About one-fifth of all King County Metro Transit rides are made on an electric bus, powered by a nonpolluting trolley wire overhead. But the agency hasn’t purchased a new trolleybus since 1979. Since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With no heavy battery, no emissions, no time wasted recharging, trolleybuses are powered entirely by overhead electric wires. At a ...

Ludmilla Vasilieva, the driver for the 4:05 p.m. trolleybus, stared impatiently at two foreign tourists who were standing at the bus stop in Yalta, Crimea, contemplating their next move. Since the ...

To get to Yalta, one group of German tourists decide to travel nearly 100 kilometers across the mountains and along the sea by trolleybus instead of taking a taxi. Every 20 minutes, trolleybus 52 ...

The Russians attacked a trolleybus depot in the Slobidskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 29-30 May. Eighteen trolleybuses and 33 residential buildings were damaged and two employees were injured ...

A trolleybus rides from the Crimea's main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal resort of Yalta, on March 28, 2014 Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea's turbulent recent history, ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...

A bygone era of transport in Belfast has been brought to life in a new book about the city's trolleybuses. The book features many of the city's well-known roads and streets from the 1930s through to ...

In December, London mayor Sadiq Khan declared a climate emergency at the unanimous request of the London assembly. The assembly calls on Khan to do “an urgent updating of his carbon reduction targets ...

Berlin (dpa) - The trolleybus is considered by many to be clunky technology from the past. But thanks to technical innovation, these so-called silent servants are staging a comeback as some countries ...

A trolleybus rides from the peninsula's main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal resort of Yalta, on March 28, 2014 Yalta: Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea's turbulent recent ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...