The system currently has around sixty buses running on a network of about 50kms of wire. Trolleys service the suburbs of Karori, Brooklyn, Kingston, Aro St, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Island Bay and Seatoun, as well as the central city.
The service is operated by Stagecoach, a Scottish company, who seem to have a positive attitude to retaining the system. Stagecoach receives a subsidy from the regional council to run the trolleys. From time to time this subsidy, and thus the trolleys themselves, comes under threat from accountants and administrators who are often unable to see beyond the bonnets of their Ford Falcons. The current fleet, ordered in the late seventies, will probably be getting to the end of it's life by the end of the next decade. What happens then is anybodies guess.
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