Exclusive Ride on MBTA Trackless Trolleys and RTS | BSRA Fantrip 2022
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- On February 26th, 2022, the Boston Street Railway Organization Hosted their farewell to the trackless trolleys fantrip, watch to find out more! Enjoy!
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When I was a kid the MTA ran trackless trolleys down Dorchester Ave from Fields Corner to Ashmont. Prior to that, old wooden streetcars ran on Dot Ave. I believe all the way to Andrew. I remember the Pepsi bottle cap on the front of the buses. And yeah, they would derail all the time. Sometimes with the help of kids after they were done hitching a ride on the back bumper. @Jeff you can't put chains on trackless trolleys so given how severe Winters can be in Boston I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
A sad day, thanks to the fools in management at the MBTA. I put them in a class with other idiots in Edmonton, Wellington and Moscow. In the mean time, the MUNI in San Francisco opens the new Bus Rapid Transit line using trackless trolleys on Van Ness Avenue starting April 1st. Vancouver announces that it will buy a new fleet of trackless trolleys and not battery buses. Seattle trackless trolleys continue to run and the dual mode trackless trolleys are doing well in Dayton, Ohio. Trackless trolleys still run on SEPTA in Philadelphia, but nobody knows for how much longer. SEPTA management doesn't hide the fact that they hate trackless trolleys and would get rid of them in a heartbeat.
The fleet of battery electric buses that replaced two SEPTA trackless trolley lines in South Philadelphia were a colossal failure and have spent the last two years out of service, hidden away out of sight in a bus garage. SEPTA got out the wire cutters with much haste in South Philly to cut down the trackless trolley wires, making sure they could never come back. Things like that are so obvious. I'm sure the MBTA will work overtime cutting down trackless trolley wires the day after they stop running.Who are they kidding?
dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-trolley-bus-replacement
www.sfmta.com/projects/van-ness-improvement-project
It was a fun trip and the BSRA offers great railfan excursions. I even spy myself at 2:55 looking out the window.
Oh cool!!
Still don’t know how I didn’t realize we were doing a photo stop at Benton square until we started to leave
nice video, I’m quite the fan!
Why, thank you ma’am :)
@@BostonByRails ur welcome
Too bad a 1950s vintage Marmon-Herrington or Twin Coach trolleybus couldn't have been brought in and operated for this event. Thanks for sharing!
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I live in Rhode Island, I just found out these are going away. WBZ says today is the last day they will run (Friday March 11 2022) .... And I can't get up there tonight. I'm hoping they run tomorrow, but it's not looking that way :( I can't believe government agencies like MBTA have managed to con the public that filling the whole world up with these hazardous batteries is somehow greener than a pure electric trolley.
They should run tommorow! Trackless trolleys are supposed to run everyday except sunday. Ill be out there tmrw.
"Woke" imbeciles who know nothing, have built nothing, will always be nothing. I suspect fusion power is right around the corner.
Totally agree with your disappointment in agencies plans. Some morons demolished whole trolleybus network in Moscow, which was the biggest in the world. Turns out they're not alone: other morons did the same to the network of Boston. Good job, morons!
I'm happy that at least in my city (Riga, Latvia) trolleybus network is still doing well. They even installed new fast remote-controlled switches in several places. Unfortunately, trolleybus routes get extended without deploying catenary -- trolleybuses run on diesel generator there. So there's no plans for extending the infrastructure properly.
Now they're running several hydrogen buses. Let's see what happens. Even the Latvian passenger rail operator wants to get electric multiple units on batteries instead of diesel trains. WTF? Maybe in several years batteries gain much larger capacity than now. Otherwise trains just won't make it to the destination -- there's no catenary on most part of the routes.
All this green crap is partly, if not completely, just another big worldwide scam. And unfortunately it doesn't have anything (ok, mostly) in common with ecology itself. But as some people who deal with public transit said, there's always fashion that drives agencies, even in things like urban planning and transportation. What I observe is that some time ago many cities were demolishing tram networks and rushing into trolleybus, there was a metro (rapid transit) boom in Europe and Soviet Union, then there's the tram renaissance, now -- the "wireless" shit on batteries.
Seems it is easier for those who make decisions to just cruise on waves of fashion than to think.
Where did they go?
so wait, are they disposing of the whole route or just the technology?
Technology which defines the route
Are the dual-modes getting retired too? or just the reckless trolleys.
Trackless*
Just the trackless trolleys, the dual modes have atleast a year left in them
@@BostonByRails Phew!
Well dual modes have been retired for a while now.
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Big mistake!!