Return of the trolleybus – a step backwards or road to the future?

Trolleybuses ceased operating in this country in 1972 but Leeds wants to bring them back. John W E Helm looks at the reasons why

The nine-mile cross-city trolleybus network will run from Holt Park in the north to Stourton in the south.

The nine-mile cross-city trolleybus network will run from Holt Park in the north to Stourton in the south.

If Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (Metro) get their way, the trolleybus will be returning to the streets of Britain’s third largest city in 2020. Plans for a £250m, 8.9-mile north-south radial route linking the city centre with the outskirts are well advanced, in what is the only development of its kind currently contemplated in the UK.

To date, the following progress has been made: the scheme received DfT programme entry status in July 2012,...

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