Why not join the BTS?Modern Trolleybus Systems
There are around 350 trolleybus systems still running world-wide. That's as many as there are street tramways! This fact astounds most people who have never seen a modern trolleybus system, and therefore think they are defunct. However, the majority of them are in the Eastern Bloc countries, so the chances of coming across one whilst on holiday is quite small.
However, a good many major cities around the world operate trolleybus systems, including Vancouver, San Francisco, Geneva, Lyon, Salzburg, Athens, Wellington and Moscow. In many of these places, the Trolleybus is the backbone of the public transport system.
New networks are being constructed or proposed all the time - the Italian systems in Lecce and Rome, for example, have just been introduced in recent years. More and more, environmentally friendly electric Trolleybuses are being acknowledged as an efficient, clean and popular choice for public transport.
This page will become an entry point to various modern systems and other web sites showing modern systems.
For starters here are some links which show trolleybuses operating in very recent years, and also statistics of the spread of systems around the world:
www.worldwide.trolleybus.org.uk
www.tbus.org.uk/systems.htm and www.tbus.org.uk/news.htm
A new system in Castellón, Spain, seen during construction in December 2007
Czech Republic - Mariánské Lázne
A petition to take the reintroduction of trolleybuses in the UK seriously ran through 2007. It closed with 1788 signatures - you can see the petition and read the Government's response at: petitions.pm.gov.uk/Trolleybuses/ .
www.frank-spindler.de/ - photographs of current trolleybus systems, mainly in Eastern Europe - seems to be temporarily unavailable.
Members' Photo websites: