| A WEBSITE ABOUT NEW ZEALAND TROLLEYBUSES |
By Nick Stoneman
Welcome to my webpage.The page on New Zealand Trolleybuses , is presently under construction.In the meantime please feel free to use the links below.All New Zealand Cities had Trolleybus systems as most cities in New Zealand chose to use Trolleybuses over diesel buses in replacing trams running through the city streets.The only New Zealand city that still has Trolleybuses running through the streets is New Zealand's captial city Wellington.Here is a little things about Wellington Trolleybuses.Wellington, New Zealand's second largest city, has operated trolley buses since 1949. It is now the only city in Australasia left with this mode of transport. (It was the last city in New Zealand to scrap it's trams and it still operates a cable car). The system currently has around sixty buses running on a network of about 50kms of wire. Trolleys service the suburbs of Karori, Brooklyn, Kingston, Aro St, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Island Bay and Seatoun, as well as the central city. The service is operated by Stagecoach, a Scottish company, who seem to have a positive attitude to retaining the system. Stagecoach receives a subsidy from the regional council to run the trolleys. From time to time this subsidy, and thus the trolleys themselves, comes under threat from accountants and administrators who are often unable to see beyond the bonnets of their Ford Falcons. The current fleet, ordered in the late seventies, will probably be getting to the end of it's life by the end of the next decade. What happens then is anybodies guess.Wellington Trolleybuses are safe until the year 2004 and then after that year who knows what will happen to the Wellington Trolleybus scene.
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