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[svt11]

Skoda 15T how much does it cost for the 4-body section?

[makaveli6]

I think it was about 3 million euros for each.

[Jānis]

3,27M

[KarlG]

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Belkommunmash's hybrid bus Vitovt A420.

[makaveli6]

Ugly as hell, but what does this has to do with RS?

[makaveli6]

Okay, I just saw this bus on Daugavgriva street, WHAT THE FUCK?

[SustainableNickname]

Originally Posted by makaveli6

Okay, I just saw this bus on Daugavgriva street, WHAT THE FUCK?

The most info I could find: http://translate.google.com/translat...43%26a%3D11816

I think it looks like a plastic bubble. Hope it has nothing to do with Rīga

[RipleyLV]

Welcome to the future.

[makaveli6]

Oh god, I hope I will never see that piece of whatever that is, again. We already have enough experience with Belarussian trollys.

[ABC LV]

1:1

[EdgarsSTAR]

Originally Posted by KarlG

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Belkommunmash's hybrid bus Vitovt A420.

Love it so futuristic better than boxes on wheels.....

[Hybrid 87]

To gve you (and me) more nightmare stuff here is the original "plastic bubble" (cuz this one is just a bus version) - Trolleybus
Belkommunmash AKSM-420 (a successor of the ASKM-321 and ASKM-333, which are used in Riga)


Hera are more pictures

If I understand correctly, then this trolleybus has been tested in Columbia and Argentina and the cities there are interested in buying this "trolleybus" and "bus", but no deals are signed yet.

IMO - Especialy that neon-lime-green version (click the link)
It would like nice in a futuristic movie or a city in Japan (maybe) but not in the ex-soviet cities for which it mainly has been made.

[stockholm79]

Passed the intersection of Brīvības iela/Matīsa iela/Miera iela and saw workers hanging up new wires on new poles.
I asked them if it was to prepare T11 for the new streetcars and they said yes!
When I ride the T11 next time I'll have to check the result and if anything has been done at the Tallinas iela intersection.

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[manrush]

Since Latvia already produces VDL buses under a license, it could be plausible to produce VDL's new trolleybus models.

Originally Posted by Trolleybus UK

Vossloh Kiepe has announced supply of 37 VDL Citea 18m trolleybuses for a 23.8 km two route network being built in Verona for completion in 2015. The vehicles will have supercaps, Euro6 diesel apus and automatic guidance at stops. VDL

http://www.tbus.org.uk/news.htm

[Hybrid 87]

Originally Posted by stockholm79

Passed the intersection of Brīvības iela/Matīsa iela/Miera iela and saw workers hanging up new wires on new poles.
I asked them if it was to prepare T11 for the new streetcars and they said yes!
When I ride the T11 next time I'll have to check the result and if anything has been done at the Tallinas iela intersection.

/or

Almost all wires on the T11 route have already been changed ... the part in city center is the last one (as much I have noticed from driving by in my car). At least I saw the "new" wire holders (or how are they called) on Miera iela between Tallinas iela and Brasas tilts, also on Brasas tilts and on Kokneses prospekts.

[stockholm79]

Originally Posted by Hybrid 87

Almost all wires on the T11 route have already been changed ... the part in city center is the last one (as much I have noticed from driving by in my car). At least I saw the "new" wire holders (or how are they called) on Miera iela between Tallinas iela and Brasas tilts, also on Brasas tilts and on Kokneses prospekts.

Those fittings have been there for half a year now, but there are a few smaller parts missing, mainly intersections with other wires.
I couldn't see any new intersection parts today, but I guess it takes more than one night to get everything prepared.

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[makaveli6]

Wait what? T11 will get the T15?

[BriedisUnIzlietne]

Have they rewired Gaujas street? Or are they going to wait for the building of Ziemeļu maģistrāle because it will change the alignment of the tram tracks? (Which sort of isn't fair because public transport should be the priority and journey times shouldn't be made longer.)

[stockholm79]

I think I've seen rewiring there, too.
And the Northern Corridor is still a few years til construction start.
And yes, it should have had the new ones almost a year by now, at least that was what they said when they were introduced on T6.

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[RipleyLV]

Originally Posted by BriedisUnIzlietne

Have they rewired Gaujas street?

Rewiring was done under new viaduct: