Sentence examples for electric trolley from inspiring English sources

Electric trolley buses were used from 1937 to 1966.

Ms. Crawford compares her little red EV-1 to the defunct Los Angeles electric trolley system.

In the 1980s some cities in the United States began adopting light rail transit; the trackage for this modern electric trolley system was less expensive to construct than that for elevated or underground metropolitan train systems.

A light rail transit line (electric trolley cars) on a separate guideway taking the same space as the highway lane might carry as many as 14,000 persons per hour.

The gas-eating car replaced the electric trolley on city streets, but it isn't at all clear that the car is better at the work of people moving than the trolley was.

And there is no passenger train to the town anymore, though there is talk of revving up the putt-putt electric trolley that once ran to neighboring Clear Lake (it has occasionally been run for shorter distances).

In 1893, horsecars are replaced by electric trolleys.

Ten years later, electric trolleys were added, and the Kings County Elevated also began service across the bridge.

Ms. Sadik-Khan said the city had not added a major public transportation option since Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia secured a fleet of motor buses to replace electric trolleys.

The production itself is very eco-conscious, too, with transportation alternatives (a bike valet service, electric trolleys, carpool incentives) for attendees; biodiesel generators, biodegradable concession ware, and other innovative features.

Both entered service in 1901, as the descendants of the electric trolleys that first appeared in Los Angeles in its booming 1880s, under the ownership of magnate and Southern California booster Henry E Huntington.