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Petition update, 27 February 2008

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Trolleybuses are directly powered electric road vehicles on rubber tyres, conventionally steered or guided like diesel buses. Lack of rails reduces costs and disruption to traffic.

They can get round obstructions and even divert along other roads if necessary. Depots need no wiring and need not be immediately adjacent to the routes.

They produce no fumes on street and are over twice as efficient as diesel buses, thus less carbon per passenger km. even if power stations are fossil fuelled. Renewable electricity generation makes them 100% non-polluting.

They are proven technology but updated with latest developments in many of the nearly 400 places where they are in daily use.

They are cost effective with the environmental advantages coming almost as a 'free bonus'. You can get more benefits across a wider area than with tram systems.

On systems elsewhere in the world trolleybuses have achieved significant modal shift from car.

Why has the UK ignored Trolleybuses?

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• Joe Croft
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• Simon Cochrane
• Doug Storey
• Alan Whitmore
• Sarah L. Gates
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