Berlin (dpa)- The trolleybus is considered by many to be clunky technology from the past. But thanks to technical innovation, these so-called silent servants are staging a comeback as some countries ...

About one-fifth of all King County Metro Transit rides are made on an electric bus, powered by a nonpolluting trolley wire overhead. But the agency hasn’t purchased a new trolleybus since 1979. Since ...

The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their ...

Polish bus manufacturer Solaris has secured a major new order from its home country. Public transport operator MPK Lublin has ...

This web site is devoted "transit's step child": the electric trolleybus. Our aim is to provide a link to every known trolleybus site on the web. Additionally we provide many photos as well. Some ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...

30 years after its retirement, the Istanbul Electric Tram and Tunnel Company replicated the veteran trolley which has come back into operation this week. The trolleybus has been manufactured in ...

A bygone era of transport in Belfast has been brought to life in a new book about the city's trolleybuses. The book features many of the city's well-known roads and streets from the 1930s through to ...

To get to Yalta, one group of German tourists decide to travel nearly 100 kilometers across the mountains and along the sea by trolleybus instead of taking a taxi. Every 20 minutes, trolleybus 52 ...

A trolleybus rides from the peninsula's main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal resort of Yalta, on March 28, 2014 Yalta: Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea's turbulent recent ...