The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is removing the overhead trolley system throughout Oakwood, and it will be done in two phases, an RTA spokesperson said. Phase 1 includes removing ...

Just before noon today (April 17)—and for the second time in two weeks—a bright flash and a shower of sparks signalled that a trolley bus in the westbound lane of the 1400 block of West Broadway had ...

A trolley bus Monday (June 24) morning caused an overhead wire—potentially coursing with 600 volts of electricity—to fall onto the westbound roadway of the 1400 block of West Broadway. The fact that ...

An MBTA bus caught fire in Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon, according to officials. Police said the fire, which was in the area of 161 Huron Ave., was caused by downed trolley lines.According to the ...

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(12-13) 11:08 PST San Francisco-- San Francisco's 78-year-old system of electric trolley buses sounds like a model of green transportation: low-noise, no-emission, high-capacity vehicles that serve ...

SPRINGFIELD TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- Ten people reported injuries after overhead wires came down on a SEPTA trolley on Thursday. It happened on a Route 101 Trolley, near the Scenic Road Station, in ...

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