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Old Posted Aug 23, 2018, 5:21 AM
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When BC Hydro received the assets and responsibilities of the BC Electric Railway company it took over the region's streetcar and interurban network. A decision was made to transition to buses, but since they were an electrical utility and the was already a complete electrical infrastructure in place, they decided to utilize electric buses and upgrade the overhead wire system by twinning the wires so that the electric buses' regenerative brakes could return electricity to the system. When BC Transit was formed, it received the transit assets of BC Hydro and implemented a phase out of electric buses everywhere except the City of Vancouver where the extreme stop-start nature of the network makes electric buses far more efficient and less maintenance-intensive than diesels.
Minor quibble. The Rails To Rubber plan was adopted in 1946, and the last streetcar left Vancouver's streets in 1955, six years before WAC Bennett nationalized BC Electric and created BC Hydro.
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Old Posted Aug 23, 2018, 4:21 PM
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There were never any trolley bus routes outside the City of Vancouver. And in fact when the transit system had been handed over to Translink's forerunners, they kept all of the existing routes and even put up a significant amount of new overhead wiring to service additional locations such as UBC, Joyce Station and Metrotown.
not trolley buses but there was definitely an electric railway especially through Hastings in Burnaby.
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not trolley buses but there was definitely an electric railway especially through Hastings in Burnaby.
Oh yeah, and if you count the Interurban there were electric lines all over the place. But SFUVancouver was talking about what happened when BC Hydro stopped running the transit system - by that time all of the electrified transit routes outside the city limits had long since been eliminated. Since then there's been some renewed extension of trolley routes, including the extension of the #19 line to Metrotown in Burnaby.
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