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Several PCF–Brill trolleybuses and one Twin Coach on Pike Street in Downtown Seattle in 1956. The first trolleybus to operate on Seattle's streets was in 1937. It was brought to the city for a demonstration to gain public support for a plan to replace the debt-ridden streetcar and cable car system with a "trackless trolley" system.
Dual-mode (diesel & electric trolley) Diesel: Detroit Diesel 6V92TA / ZF 4HP600 Electric Trolley: AEG / Westinghouse: 1988–1991: 2005: 5000–5235 (236) 63 Electric trolleybus conversion AEG/Westinghouse 1988–1991 (converted 2004–2007) 2016: 4200–4258 (59) [59] 56 Last Breda trolleybus to be retired was unit 4243 on route 36 on October ...
Metro is also contracted to operate and maintain Sound Transit's 1 Line Link light rail line and eight of the agency's Sound Transit Express bus routes along with the Seattle Streetcar lines owned by the City of Seattle. Metro's services include electric trolleybuses in Seattle, RapidRide enhanced buses on eight lines, commuter routes along the ...
The line is popularly known by its nickname, the South Lake Union Trolley (abbreviated as "SLUT"), which is used on unofficial merchandise sold by local businesses. The streetcar was controversial in its first few years due to its slow speed, low ridership, public funding, and connections to real estate development.
It operates a fleet of 1,396 buses, serving 115 million rides at over 8,000 bus stops in 2012, making it the eighth-largest transit agency in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The agency has seven bases spread throughout its 2,134-square-mile (5,530 km 2 ) operating area [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and has 131 park and rides for commuters.
Dual-mode (diesel-trolley) buses used electric traction in the South Boston Waterfront tunnel and a short surface section, and diesel propulsion elsewhere. [16] Replaced by CNG buses with extended battery mode for the tunnel. Fairhaven: 16 October 1915 1 December 1915 Experimental. Fitchburg: 10 May 1932 30 June 1946 System also served Leominster.
The New Flyer buses, dubbed "tunnel buses" by King County Metro, were ordered in 2004 to replace a fleet of Breda dual-mode electric trolleybuses whose overhead wire was to be removed in the tunnel's renovation for light rail; [53] 59 of the dual-mode Breda coaches were converted into fully electric trolleybuses between 2004 and 2007 and moved ...
Seattle public buses at a base. Buses with the green-and-yellow livery and blue-and-yellow livery are King County Metro buses; the bus with the white-and-blue livery is a Sound Transit bus. 1 Line light rail trains in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel at the University Street Station