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Trolleybuses in Valparaíso, Chile, have provided a portion of the public transit service since 1952.The trolleybus system is the second-oldest in South America. [1] The originally state-owned system has been privately owned since 1982, and since 1994 it has been Chile's only operational trolleybus system.
One of the Pullman-built trolley buses that are still in service in Valparaíso, Chile, in 2014. CTA Pullman trolley bus 9338 and UMC bus 131, Irving Park Rd, 1968.
Valparaíso, one of the largest cities of Chile, has the only trolleybus service currently, and it is managed by a private company, Trolebuses de Chile S.A. (formerly Empresa de Transportes Colectivos Eléctricos). The single route is numbered 802 in the regional transport scheme and is about 5 km in length.
BYD B12C01 double-decker bus operating in Santiago, Chile (from Double-decker bus) Image 273 National Steam car Co Ltd ran steam buses in London from 2 Nov 1909 to 18 Nov 1919 (from Steam bus ) Image 274 Berlin horsebus (from Horsebus )
Pajaritos is a metro station on the Line 1 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. Ruta 68 and General Bonilla Avenue run parallel to the station. The station was opened on 15 September 1975 as part of the inaugural section of the line between San Pablo and La Moneda.
In Arabic, the word "pullman" is used to refer to a coach bus in Syria. In Arabic, it would be spelled "بولمان". In Latin America, pullman may refer to a luxury bus as well as to a railroad sleeping car. A Pullman loaf is a type of long, square bread originally developed to be baked in the small kitchens of Pullman rail cars.
An electric bus implementation program in Santiago, Chile, inspired by the buses in Bogotá, Colombia, began in 2014 through a partnership between the Chilean Ministry of Transport and two privately held companies, Enel X and BYD, an Italian electric company and a Chinese bus making manufacturer, respectively.
Transantiago, Santiago's public bus system. Buses are now the main means of long-distance transportation in Chile, following the decline of the rail network. [2] The bus system covers the whole country, from Arica to Santiago (a 30-hour journey) and from Santiago to Punta Arenas (about 40 hours, with a change at Osorno).