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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russians attacked a trolleybus depot in the Slobidskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 29-30 May. Eighteen trolleybuses and 33 residential buildings were damaged and two employees were injured ...

2020 became the final year for the transport that helped Muscovites to move around the city since 1933. The need for new transport arose in the 1930s, as the population in Moscow was growing ...

For transport enthusiast Philip Thomas, the final demise of the trolleybus in Derby was marked with a week-long photographic odyssey. He recalled: “On Sunday, September 3, I had a tour of all the ...

Ludmilla Vasilieva, the driver for the 4:05 p.m. trolleybus, stared impatiently at two foreign tourists who were standing at the bus stop in Yalta, Crimea, contemplating their next move. Since the ...

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 ...

They were the original electric buses but 50 years ago today saw the plug pulled on the last trolleybus in Wales. Environmentally friendly and cheap, they finally succumbed to car ownership and fossil ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A plan to introduce trolleybuses to Leeds has been rejected by the government, leaving the city without a mass ...

In December, London mayor Sadiq Khan declared a climate emergency at the unanimous request of the London assembly. The assembly calls on Khan to do “an urgent updating of his carbon reduction targets ...