{"id":3535,"date":"2020-07-06T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tlt.ee\/tallinn-trolleybus-network-55\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:40:05","slug":"tallinn-trolleybus-network-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/tallinn-trolleybus-network-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn trolleybus network 55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On 6 July, we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the trolleybus network in Tallinn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The planning for a trolleybus system in Tallinn began already by the 1940s. The first route was supposed to be Balti jaam \u2013 Pirita \u2013 Meriv\u00e4lja. However, this plan was never realised. More serious preparations to launch the trolleybus network began in the second half of the 1950s. In 1957, the registered immovable Paldiski maantee 48a was allocated for the construction of a trolleybus depot. As the construction work dragged on, the depot was temporarily located at the \u00c4dala 7 warehouses. They finally moved to Paldiski maantee in 1970 and the administrative building was completed in 1973.<\/p>\n\n

By 1977, the route Estonia \u2013 Hipodroom had developed into route 1 Mustam\u00e4e \u2013 Kaubamaja. In the same year, the development of route 3, which had already started in 1969, was also completed. The first trolleybuses reached Balti jaam in 1970 when route 4 was opened. In 1971, route 5 Mustam\u00e4e \u2013 Balti jaam was added to the route Keskuse \u2013 Balti jaam. Trolleybuses 6 and 7 started operating in V\u00e4ike-\u00d5ism\u00e4e in 1980. In 1987, route 9 Mustam\u00e4e \u2013 Kopli was opened.<\/p>\n\n

The end station at Akadeemia tee in Mustam\u00e4e was completed in 1967, extensions were added to it at the end of the 1970s. The end station in V\u00e4ike-\u00d5ism\u00e4e was opened in 1980, prior to that a mobile home and a rental apartment in a nearby house were used. The end station building was completed in 1987. Keskuse end station was also completed that year.<\/p>\n\n

Trolleybuses became an important mode of public transport for the residents of Mustam\u00e4e, V\u00e4ike-\u00d5ism\u00e4e, Kristiine, P\u00f5hja-Tallinn and Kesklinn. Even though only four trolleybus routes remain today and some of the trolleys have been replaced by hybrids, they still hold an important position in the capital city\u2019s public transport. However, if we are talking about electric transport more broadly, then the future definitely belongs to electric buses, not trolleybuses. By 2035, only electric buses will serve passengers on the streets of Tallinn because electric transport is sustainable and human-friendly.<\/p>\n\n

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On 6 July, we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the trolleybus network in Tallinn. The planning for a trolleybus system in Tallinn began already by the 1940s. The first route was supposed to be Balti jaam \u2013 Pirita \u2013 Meriv\u00e4lja. However, this plan was never realised. More serious preparations to launch the trolleybus network began … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases-and-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlt.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}