Yes, sorry: I didn't make it clear that when I said "trolleybuses are returning" it was with the same sort of future-tense meaning as "I'm decorating the kitchen" -- i.e. I've bought some paint and tried out the new roller on that bit by the window: with any luck I'll get the whole job done before next spring...FleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 17:52Trolleybus (singular) at present. I did put a post on the trolleybus thread after I'd been on the route in March. To recap, currently ( pun vaguely intended) just one vehicle is operating an hourly service, just in case that is not obvious from the the YouTube clip, with thirty minutes out of each hour spent recharging at Palmovka.Viator wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 18:00 Modern trolleybuses of the kind you describe (with batteries to allow for uninterrupted travel through gaps in the overhead) are, however, returning to Prague: https://youtu.be/TJQnKtaQcac
I missed your very informative post in the trolleybus thread, Phil. I'm amazed by the coincidence that I was in Prague at the very same time as you, and I was there principally to take a good look at the public transport system. I'm kicking myself now, though, because although I passed through both Letňany and Palmovka several times (changing between buses, metro, and trams) I totally failed to spot the trolleybus installations at either hub (only stumbled across that video after getting home).
I can report, by the way -- you won't need me to tell you this! -- that public transport in the Czech capital is: excellent. My appreciation was very much enhanced by the fact that at my age travel on the entire system was free (and even on "heavy rail" in the country as a whole I had to pay only 25% of the, already cheap, full fare).
I know that people generally go to Prague to enjoy the city's architectural beauty -- and I did a bit of that too, but at 7 a.m., before the tourists have got up -- but (call me mad, and most people do) what I really enjoyed was "projects" like doing the whole metro system in one go, taking buses between the termini at the six line ends. It can be done in precisely four hours, by the way.