Boston Trolleybuses

There are currently four trolleybus routes in the Boston, Massachusetts area, all run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Harvard Square area, and all former streetcar lines (the last four not connected to the Tremont Street Subway to survive). The MBTA and its predecessors once ran a large system of trackless trolleys, but most have been replaced by buses; the four survived, in part, because of the necessity for left-hand doors in the Harvard Bus Tunnel. They are all stored overnight in the North Cambridge Carhouse, the northern terminus of the 77A. Trackless trolleys do not run on Saturday evenings and Sundays; instead conventional buses cover the routes.

In 2004, the MBTA began receiving a fleet of new trackless trolleys from Neoplan, to replace older Flyer trolleybuses dating to the 1970s. The newer vehicles meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards (see MBTA accessibility).

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[Baron2yahoo]

@sieman700 somehow I don't believe that is the whole story. They didn't think of a way to fix that problem or use a solution that perhaps other cities use on their trolley systems to avoid this problem.

[geneking7320]

When I visited Boston in 2007 I rode route #71.

[Moose2482]

So you are saying that there are ABSOLUTELY NO Trolleybuses WHATSOEVER ANYWHERE in ALL of the city of Boston or surrounding area on Saturday evenings or Sundays AT ALL?!

[Lukaszwo]

Super movie!!!

[sieman700]

ya these are ok except for in winter when the overhead lines are frozen and ice cutter buses try to cut the ice but still cause delays so these trolley buses are good in the summer but have problems in the winter and the brother buses for those take over the mbta neoplan AN440LF diesel bus