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Nor do trucks in the city. Put trolleybus on a highway and it could do 90km/h.

• jessriedel 8y ago
  Do you know of any existing system of trolleybuses running at highway speeds? Equating the tech here is like equating trams with long-distance trains.
  • mantas 8y ago
    Well, it's city transport so they're installed in cities. But I don't see any technical issues to install them on highways if it proved to be cost-effective. My city got a significant trolleybus network. It's on slow streets only because that's where public transit stops are. But from technical perspective, there's nothing stopping from putting them on a highway. The biggest issue is tight intersections downtown. They go painfully slow at those. Straight line? No problem at all and they can safely floor it. And boy is there a difference between flooring a trolley and a diesel bus...
    • jessriedel 8y ago
      Without evidence, I'm not at all convinced by your claim that there is no technical issues to doubling the speed and handling heavy freight. There is a reason trains are different than trams.
      • mantas 7y ago
        Just like there's some difference between trains, high speed trains and freight trains, there would be some differences between trolleys and freight-trolleys or high speed trolleys. But the fundamental design is +/- the same.