Comments on: Just Take the Trolley http://www.smalltownwren.com/2010/02/just-take-the-trolley/ Moving Home Again Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:47:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Stan Thompson http://www.smalltownwren.com/2010/02/just-take-the-trolley/comment-page-1/#comment-14248 Stan Thompson Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:47:54 +0000 http://www.smalltownwren.com/?p=396#comment-14248 Epilog: Those who look forward to the return of urban rail transit, take heart! Next year (2012) the northern Spanish Principality of Asturias will place in service the world's first hydrolley—a wireless, fuel cell hybrid tram or streetcar power by hydrogen fuel cells with regenerative braking. My prediction: This will change everything! It cuts about US$10 million per mile from the cost of urban rail construction and eliminates tacky electric superstructure that clutters cityscapes and tends to prevent trees from lining beautiful urban streets. For details, Google: FEVE+tranvía"serie 3400"+hidrógeno Epilog:

Those who look forward to the return of urban rail transit, take heart! Next year (2012) the northern Spanish Principality of Asturias will place in service the world’s first hydrolley—a wireless, fuel cell hybrid tram or streetcar power by hydrogen fuel cells with regenerative braking.

My prediction: This will change everything! It cuts about US$10 million per mile from the cost of urban rail construction and eliminates tacky electric superstructure that clutters cityscapes and tends to prevent trees from lining beautiful urban streets.

For details, Google: FEVE+tranvía”serie 3400″+hidrógeno

]]> By: Stan Thompson http://www.smalltownwren.com/2010/02/just-take-the-trolley/comment-page-1/#comment-2368 Stan Thompson Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:25:54 +0000 http://www.smalltownwren.com/?p=396#comment-2368 Visit the University of North Carolina (Appalachian State U) web site, Http://www.hydrail.org and and also Google the word "hydrolley". Hydrogen streetcars are way over due, US$7 million PER MILE is an unreasonable surcharge to pay to hang onto a 120-year-old technology a little bit longer. Not having hydrolleys as an option puts an enormous drag on the return of urban rail and community design based on it. Electric tram superstructure has long outlived is useful working lifeas a new systems alternative. Visit the University of North Carolina (Appalachian State U) web site, Http://www.hydrail.org and and also Google the word “hydrolley”. Hydrogen streetcars are way over due, US$7 million PER MILE is an unreasonable surcharge to pay to hang onto a 120-year-old technology a little bit longer.

Not having hydrolleys as an option puts an enormous drag on the return of urban rail and community design based on it. Electric tram superstructure has long outlived is useful working lifeas a new systems alternative.

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