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! 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)

His name is Karl, he has been working with ETS for 24 years now, soon to be 25 years. He provides friendly, courteous service to passengers and of course enjoys driving trolley buses! Karl currently regularly drives on the Route 135 Downtown-Westmount. Karl hopes/dreams that Edmonton Transit System will get low floor trolley buses soon. His pet peeve is inconsiderate and uncaring drivers. His famous quote is, "Haste Makes Waste ."

Special thanks to Ken Baker for photos of Karl and Ashton Wong for the photo of 158. Photo of 156 was by Kevin Lo and the entire image was compiled by Kevin Lo. To see the other feature pages for Janice on ETS Photo Express and BARP, please click on the web sites as listed. Also special thanks to Terry Dejong and Ken Baker for conducting the interview.