Cambridge trolleybus

Cambridge trolleybus

Legend depot Massachusetts Avenue & North Cambridge Carhouse Gate 77A Massachusetts Avenue & Porter Red Line Station Massachusetts Avenue & Upland Road Massachusetts Avenue opp Waterhouse Street Massachusetts Avenue & 71 Waterhouse Street 73 Garden Street opp Mason Street (Line 72 only) Harvard Upper Busway & Red Line 77A Harvard Lower Busway & Red Line 77A Bennett Alley 72 Concord Avenue & Huron Avenue Huron Avenue & Concord Avenue Huron Avenue & Larch Road 114 Mount Auburn Street Mount Auburn Street & Story Street Mount Auburn Street & Mount Auburn Hospital Mount Auburn Street & Longfellow Road 72 Aberdeen Avenue & Mount Auburn Street Mount Auburn Street opp Homer Avenue Belmont Street & Cushing Street Belmont Street opp Cushing Street Belmont Street & Oakley Road Trapelo Road & Belmont Street Church Street & Lexington Street 73 818 Mount Auburn Street Mount Auburn Street & Parker Street Mount Auburn Street & Marshall Street Watertown Square Terminal 71

The Cambridge trolleybus is the trolleybus operator of the City of Cambridge , United States . There, operates transport companies Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) four lines electric, one of them leads to the neighboring town Watertown . They are supplemented by various bus routes from the same company.

history

Cambridge originally shared a trolleybus network with the neighboring city of Boston , where the first trolleybuses ran as early as 1933. On April 11, 1936, the Boston network was expanded beyond the city limits to Cambridge, further routes - also within the city of Cambridge - followed. Between 1958 and 1963, the extensive Boston trolleybus network was shut down, while the routes in Cambridge have been preserved to this day.

A new system has existed in Boston since 2004. This trolleybus Boston is in turn operated by the MBTA, but has no connection to the remaining network in Cambridge.

Harvard Bus Tunnel

A local specialty is the so-called Harvard Bus Tunnel under the Harvard University campus . This is a 400-meter-long former tram tunnel , in which buses now run in addition to the trolleybuses. The Harvard transfer station in the area of Harvard Square is also integrated into the tunnel , where all trolleybus routes in Cambridge are linked to the Red Line subway line, which is also part of the MBTA . Because there is also a bus platform in an island location, all trolleybuses have an additional entrance on the left.

Lines

71	Waterhouse Street & Massachusetts Avenue - Watertown Square Terminal	HVZ every 10 minutes / NVZ every 13 minutes
72	Bennett Alley - Aberdeen Avenue & Mount Auburn Street	HVZ every 20 minutes / NVZ every 30 minutes
73	Waterhouse Street & Massachusetts Avenue - Church Street & Lexington Street	HVZ every 05 minutes / NVZ every 13 minutes
77A	Harvard - Massachusetts Avenue & North Cambridge Carhouse Gate	about 20 times a day

Line 77A is a special line number for trolleybuses entering or coming from the depot . Line 77A is de facto a short tour of bus line 77 to Arlington Heights, accordingly the trips of line 77A are listed in the timetable for line 77.

vehicles

The continuously low-floor vehicle fleet of the Cambridge trolleybus consists of 28 solo cars of the type AN440LF-ETB with the road numbers 4101 to 4128, the addition ETB stands for Electric Trolley Bus . They were manufactured by Neoplan USA in 2003 and 2004 , and Škoda was the supplier of the electrical equipment .

The last high-floor cars were the 50 New Flyer E800 solo cars purchased in 1976 . They were numbered 4000 to 4049 and were in use until 2008.

gallery

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  The Harvard Underground Station

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  Car 4120 of the current generation of vehicles in use on route 71, the additional entry on the left for tunnel operation can be clearly seen

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  Car 4029 belonged to the last generation of high-floor vehicles, here in 2006 on line 73

Web links

Commons : Trolleybuses in Cambridge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operating company
• Information on the Cambridge trolleybus at www.trolleymotion.com
• Picture gallery on world.nycsubway.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Last Flyer trolleybuses over 30 years old still in service, report on www.trolleymotion.com from April 15, 2008