Boston-area trackless trolleys

The trolleybus Cambridge is the trolleybus operation of the city of Cambridge in the United States. There, the transport company Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ) operates four lines electrically, one of them goes to the neighboring town of Watertown. They are supplemented by several bus lines of the same company.

History

Originally owned Cambridge a common catenary bus network with the neighboring city of Boston, where in 1933 the first trolleybuses were going. On April 11, 1936, the Boston network has been extended beyond the city boundary to Cambridge, long distances - even within the city of Cambridge - followed. Between 1958 and 1963, the extensive Boston catenary bus network was shut down while the span remained at Cambridge until today.

Since 2004, in Boston a new system. This trolleybus Boston is in turn operated by the MBTA, but has no connection to the remaining network in Cambridge.

Harvard Bus Tunnel

A local specialty is the so-called Harvard bus tunnel under the campus of Harvard University. This is an approximately 400 -meter-long former tram tunnel, operating in the today except the trolleybuses and buses. In the tunnel integrated is also the interchange station in the area of ​​Harvard Harvard Square, where all the overhead line bus lines are linked in Cambridge with the likewise belonging to the MBTA subway line Red Line. Because there is also a bus platform is operated in insularity, all trolleybuses have an additional entrance on the left.

Lines

The 77A is a special line number for the depot on-coming or coming from there trolleybuses. De facto is a short tour of the 77A bus line 77 to Arlington Heights, are in accordance with the rides the line 77A listed in the Timetable of line 77 the line.

Rolling stock

The continuous low-floor trolleybus fleet of Cambridge consists of 28 solo vehicle of the type AN440LF - ETB with numbers 4101-4128, the addition ETB stands for Electric Trolley Bus. They were made in the years 2003 and 2004 from Neoplan USA, a supplier of electrical equipment functioned Škoda.

Recent high -floor cars were the 50 in 1976 purchased New Flyer solo vehicle of the type E800. They wore the numbers 4000-4049 and were in use until 2008.

Gallery

To clearly identify the current generation of cars 4120 cars in use on the line 71 of the additional left-side entry for the tunnel operation

Car 4029 was the last high-floor vehicle generation, here in 2006 on line 73