Riding Vancouver Trolleybus in Seattle's Pioneer Square on Battery Power

King County Metro loaned a trolleybus from Vancouver's TransLink for their Trolley System Evaluation. This bus travelled 8 city blocks using 75% of its emergency battery.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• King County Metro
• TransLink
• New Flyer
• E40LFR
• Seattle
• Vancouver

[VenerableEvil]

This would be great for construction re-routes and other temporary road obstacles. Maybe the 70 could still be on wire if they had trolleys like this in service.

[OranViri]

@VenerableEvil Yes and that's what the Metro person said.

[lastdropzz]

what's your camcorder?

[Myrtone]

@candyfreak07 NiCads have the memory effect, so is care taken to ensure that the batteries are drained before recharging?

[kr192101]

I hope that these buses get them in Seattle.

[kr192101]

Did they ever got the poles up?

[kr192101]

Seattle needs of these low floor buses. Disapointed they don't have any.

[TranslinkBusVids]

Im getting a head ache from the beeping noise !

[candyfreak07]

@caa1000 the trolleys in vancouver have a nickle cadmium battery so that if for whatever reason the poles come down (it happens more than you'd think), the bus can still move, and get out of the way, also, our wire switches at intersections are activated depending on wether or not the bus is drawing power from the lines, if it is, the switch trips. The driver has a button that allows the bus to stop drawing line power and "coast" through the switch, necessitating a battery ;)

[smwca123]

One of the background voices sounded a lot like recently-retired Vancouver driver Angus McIntyre. Was he on that ride?

[caa1000]

Is it me? Or is Metro wrapping their buses with ads @3:22? Don't recall seeing Metro Buses being wrapped for ads. Also, that trolley was connected to the wires or just plain hybrid?