The trolleybus is an Irisbus/Iveco Citelis, with a Škoda VF drive. Its Diesel, hybrid and CNG versions are very widespread in France and Czech Republic because that's where Iveco factories are located. It's an evolution of the Renault Agora bus, which is itself an evolution of the Renault R312. They have a very bad reputation of cheap plastic buses and are often nicknamed "barbecues", because a well known problem of the Diesel variant of these buses, is that they catch on fire very easily because of a bad designed cooling system and not having enough vents.
The Citelis are also widespread in Italy too, that's because we also have a factory there (and was in my region too!). And yes, a lot of the Rome Citelis have indeed caught fire, and most have now been written off and scrapped
I rode on the Riga tram once, in late July 1990 or early August 1990 before flying with Aeroflot to Moscow Sheremetyevo. Back then, the trams were pretty much the same Tatra T3 stock. A tram ride at the time, was only 5 Kopeck. Prior to Riga, I was in Tallinn, and the trams used the more conventional diamond shaped pantograph. BTW I stayed at the Olümpia in Tallinn and they had 3 m/s lifts that were very advanced. I think they were from Sweden. The hotel I stayed at in Riga in July/August 1990, had a very old style lift, you push the button to call, and it is stuck in until it reaches your floor. When you choose a floor to go to, the button stays stuck until it reaches the chosen floor. My hotel 14th to 16th October 2009 in Minsk, Belarus, had the same kind of lift.
I was in Riga once, Did a cruiseferry trip. was on land only a couple of hours and mananged to film some few ecodiscs at Galleria Riga. Didn't even manange to use the trams!
Those modern trams have a interiour similair to Alstrom Lint 41 trains. My least favorite type of train because of their uncomfortable seats that really hurt after sitting on them for more then 30 minutes.
oh i'm glad they didn't buy this skoda trash for sofia and went for pesa instead which isn't that good but much better than this skoda and also tatra t3 originally had an accellerator
I spoke to some Polish tram enthusiasts (and two of them are tram drivers), most of them dislike PESA because of the horrendous quality of the vehicle as they claimed, and they prefer Škoda (like those in Wrocław)
my guy Skoda trams are 1o times more comfortable and modern than PESA ones. ive rode them both and skoda might not have such good sound as pesa but are much better and more spaceous.
The trolleybus is an Irisbus/Iveco Citelis, with a Škoda VF drive. Its Diesel, hybrid and CNG versions are very widespread in France and Czech Republic because that's where Iveco factories are located. It's an evolution of the Renault Agora bus, which is itself an evolution of the Renault R312. They have a very bad reputation of cheap plastic buses and are often nicknamed "barbecues", because a well known problem of the Diesel variant of these buses, is that they catch on fire very easily because of a bad designed cooling system and not having enough vents.
The Citelis are also widespread in Italy too, that's because we also have a factory there (and was in my region too!). And yes, a lot of the Rome Citelis have indeed caught fire, and most have now been written off and scrapped
I'm from Riga. Love our old trams honestly. But seats are not comfortable, my spine hurts :D
I rode on the Riga tram once, in late July 1990 or early August 1990 before flying with Aeroflot to Moscow Sheremetyevo. Back then, the trams were pretty much the same Tatra T3 stock. A tram ride at the time, was only 5 Kopeck. Prior to Riga, I was in Tallinn, and the trams used the more conventional diamond shaped pantograph. BTW I stayed at the Olümpia in Tallinn and they had 3 m/s lifts that were very advanced. I think they were from Sweden.
The hotel I stayed at in Riga in July/August 1990, had a very old style lift, you push the button to call, and it is stuck in until it reaches your floor. When you choose a floor to go to, the button stays stuck until it reaches the chosen floor. My hotel 14th to 16th October 2009 in Minsk, Belarus, had the same kind of lift.
The Tatra T6B5 with the newer pulsing drive sounds exactly the same as the Tatra T5C5K trams in Budapest
I was in Riga once, Did a cruiseferry trip. was on land only a couple of hours and mananged to film some few ecodiscs at Galleria Riga. Didn't even manange to use the trams!
Nice that you were in Riga! I'm going to Riga soon.
Latvia is northern Europe
WTF since Skoda trolleybus from 10:41 looks the same as IVECO Irisbus from Romania but different led panels showing the line number
Those modern trams have a interiour similair to Alstrom Lint 41 trains. My least favorite type of train because of their uncomfortable seats that really hurt after sitting on them for more then 30 minutes.
T3M has a nice pulse drive sound
New outro?
What’s The Point Of Having Trolley Poles?
Hey austin this is guys
oh i'm glad they didn't buy this skoda trash for sofia and went for pesa instead which isn't that good but much better than this skoda and also tatra t3 originally had an accellerator
I spoke to some Polish tram enthusiasts (and two of them are tram drivers), most of them dislike PESA because of the horrendous quality of the vehicle as they claimed, and they prefer Škoda (like those in Wrocław)
my guy Skoda trams are 1o times more comfortable and modern than PESA ones. ive rode them both and skoda might not have such good sound as pesa but are much better and more spaceous.