Feature Trolleybus Driver

Welcome to the Feature Trolleybus Driver page! This page is dedicated to the proud and professional trolleybus drivers on the streets of Edmonton in their trolley buses. They provide transit service with their trolley's with pride and confidence to citizens of Edmonton. This page was created in the light that Edmonton city council made a decision in 2004 to keep the electric trolley buses running until 2008. A common valid complaint to this is that trolley's are not wheelchair accessible and thus provide a varying degree of difficulty for strollers, elders and young children. The solution, low floor trolley buses are available! Vancouver is replacing their 200 plus fleet of 1982 and 1983 trolley buses with new trolley buses! In fact, the prototype has been built and delivered as of July 2005. Edmonton can replace their fleet of trolley buses built in 1982 with new trolley buses too! Trolley buses provide quick, swift, clean, efficient and quiet public transportation. Trolleybus service deserves a place in Edmonton's streets. Spread the word!

Now, the feature driver: (see caption below)

Her name is Laura, she has been working with ETS for 8 Years. She provides friendly, courteous service to passengers and of course enjoys driving trolley buses! Her favorite moment is a time when some poor service guy brought me a change over and I helped him put his poles on wire because the switch didn't work.Later I found out that the wire that I helped him switch to was removed for (Art Gallery) construction a few blocks up.Buddy had to be pushed to powered wire. Talk about leaving someone hanging on the line. "Oops."  . Her pet peeve is, "Manually controlled radio switches (radio switches that don't work)" Her favorite quote is "May the trolley gods be smiling upon you today"

Special thanks to Terry Dejong for the photo of Laura. To see the other feature pages for Laura, proceed to ETS Photo Express and BARP. Also special thanks to Terry Dejong for conducting the interview.

To see previous feature drivers, please select from below.

Janice
Karl
Granger
Palle
Gerry
Kelly
Clarke
Mark
Bill
Laura