Submitted on Saturday 27th October 2018
Rejected on Monday 5th November 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Cleaner Air! Bring back Electric Trolley Buses to cities and towns in the UK.
Pollution is killing us all, slowly and silently!!!
We urgently need to change transport policy in our towns and cities.
We need to bring back electric buses (trolley buses) that used to run on the streets of London and a number of our other cities with overhead wires on major trunk routes.
For most of the 20th Century, electric buses ran on the streets of London, only to be replaced by diesel buses in the late 1950s. It is now time to modify existing buses by replacing the diesel engines with electric motors powered from overhead wires on major trunk routes. Battery packs will allow buses to run on routes without wires until they return to the wires. UK - http://tbus.org.uk - Canada - https://www.translink.ca/About-Us/Media/2018/April/TransLink-launches-new-electric-bus-trial.aspx
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you would like to see electric trolley buses in towns and cities but we are not sure what action you would like the UK Government or Parliament to take to make this happen.
Local transport policies are usually the responsibility of local authorities.
You could start a new petition setting out what policies you would like the UK Government to adopt to encourage trolley buses.
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