be waiting a long time", and he noticed the signs about the "temporary" closure. I think he took the orange line home.
The worst individually is the closure of the coastal line in Liguria, Italy. Very bad for tourism and three cities are totally without a rail link. They did construct a new line but inland and all through tunnels so you don't see anything, and as mentioned, three cities are totally without a rail link. A crime in one of the world's most famous tourist areas. They could have kept the old line for local trains and the new line for expresses.
I don't know where you took that Moscow monorail no longer exists, Tim. They do consider closing it, due to it being wildly inefficient, but it still works, for now.
@@timosha21 So then, it's not gone yet (even though it's good riddance, if they replace it with the planned tram line from Ostankino to Dmitrovskaya). Also it cannot be shortened, literally, there's no way to rotate the trains other than on the end stations and nobody in their right mind would build new loop for the system which is on the brink of complete uselessness as is.
@@mihan2d It would be cool if they could at least reuse some of the elevated track infrastructure for a light rail line, but it really needs to be replaced with a proper fast metro line. One of the worst things about modern Russia is how deadly its cities have become due to the emphasis on driving (and poor driving at that). It's like they decided to copy one of the worst things about the USA and then took it even further.
Great collection, well traveled 😁 I rode the Sydney monorail back in the 90's and was horrified to find it ended in 2013, but that's monorail's for ya!
U can come and film the last operational tram of India. It is kolkata tram which is still running in old kolkata side. It may get closed in few years due to rapid expansion of kolkata metro and monorails in the city. It is one of the most iconic and historic trams of south asia which is still in existence.
Some of the trolley buses and trams really looked like they were on their last legs - sad to see such systems run into the ground. I miss the tram systems in our smaller regional cities in Victoria - all gone decades ago...except for a tourist operation. On the flip side, trams making a comeback in big cities like Sydney and Gold Coast.
I once rode the short maglev line (M-Bahn) in West Berlin from Gleisdreieck to Kemperplatz, build along an underground line which was discontinued due to the Berlin Wall. After the reunification this maglev was closed and deconstructed in 1991 for putting the underground back into service again. Another discontinued transit system was the Vienna Stadtbahn, a light rail service with vintage tramway cars and left hand traffic which has been turned completely into a modern underground railway system by 1989.
I miss every tramway system that has been closed since the 1950ies as a sacrifice to the ideology of the car friendly city, especially those which have been well maintained and with a lot of tracks in lightrail standards. But I am thankful for every system that has been reintroduced in about 100 cities, and sometimes their suburbs, too.
For me, the most recent closure of the mean of transport are two shortlived trolleybus systems in Słupsk (opened 1985 and closed 1999) and Dębica (existed for two years between 1988 and 1990) and Poznań Fast Tram (in fact, the latter one wasn't removed forever, but it's on renovation since 2021/2022?, althrough it was opened in 1997).
Sad to see these systems gone, I miss trams in Trieste-Opicina. I don't remember that much but I was in 2015-2016. Tram temporarily closed beacause of 2 trams crashing. the trams were fixed in 2017 but it costed 3M Euros to reopen. System could open in february 2020 but I would say that they still didn't open beacuse of COVID-19 pandemic.
Moscow monorail was built by Intamin, a roller coaster manufacturer. Intamin monorails are more suitable for amusement park, but i don't understand why it was choosen for this system and also for the brand new Bologna Marconi Express
Better get to Pittsburgh before it's too late. They just built and opened a $0.5 billion Light Rail tunnel under one of the rivers a few years ago and now, on their website, they are claiming high maintenance costs forcing them to consider abandoning a major portion of the same Light Rail system. The "Library" line, in service for over 100 years (previously a trolley line), to be taken out of service and the valuable private right-of-way abandoned.
Pittsburgh's so called subway included a branch to Pennsylvania Station used by all of 4 Amtrak trains a day. Only a couple trips before it closed entirely. If they got federal funding for the line under the river, then close it before so many years go by, they have to repay that funding.
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 Nobody's going to repay any funding and they all know it. At one time the commitment to expanding Light Rail was such that the Penn Station spur was planned to be an extension up the Allegheny Valley with its own tunnel under the river. Plus the tunnel that was actually built was to extend Light Rail up the Ohio Valley and eventually to the airport. Burned by every politician at the city, state and federal level for cost overruns, the transit authority has reversed course, looking to dismantle and eventually close the entire Light Rail system they spent over $3 billion to build. Nobody wants to be associated with Light Rail.
"@joe stewart" ... They haven't understood the ongoing initiative "RE-CONNECTING AMERICA", at all. On the other hand, it is a phenomenon also in other cities, to raise these systems artificial more expensive (so that some can fill their pockets) and then wondering, that there's trouble ahead. Those responsibles do not even understand, that they are sawing off the branch, on which they are sitting themselves. In particular the Lightrail System enables cost-effective handling, because expensive tunnel sections can be limited to the bare minimum. For the price of 1 kilometer Subway, 40 kilometers of modern Lightrail Line can be built above ground in Germany ... with the "right-of-way" and with priority signalling at all traffic lights and junctions, underway. What about "Shannon Loop" ?
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 ... It doesn't get any more stupid ! Pittsburgh was one of the very few remaining classic Streetcar Systems within the United States. It survived the corruption of the automobile lobby and the philosophy of the "car-friendly city" for decades, until the upgrade to a Lightrail System came in the 80s. And now, of all times, in the face of climate change and the political U-turn in transport policy, where rail based transportation is celebrating a revival around the world, where car traffic is more and more banned downtown and city centers are being revitalized ... now all of this is to be reversed in Pittsburgh ? It has to be said clearly, that this is not a solution, but a disinvestment. Backwards instead of forwards ! However, it is not the transportation system itself to blame, but the dilettantes who are responsible for planning, construction and operation in Pittsburgh. That's why they dont't want to be associated with LRT anymore, so as not to be reminded of the shame about their own ineptitude and their mistakes, what has undermined the success of LRT.
Boston's trolleybus system will soon join this list, bringing the total number of trolleybus systems in the US to just four. As of May 2022 the Cambridge trolleybus routes have been converted to diesel, and the dual mode buses in the Silver Line will be replaced in the coming months with extended range hybrid buses. This also marks the end of dual mode buses in North America :(
The double articulated buses(from number 9) still rocking the streets in Utrecht(The Netherlands). Same manufacturer even. So what is lost in one city, is still aviable an other ;)
Wellington's closure was pretty much forced out of necessity. The only trolley bus manufacturer in Oceania went bankrupt due to bad business deals, Go Metro couldn't get any spare parts without sacrificing their own buses for them. Importing them from China was going to be too expensive.
@@PsychicLord Yes, they potentially could have - but with no experience in doing so how good was the quality going to be? And how much was it going to cost? Too much. The novelty of trolley buses is cool, but Wellington transport isn't a tourist venture that draws lots of money, it's a necessary public transport system. It just wasn't going to be viable. They even tried doing a trolley to electric battery conversion since the bus bodies were in great condition, and even that was too expensive to sustain.
@@KevinFields777 there are still manufacturers of new, modern trolley busses so why would it have not been cheaper to import new trolley buses instead of buying diesel buses to run for a few years while the charging infrastructure for battery buses is being built out and then buying battery busses
Actually, there is information about the resurrection of the tram in Tver. According to the plans, this will happen already at the second stage of the implementation of the transport reform. I think this is a kind of positive news, after all.
The Minnesota Zoo Skyrail Monorail that opening with the zoo in 1979 the Skyrail system closed permanently in 2013 and the cars where sold off to be used as cabin in Wisconsin.
The actual closure of the Almaty tramway was very sudden. My friend was coming to visit me and was waiting for a tram when an old lady saw him and told him the system had closed forever the previous day!
An additional trackless trolley system you might want to add to the list is Boston. According to You Tuber Chicago Transit, trackless trolley routes in Cambridge (located near Harvard University) have made their last runs earlier this year and have since converted to bus operations. Other transit services (3 subway lines, 5 trolley lines [including two recently expanded trolley services to nearby Somerville] and a whole host of commuter rail lines still exist as of June 2022.
The Boston Silver Line SL1, SL2, and SL3 services. Currently hybrid trackless trolleys / diesel busses, the MBTA is slated to replace them all with diesel busses from what I hear. Ditto for the Watertown and West and North Cambridge trackless trolleys ☹️
Denver, Colorado had very unique busses running down the main shopping strip downtown (16th St. Mall). Known as the "Free Mall Ride" the route featured very iconic TransTeq EcoMark shuttle busses custom-made for the route. In 2015 the shuttles were swapped out for another ascetically unconventional bus, the DesignLine EcoSaver IV (looks almost exactly like the Wellington, NZ busses in the video). Sadly in 2020, the busses were once again traded in, this time for the BYD K10MR, a more modern and less unique looking bus in my opinion.
Detroit had a trolley that opened in 1976 as part of the US bicentennial. It officially closed in 2003 but I never remember it operating most times. Hard to find pictures online but the book Detroit's Streetcar Heritage includes lots of photos.
Despite their disappearing from Hamburg, double-articulated buses are flourishing in other parts of Europe, eg Utrecht and Gothenburg. Switzerland now has several cities with double-articulated trolleybuses with batteries allowing them to leave the wires. In Lucerne and now St Gallen they are at the heart of the transit system. Zurich, Berne, Geneva, and Linz (Austria) are even better. They have both trams and (battery fitted) double-articulated trolleybuses!
Line 51 in Amsterdam/Amstelveen. It started at Amsterdam Centraal, running as a metro and sharing the tracks with subway trains and taking 750V from a third rail. Then, it shared the tracks with a tram, taking 600V from the overhead wire. And finally, it had some kilometres of track of its own (running on street level as a tram).
There’s also Niigata Kotsu Railway line in Niigata prefecture, Japan. The reason may be either the rails are fragile or the same reason as Moscow's monorail. It was closed entirely in April 4th, 1999. Here’s this video as an example of this railway: ruclips.net/video/6BOqG-MmARE/видео.html
The biggest shocking news currently is the retirement of the Hong Kong 1990s Peak Tram this Sunday after the last departure at 14:00 UTC! Thereafter, the whole system would be rebuilt and reenter service around the end of this year. For those in Hong Kong, take a ride now to avoid regret.
All those Transportation Systems run on Electricity ... so they could be envirioment friendly operated... without any CO2-pollution...if using for instance solar or wind power
The Las Vegas Monorail had been reopened, after a long closure due to COVID. But there are rumors that its current owners, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will close and dismantle it once they fully implement the Vegas Loop (ie: a partnership with Elon Musk's Boring Company to build and run a subway system that uses self-driving Tesla sedans) around the city. Another Las Vegas transportation system that looks endangered is the Mandalay Bay Tram, because MGM seems to have it closed indefinitely despite the State of Nevada lifting COVID restrictions.
"Stephan Cox" ... what about the very ambitioned plannings for a lightrail system, downtown Vegas to the Airport, before Corona came ? Have you any new informations ?
Brazil has lost all its trolleybuses (except for a 90% reduced operation in São Paulo and a tourist line in Santos) and all its long-distance trains. And half the bus lines have also been axed, forcing people to make two or three connections.
SEPTA trolleys 23 and 56. And trolley buses 29 and 79. And the 15 trolley is "temporarily" under repairs. Thankfully the San Francisco cable cars are supposed to be returning this fall after Muni shut down all the rail lines due to the pandemic. Only the K/T and N are operating in the subway: the J is surface only and the L and M are buses. Sucks.
For the Budapest one. We kept (if I counted it right) nearly 10 or 20 of the Ev3s at Örs vezér tere. And I saw one of them getting restored in the depot.
Did anyone ever ride those small Mercedes buses in Buenos Aires that went rocketing up the avenues like it was a race with huge plumes of black soot belching out of the exhaust? You had to hold the strap for your life. I wonder if they are still around. Or those old red rattletraps in Bangkok. I once rode one of those which appeared to be driven by a teenager on an orange crate. I rather enjoy the old Soviet style trams. Americans may deride, but those Commies could really build some cool trams!
The C751B rolling stock will also last for only ~20-25 yrs in Singapore (2000-1 to 2021-5) as the gov't plans to replace them together with older rolling stock (C151 & 651) using the R151 to increase fleet standardisation (we originally had these 3 models as the 1st model was bought longer ago when ridership demand was lower, then as it rose more modern models of rolling stock were bought to increase capacity). The older stock has also undergone resignalling only ~4-5 yrs ago
Not a transit system, is a model. The Barcelona Metro 1000 (Line 5)/1100 (Line 4) series. Those was my childhood, until they're got replaced by 5000 series in the L5 in 2005 and the 2100/9000 series in the L4 in 2009 😭
I can only conclude Wellington council are anti public transport, despite the national government spending to improve heavy rail in Wellington and Auckland
I'm so sorry to say that Cairngorm Mountain Railway is not at all in (the neighborhood) of Inverness, with city is almost 60 km away. Better should be Aviemore (18 km as the crow flies) There is also hope: BBC wrote on 3 november 2020: "Repairs to the UK's highest railway are to begin this week. The Cairngorm funicular has been closed since September 2018 due to structural problems. The Scottish government has provided £16m towards the cost of fixing the railway owned by public body Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The funicular connects a base station with a restaurant and a ski area 1,097m (3,599ft) up Cairn Gorm mountain near Aviemore. HIE, which also owns the ski centre, secured planning permission for the repairs from the Cairngorm National Park Authority earlier this year and Scottish government funding last month."
Something that has gone but was present with us gives us the value of it even it was not so good. These systems and rolling stock are a good example of it.
Not surprised about the Russian monorail. Very few live up to expectations and are generally a waste of money. As for New Zealand- what on earth is going on in that country? Replacing the Wellington trolleybuses (I've seen the system) with diesel when nearly everywhere, cities are trying to phase out diesel, and (I don't know if it has happened yet) the de-electrification of the North Island Trunk Line, again in favour of diesel locomotives.
To be fair the monorail did not close, yet so many people treat it like it's gone. But it is such a huge liability that if they do close it and replace it with tram connection as per plans, it will be a great relief.
For many years, the Romanian city of Constanța had one of the largest tram and trolleybus systems in Romania! But they were closed in 2008 (tram) and 2010 (trolleybus). I was sad when they replaced these with polluting diesel buses from Belarus! I have a video from the system back then: ruclips.net/video/KxEYP_mwMng/видео.html
Because mayors in Russia don’t care about people or cities. They care about money. Closing tram/trolleybus and replacing it by minibuses - is very good way to earn money. And because Russia sucks in urban planning. It’s like USA in 1960s.
The NZ Trolleybus system is controversial but it is being replaced by a more "clean" option called EV. They replaced it with diesel but the current fleet has the ability to be converted across to EV.
the old metrovagonmash metros in budapest, i really loved them, the newer trains on the M3 are just ugly and noisy, the new alstom metros for M2 and M4 are cool but not as good as the old ones
same thing happened in Constanta,Romania. the mayor decided he doesn;t want trams and trolleys in the city,and now he's in jail for nine years ! ruclips.net/video/KxEYP_mwMng/видео.html
The closure of Wellington's trolleybus system was a environmental disaster. When the last trolleybus enter the depot at 11.30pm on 31 October 2017 the power was switched off to all 9 trolleybus routes and replaced by diesel buses for the introduction of the so called multi hub rapid bus network that has become a operational and economic disaster.
Sad to hear. SOunds horrendous.
@@mayormc - It was a totally stupid decision made by certain local government politicians who got sucked into the hype of overseas transport experts. Wellington is a compact city that has a hilly topography which is ideal for trolleybus operations but the experts said diesel and eventually battery buses are the way to go, despite battery bus trails over the years have ended in failure. 6 of the trolley bus routes could have easily been used in the new rapid bus network.
at least if it's not either electric or battery, they could have used something other than diesel :/
or just don't kill the trolleybus
stupid decision indeed
@@youcanpunchmeintheface - I agree like with most of the city and regional rate payers who help to fund the Wellington city and Wellington region's bus, rail and ferry services, it was a stupid decision. Reducing the diesel bus fleet with battery buses is a a good move. In Auckland they are trialing a hydrogen/electric bus and I would like to see how that bus would handle Wellington city's hilly routes.
Wouldn’t a trolley bus system be perfect for a BRT route, you have a high concentration of large buses running on a single corridor. Making all those busses run on electric power lines would be easier than battery since they wouldn’t need to recharge at a station every time.
Moscow trolleybus, will forever stay in my heart.
Особое спасибо за это собянину 🤷🏻♂️
@Dutchball oh it, wasn't on purpose. I just thought the uga vuga looked funny and cute.
The "A" (Watertown) and Arborway portion of the "E" branches, on the Green Line, in Boston. Both have been, forever, "temporarily suspended!"
My dad has a story about trying to take the green line from Forest Hills after they had built a platform there in the hopes that trains would run there again. He waited for a really long time until a homeless man told him that "he would be waiting a long time", and he noticed the signs about the "temporary" closure. I think he took the orange line home.
I was not expecting my home town Budapest on the list, but yeah I miss those old trains, mostly their engine sound. It was good to hear them again.
The worst individually is the closure of the coastal line in Liguria, Italy. Very bad for tourism and three cities are totally without a rail link. They did construct a new line but inland and all through tunnels so you don't see anything, and as mentioned, three cities are totally without a rail link. A crime in one of the world's most famous tourist areas. They could have kept the old line for local trains and the new line for expresses.
*The Sydney Monorail comes to mind.* Nothing really like it since.
That was a giant mistake. It was so cool
I never had a chance to ride it let alone film it :(
I don't know where you took that Moscow monorail no longer exists, Tim. They do consider closing it, due to it being wildly inefficient, but it still works, for now.
Ever since its opening they have been talking about tearing it down and there has been recent talk of at least shortening the route.
@@timosha21 shortening? To where? First time I've ever heard of this!
@@timosha21 So then, it's not gone yet (even though it's good riddance, if they replace it with the planned tram line from Ostankino to Dmitrovskaya). Also it cannot be shortened, literally, there's no way to rotate the trains other than on the end stations and nobody in their right mind would build new loop for the system which is on the brink of complete uselessness as is.
@@timosha21 moscow monorail is still working mosmetro.ru/info/monorail/
@@mihan2d It would be cool if they could at least reuse some of the elevated track infrastructure for a light rail line, but it really needs to be replaced with a proper fast metro line. One of the worst things about modern Russia is how deadly its cities have become due to the emphasis on driving (and poor driving at that). It's like they decided to copy one of the worst things about the USA and then took it even further.
The good old Vanhool AGG 300 or just XXL bus.
A big part of my childhood sadly gone.
Great collection, well traveled 😁 I rode the Sydney monorail back in the 90's and was horrified to find it ended in 2013, but that's monorail's for ya!
U can come and film the last operational tram of India. It is kolkata tram which is still running in old kolkata side. It may get closed in few years due to rapid expansion of kolkata metro and monorails in the city. It is one of the most iconic and historic trams of south asia which is still in existence.
Don't forget history of Tandy subway in Ft Worth 1963 to 2002 and Tampa Harbour Island people mover 1985 to 1999!
5:53 That's a very interesting pantograph.
Some of the trolley buses and trams really looked like they were on their last legs - sad to see such systems run into the ground. I miss the tram systems in our smaller regional cities in Victoria - all gone decades ago...except for a tourist operation. On the flip side, trams making a comeback in big cities like Sydney and Gold Coast.
Rest In Peace 🪦
I once rode the short maglev line (M-Bahn) in West Berlin from Gleisdreieck to Kemperplatz, build along an underground line which was discontinued due to the Berlin Wall. After the reunification this maglev was closed and deconstructed in 1991 for putting the underground back into service again. Another discontinued transit system was the Vienna Stadtbahn, a light rail service with vintage tramway cars and left hand traffic which has been turned completely into a modern underground railway system by 1989.
I miss every tramway system that has been closed since the 1950ies as a sacrifice to the ideology of the car friendly city, especially those which have been well maintained and with a lot of tracks in lightrail standards.
But I am thankful for every system that has been reintroduced in about 100 cities, and sometimes their suburbs, too.
Moscow monorail is still opened. I personally took it in 2019.
For me, the most recent closure of the mean of transport are two shortlived trolleybus systems in Słupsk (opened 1985 and closed 1999) and Dębica (existed for two years between 1988 and 1990) and Poznań Fast Tram (in fact, the latter one wasn't removed forever, but it's on renovation since 2021/2022?, althrough it was opened in 1997).
Although the Bi-Articulated Buses are retired in Hamburg, you can find the exact same Van Hool Bi-Articulated buses in Aachen, also in Germany.
Sad to see these systems gone, I miss trams in Trieste-Opicina. I don't remember that much but I was in 2015-2016. Tram temporarily closed beacause of 2 trams crashing. the trams were fixed in 2017 but it costed 3M Euros to reopen. System could open in february 2020 but I would say that they still didn't open beacuse of COVID-19 pandemic.
Moscow monorail was built by Intamin, a roller coaster manufacturer. Intamin monorails are more suitable for amusement park, but i don't understand why it was choosen for this system and also for the brand new Bologna Marconi Express
Another transit system that was sadly closed is the POMA "mini-metro" in the French city of Laon
Better get to Pittsburgh before it's too late. They just built and opened a $0.5 billion Light Rail tunnel under one of the rivers a few years ago and now, on their website, they are claiming high maintenance costs forcing them to consider abandoning a major portion of the same Light Rail system. The "Library" line, in service for over 100 years (previously a trolley line), to be taken out of service and the valuable private right-of-way abandoned.
Pittsburgh's so called subway included a branch to Pennsylvania Station used by all of 4 Amtrak trains a day. Only a couple trips before it closed entirely.
If they got federal funding for the line under the river, then close it before so many years go by, they have to repay that funding.
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 Nobody's going to repay any funding and they all know it. At one time the commitment to expanding Light Rail was such that the Penn Station spur was planned to be an extension up the Allegheny Valley with its own tunnel under the river. Plus the tunnel that was actually built was to extend Light Rail up the Ohio Valley and eventually to the airport. Burned by every politician at the city, state and federal level for cost overruns, the transit authority has reversed course, looking to dismantle and eventually close the entire Light Rail system they spent over $3 billion to build. Nobody wants to be associated with Light Rail.
"@joe stewart" ... They haven't understood the ongoing initiative "RE-CONNECTING AMERICA", at all.
On the other hand, it is a phenomenon also in other cities, to raise these systems artificial more expensive (so that some can fill their pockets) and then wondering, that there's trouble ahead. Those responsibles do not even understand, that they are sawing off the branch, on which they are sitting themselves.
In particular the Lightrail System enables cost-effective handling, because expensive tunnel sections can be limited to the bare minimum. For the price of 1 kilometer Subway, 40 kilometers of modern Lightrail Line can be built above ground in Germany ... with the "right-of-way" and with priority signalling at all traffic lights and junctions, underway.
What about "Shannon Loop" ?
@@centredoorplugsthornton4112 ... It doesn't get any more stupid !
Pittsburgh was one of the very few remaining classic Streetcar Systems within the United States. It survived the corruption of the automobile lobby and the philosophy of the "car-friendly city" for decades, until the upgrade to a Lightrail System came in the 80s.
And now, of all times, in the face of climate change and the political U-turn in transport policy, where rail based transportation is celebrating a revival around the world, where car traffic is more and more banned downtown and city centers are being revitalized ... now all of this is to be reversed in Pittsburgh ? It has to be said clearly, that this is not a solution, but a disinvestment. Backwards instead of forwards !
However, it is not the transportation system itself to blame, but the dilettantes who are responsible for planning, construction and operation in Pittsburgh. That's why they dont't want to be associated with LRT anymore, so as not to be reminded of the shame about their own ineptitude and their mistakes, what has undermined the success of LRT.
replacing atrolley bus in NZ with dirty deisel buses makes no sense
Wellington trolley buses were replaced by diesel buses single and double deckers, plus a few electric double decker with more coming.
In France, the city of Laon (20.000 inhabitants) had a metro system, unfortunatly don't work anymore since 2016 :(
The Melaka Monorail (Malaysia)was closed for repairs
Is it opened or still in temporary closure?
@@chenyeanmingtakumi9033 It is a permanent failure.Give me protection and I can give you exact details.
Boston's trolleybus system will soon join this list, bringing the total number of trolleybus systems in the US to just four. As of May 2022 the Cambridge trolleybus routes have been converted to diesel, and the dual mode buses in the Silver Line will be replaced in the coming months with extended range hybrid buses. This also marks the end of dual mode buses in North America :(
Sad to see these systems disappear. Hopefully some will return
These aren’t systems though, they’re vehicles. I’m confused
Nice NCTD Sprinter pfp 👍
I miss trolleybuses, and specially those in Tampere and Helsinki.
The double articulated buses(from number 9) still rocking the streets in Utrecht(The Netherlands). Same manufacturer even. So what is lost in one city, is still aviable an other ;)
Wellington's closure was pretty much forced out of necessity. The only trolley bus manufacturer in Oceania went bankrupt due to bad business deals, Go Metro couldn't get any spare parts without sacrificing their own buses for them. Importing them from China was going to be too expensive.
NZ could have made the parts themselves, that is exactly how they keep the older trams going in Blackpool UK.
@@PsychicLord Yes, they potentially could have - but with no experience in doing so how good was the quality going to be? And how much was it going to cost? Too much. The novelty of trolley buses is cool, but Wellington transport isn't a tourist venture that draws lots of money, it's a necessary public transport system. It just wasn't going to be viable. They even tried doing a trolley to electric battery conversion since the bus bodies were in great condition, and even that was too expensive to sustain.
@@KevinFields777 there are still manufacturers of new, modern trolley busses so why would it have not been cheaper to import new trolley buses instead of buying diesel buses to run for a few years while the charging infrastructure for battery buses is being built out and then buying battery busses
I loved the Budapest Metro. Reminded me of my first trip to Moscow and what was then called Leningrad back in what was the Soviet Union. (April 1988)
Actually, there is information about the resurrection of the tram in Tver. According to the plans, this will happen already at the second stage of the implementation of the transport reform. I think this is a kind of positive news, after all.
Boston's last trolleybuses were withdrawn from Cambridge only a few months ago...replaced by diesel buses!
The Minnesota Zoo Skyrail Monorail that opening with the zoo in 1979 the Skyrail system closed permanently in 2013 and the cars where sold off to be used as cabin in Wisconsin.
The actual closure of the Almaty tramway was very sudden. My friend was coming to visit me and was waiting for a tram when an old lady saw him and told him the system had closed forever the previous day!
Hello! 7:10 The Moscow Monorail System works on these days, but in torustic mode: 1 train every 30 minutes.
I think Wellington, New Zealand replaces trolley for a more polluting diesel bus, another dieselgate
I was there a few months after the trolley bus system had been discontinued but still saw the overhead line masts everywhere.
An additional trackless trolley system you might want to add to the list is Boston. According to You Tuber Chicago Transit, trackless trolley routes in Cambridge (located near Harvard University) have made their last runs earlier this year and have since converted to bus operations. Other transit services (3 subway lines, 5 trolley lines [including two recently expanded trolley services to nearby Somerville] and a whole host of commuter rail lines still exist as of June 2022.
Rolling stock I miss the most: Hawker-Siddeley H5 (Toronto Subway)
Same here. Same here.
The Boston Silver Line SL1, SL2, and SL3 services. Currently hybrid trackless trolleys / diesel busses, the MBTA is slated to replace them all with diesel busses from what I hear. Ditto for the Watertown and West and North Cambridge trackless trolleys ☹️
Correction: *battery electric* busses
Denver, Colorado had very unique busses running down the main shopping strip downtown (16th St. Mall). Known as the "Free Mall Ride" the route featured very iconic TransTeq EcoMark shuttle busses custom-made for the route. In 2015 the shuttles were swapped out for another ascetically unconventional bus, the DesignLine EcoSaver IV (looks almost exactly like the Wellington, NZ busses in the video). Sadly in 2020, the busses were once again traded in, this time for the BYD K10MR, a more modern and less unique looking bus in my opinion.
The people mover shut down? How did I not know about this!
Detroit had a trolley that opened in 1976 as part of the US bicentennial. It officially closed in 2003 but I never remember it operating most times.
Hard to find pictures online but the book Detroit's Streetcar Heritage includes lots of photos.
Despite their disappearing from Hamburg, double-articulated buses are flourishing in other parts of Europe, eg Utrecht and Gothenburg. Switzerland now has several cities with double-articulated trolleybuses with batteries allowing them to leave the wires. In Lucerne and now St Gallen they are at the heart of the transit system. Zurich, Berne, Geneva, and Linz (Austria) are even better. They have both trams and (battery fitted) double-articulated trolleybuses!
Line 51 in Amsterdam/Amstelveen. It started at Amsterdam Centraal, running as a metro and sharing the tracks with subway trains and taking 750V from a third rail. Then, it shared the tracks with a tram, taking 600V from the overhead wire. And finally, it had some kilometres of track of its own (running on street level as a tram).
There’s also Niigata Kotsu Railway line in Niigata prefecture, Japan. The reason may be either the rails are fragile or the same reason as Moscow's monorail. It was closed entirely in April 4th, 1999. Here’s this video as an example of this railway:
ruclips.net/video/6BOqG-MmARE/видео.html
The biggest shocking news currently is the retirement of the Hong Kong 1990s Peak Tram this Sunday after the last departure at 14:00 UTC! Thereafter, the whole system would be rebuilt and reenter service around the end of this year. For those in Hong Kong, take a ride now to avoid regret.
The Japanese sleeper train looked like a very nice and cozy service.
Yeah shinkansen is faster and more convenient but night trains are always a magical experience
You can still ride one, between Tokyo and Takamatsu in Shikoku Island, and Tokyo and Izumo.
Think _Hokutosei_ also means _ "Ursa Minor" _ in Japanese
All those Transportation Systems run on Electricity ... so they could be envirioment friendly operated... without any CO2-pollution...if using for instance solar or wind power
The Las Vegas Monorail had been reopened, after a long closure due to COVID. But there are rumors that its current owners, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will close and dismantle it once they fully implement the Vegas Loop (ie: a partnership with Elon Musk's Boring Company to build and run a subway system that uses self-driving Tesla sedans) around the city.
Another Las Vegas transportation system that looks endangered is the Mandalay Bay Tram, because MGM seems to have it closed indefinitely despite the State of Nevada lifting COVID restrictions.
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... what about the very ambitioned plannings for a lightrail system, downtown Vegas to the Airport, before Corona came ? Have you any new informations ?
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Brazil has lost all its trolleybuses (except for a 90% reduced operation in São Paulo and a tourist line in Santos) and all its long-distance trains. And half the bus lines have also been axed, forcing people to make two or three connections.
SEPTA trolleys 23 and 56. And trolley buses 29 and 79. And the 15 trolley is "temporarily" under repairs. Thankfully the San Francisco cable cars are supposed to be returning this fall after Muni shut down all the rail lines due to the pandemic. Only the K/T and N are operating in the subway: the J is surface only and the L and M are buses. Sucks.
For the Budapest one. We kept (if I counted it right) nearly 10 or 20 of the Ev3s at Örs vezér tere. And I saw one of them getting restored in the depot.
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For the CMR, why not make a narrow gauge railway that goes up hill via zigzags like in Darjeeling and Siliguri in India?
Tim! One of the old soviet trains from Budapest (81-717) is still serves on line 3! Rarely but it serves. The last mohican!
Some very old first generation and second generation trains in Singapore on the north-south line and the east-west line are gone (scrapped)
Did anyone ever ride those small Mercedes buses in Buenos Aires that went rocketing up the avenues like it was a race with huge plumes of black soot belching out of the exhaust? You had to hold the strap for your life. I wonder if they are still around. Or those old red rattletraps in Bangkok. I once rode one of those which appeared to be driven by a teenager on an orange crate. I rather enjoy the old Soviet style trams. Americans may deride, but those Commies could really build some cool trams!
-The 3900 Class Of Valencia Subway (1995-2012, only 17 years)
-Renfe Alaris 490
(1999-2013, only 14 years)
Both at Spain
The C751B rolling stock will also last for only ~20-25 yrs in Singapore (2000-1 to 2021-5) as the gov't plans to replace them together with older rolling stock (C151 & 651) using the R151 to increase fleet standardisation (we originally had these 3 models as the 1st model was bought longer ago when ridership demand was lower, then as it rose more modern models of rolling stock were bought to increase capacity). The older stock has also undergone resignalling only ~4-5 yrs ago
Not a transit system, is a model. The Barcelona Metro 1000 (Line 5)/1100 (Line 4) series. Those was my childhood, until they're got replaced by 5000 series in the L5 in 2005 and the 2100/9000 series in the L4 in 2009 😭
Tram lines in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Replaced by buses.
Trolleycoaches in Mendoza, Argentina.
I am saddened that CTA discontinued the use of electric trolley buses in 1973.
The trolley busses of Petropavlovsk remind me of the ones they had in Dallas in the 1950's.
I miss the duwag u2. There is only one left in passenger service in my city. Not shure how long until it too is out of service.
Oh that's sad! 😣
what did trolley buses do to warrent their constant closures?!
I can only conclude Wellington council are anti public transport, despite the national government spending to improve heavy rail in Wellington and Auckland
The rope-drawn ferry at Tai O, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Obsoleted by a bridge.
They should convert the Hamburg double articulated bus routes into trams
I'm so sorry to say that Cairngorm Mountain Railway is not at all in (the neighborhood) of Inverness, with city is almost 60 km away. Better should be Aviemore (18 km as the crow flies)
There is also hope: BBC wrote on 3 november 2020:
"Repairs to the UK's highest railway are to begin this week.
The Cairngorm funicular has been closed since September 2018 due to structural problems.
The Scottish government has provided £16m towards the cost of fixing the railway owned by public body Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The funicular connects a base station with a restaurant and a ski area 1,097m (3,599ft) up Cairn Gorm mountain near Aviemore.
HIE, which also owns the ski centre, secured planning permission for the repairs from the Cairngorm National Park Authority earlier this year and Scottish government funding last month."
Something that has gone but was present with us gives us the value of it even it was not so good.
These systems and rolling stock are a good example of it.
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Not surprised about the Russian monorail. Very few live up to expectations and are generally a waste of money.
As for New Zealand- what on earth is going on in that country? Replacing the Wellington trolleybuses (I've seen the system) with diesel when nearly everywhere, cities are trying to phase out diesel, and (I don't know if it has happened yet) the de-electrification of the North Island Trunk Line, again in favour of diesel locomotives.
To be fair the monorail did not close, yet so many people treat it like it's gone. But it is such a huge liability that if they do close it and replace it with tram connection as per plans, it will be a great relief.
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Those aren’t transit systems. They’re just parts of their transit systems.
The London Trolleybus network, the largest in the world at that time :(
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Can we talk about the monorail in Las Vegas? ik it isn’t a railroad or anything like that, but it’s still sad to see it gone.
But its open? www.casino.org/news/las-vegas-monorail-back-on-track-for-convention-center-event/
@@timosha21 wait really? Thought they were closed permanently 😅
@@YukariAkiyama Have to hand it to you ;) Was a sad for a brief moment and had a sigh of relief to see that this is not the case phewwwww
The amalty's trams are in romania too but they are gone in 2021/2020
For many years, the Romanian city of Constanța had one of the largest tram and trolleybus systems in Romania! But they were closed in 2008 (tram) and 2010 (trolleybus). I was sad when they replaced these with polluting diesel buses from Belarus! I have a video from the system back then: ruclips.net/video/KxEYP_mwMng/видео.html
Never knew Moscow even *had* a monorail.
The 2 trolley bus systems are the biggest and most selfish closures.
I agree with the Moscow system because of Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
I did visit Moscow's monorail back in 2009 on my return visit to what was now the Russian Federation.
Why are trams still closed in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, while in the rest of the world they form the basis for modern traffic planning?
Because mayors in Russia don’t care about people or cities. They care about money. Closing tram/trolleybus and replacing it by minibuses - is very good way to earn money.
And because Russia sucks in urban planning. It’s like USA in 1960s.
Wow, you do a lot of traveling!
The NZ Trolleybus system is controversial but it is being replaced by a more "clean" option called EV. They replaced it with diesel but the current fleet has the ability to be converted across to EV.
Moscow monorail is still working
The hamburg bi articulated you rec it at top 10 most interessant buses
And scotland tram you show in an video
Moscow monorail still exists.
the old metrovagonmash metros in budapest, i really loved them, the newer trains on the M3 are just ugly and noisy, the new alstom metros for M2 and M4 are cool but not as good as the old ones
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All japanese local systems
....out side of tokyo
It's possible that the DC metro might close
Where did you here that and why?
No way! That would KILL Washington traffic!
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Sydney monorail
same thing happened in Constanta,Romania. the mayor decided he doesn;t want trams and trolleys in the city,and now he's in jail for nine years ! ruclips.net/video/KxEYP_mwMng/видео.html
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