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The Seattle trolleybus (or trolley [4] [5] [6]) system forms part of the public transportation network in the city of Seattle, Washington, operated by King County Metro. Originally opened on April 28, 1940, the network consists of 15 routes, with 174 trolleybuses operating on 68 miles (109 km) of two-way parallel overhead lines . [ 2 ]
A King County Metro trolleybus on route 36 passing through the International District en route to Othello station. This is a list of current routes operated by the mass transit agency King County Metro in the Greater Seattle area.
Trolleybuses in Seattle From an alternative name : This is a redirect from a title that is another name or identity such as an alter ego, a nickname, or a synonym of the target, or of a name associated with the target.
It travels 1.3 miles (2.1 km) and connects Downtown Seattle to the South Lake Union neighborhood on Westlake Avenue, Terry Avenue, and Valley Street. The South Lake Union Streetcar was the first modern line to operate in Seattle, beginning service on December 12, 2007, two years after a separate heritage streetcar ceased operations.
The Seattle Streetcar system uses a fleet of streetcars manufactured by Inekon Trams in the Czech Republic. The original South Lake Union fleet, consisting of three double-ended low-floor Inekon Trio-12 streetcars measuring 66 feet (20 m) in length were delivered in 2007 [ 27 ] and are numbered 301–303. [ 28 ]
This is the second largest trolleybus system in the United States by ridership [16] and fleet size. [17] The trolleybuses are valued by Metro both as zero-emission vehicles, [18] and as vehicles well adapted to Seattle's hilly terrain. Metro's trolleybus fleet consists of 174 entirely low-floor New Flyer Xcelsior coaches. [19]
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Cincinnati Street Railway Marmon-Herrington TC44 trolleybus #1300, photographed as new in 1947 Trolleybus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Boston trolleybus system A dual-mode bus operating as a trolleybus in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, in 1990 San Francisco Muni ETI 15TrSF trolleybus #7108, on Van Ness Avenue at Geary Street, in 2004