• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    2 years ago

    that still doesn’t adress the cost of implementing it on the more than 300 bus routes there are in Santiago or how probable is that the infrastructure would get damaged or destroyed every time there are protests.

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          2 years ago

          9 trolleybus lines, 3 of which I know have about 1/3rd without trolley wires at the end so buses go on battery/diesel

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            2 years ago

            Santiago has 300 hundred lines of bus. all of them potentially serviceable by EBs.

            Even if we electrified the main corridors, we would still need a lot of buses able to run the entire length of the rout independently.

            and Santiago being Santiago that kind of infrastructure would be damaged on riots or something.

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              2 years ago

              Okay? Doesn’t mean Trolleybuses aren’t the best compromise. Infrastructure costs money, so lets make the same argument about roads shall we?