Editing Edmonton Transit Service (section)

==== Trolley bus system ====
[[File:Edmonton BBC trolleybus 192.jpg|thumb|ETS trolley bus]]
{{Main|Trolley buses in Edmonton}}

[[Trolley bus]] service in Edmonton started on 24 September 1939, operating on route 5 from 101 Street/Jasper Avenue to 95 Street/111 Avenue. By the end of October of that year, service had started on another route running to 99 Street/Whyte Avenue via the Low Level Bridge. In Edmonton, trolley buses were often referred to simply as "trolleys".

The trolley bus system used a mixture of Ohio Brass and K&M Elastic (Swiss) suspension for holding up the [[Overhead lines|overhead wires]].

The 47 vehicles remaining in use in 2008 were from an order of 100 manufactured in 1981–82 by [[Brown, Boveri & Cie|Brown Boveri & Company]] (BBC), using bodies and chassis supplied to BBC by [[General Motors Diesel Division|GM]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}

On 18 June 2008, city council voted 7 to 6 in favour of phasing out the trolley system between 2009 and 2010.<ref>{{cite news|date=19 June 2008|title=Trolleys reach end of the line|work=[[Edmonton Journal]]|url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a17d9aa6-0be1-4ae9-a977-0ca5a215d1ac|url-status=dead|access-date=2 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620194932/http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a17d9aa6-0be1-4ae9-a977-0ca5a215d1ac|archive-date=20 June 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> However, city council decided in April 2009 that trolley bus service would be discontinued earlier than had been planned, in order to reduce the city's expected $35 million deficit that year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Landry|first=Frank|date=19 April 2009|title=Mayor targets city honchos|publisher=[[Edmonton Sun]]|url=http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/04/16/9131011-sun.html|url-status=live|access-date=5 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132220/http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/04/16/9131011-sun.html|archive-date=7 March 2012}}</ref> The last day of regular service was 2 May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=ETS Trolley Buses|url=http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/ets/about_ets/ets-trolley.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616145950/http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/ets/about_ets/ets-trolley.aspx|archive-date=16 June 2011|access-date=3 October 2011|publisher=City of Edmonton}}</ref>

In 2007, the city leased a [[low floor|low-floor]] model of trolley, for 11 months, from [[Coast Mountain Bus Company]], Vancouver's bus operating company, for testing of possible benefits of low-floor trolleys over hybrid diesel buses. During its time in Edmonton the bus was numbered 6000, but was returned to its original #2242 when returned to Vancouver.<ref>{{cite journal|date=29 September 2007|title=Edmonton Tests new Low Floor Trolley Bus|url=http://www.trolleycoalition.org/pdf/bulletin17.pdf|publisher=Edmonton Trolley Coalition|access-date=31 August 2017|journal=Transit Talk}}</ref>