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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_San_Francisco

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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.

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6 points

Same in Arnhem, Netherlands

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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?”

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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.

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They had those in the 1980s in Eastern Germany.

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13 points

Is this real?

I would love to ride a bus that looks like a tram.

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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.

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5 points

SMH can tell you’ve never played geoguesser before, you didn’t mention the side of the road!

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Australia seems like a magical place.

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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

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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.

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It’s a classic double articulated bus in Brisbane. We have them here in Europe and nobody do fancy things with them

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2 points

China too, and UAE I think

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2 points

malmö is full of them, but they’re not quite insufferable (just stubborn) so they just call them “the malmö express”.

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12 points

The bendy busses will continue to be built until morale improves.

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8 points

Sudden urge to lower morale so more bendy busses happen. Maybe bendier busses!

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2 points

Almost any public transit is better than no transit, but yeah.

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Of course, and busses (or at least trolley buses) are and for all of the foreseeable future will continue to be the best form of mass transport for rural, near rural, towns, and suburbs. I’m just jaded by politicians who seem to think that a big bus completely equivalent to a tram or light rail, and despise thouse who take half decent tram proposals and downgrade them once more into f-ing BRT, which is at best a slightly cheaper to build worse tram, and which rarely live up to even that goal.

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We call them slugs where I work.

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This feels like a mix of The LEGO Express passenger train and the Lego streetcar

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