And on the other side, Salzburg runs trolley busses with an overhead wire
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They run those in San Francisco as well.
I would actually love to see Trolley busses in my city (Melbourne). You could have models with battery storage, so they charge up using the overhead tram lines we already have, and then can extend past the ends of them.
Same in Arnhem, Netherlands
They have those in Vancouver, Canada as well, when I saw that for the first time (early 2000s) my reaction was "why are we too stupid to use those in Montreal?"
Seattle, WA also still has a trolley bus network. They started taking it out, but fortunately a big chunk was saved and they're adding to it again.
They had those in the 1980s in Eastern Germany.
Is this real?
I would love to ride a bus that looks like a tram.
I believe they have these in Brisbane, Australia. This image is also from Australia somewhere given the street signs and what looks like the Australian Aboriginal flag (and possibly the normal Australian flag) in the background.
SMH can tell you've never played geoguesser before, you didn't mention the side of the road!
Australia seems like a magical place.
This is in Perth, the bus in the background of the image is a TransPerth bus 🙂
Edit: I found this video for anyone interested; https://youtube.com/watch?v=28IE-Rt6GOQ
This looks a lot more tram than the Brisbane ones to me. Specifically because it's actually double-ended so has the benefit that provides of not needing to turn the bloody thing around.
It's a classic double articulated bus in Brisbane. We have them here in Europe and nobody do fancy things with them
China too, and UAE I think
malmö is full of them, but they're not quite insufferable (just stubborn) so they just call them "the malmö express".
We call them slugs where I work.