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Bergen to shut down Norway’s only trolleybus line due to faulty infrastructure and rising costs - Sustainable Bus (www.sustainable-bus.com)

submitted 1 month ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/publictransport@slrpnk.net

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"the newly installed overhead network turned out to be faulty and poorly assembled by a contractor with no trolleybus experience"... so the buses (Solaris Trollinos with Škoda electrics) are fine, but they got cowboys in to do the knitting?

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

When you don't have experience you get it by doing it - fixing your mistakes. Why are the contractors not fixing their mistakes - the job isn't done until it works right.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they extend their light rail, then that makes sense. Battery buses have come a long way. However ordering new buses, than having a bad contractor for the wiring seems a bit stupid to end it all over that.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

It does make me wonder what the contract was like, if they couldn't claim against the contractor who installed faulty wiring.