Langford council has decided to hold on to the aging diesel buses, despite a staff report this week suggesting they should be sold to save on maintenance and insurance costs.
Langford’s signature rubber-wheeled trolley buses — mothballed since 2017 but occasionally trotted out for parades and special events — aren’t going anywhere. At least for now.
The trolleys were a regular sight around Langford for more than a decade starting in 2007, logging thousands of miles as a free service that helped to cover routes not offered by B.C. Transit at the time. For the past five years, the city has averaged $6,000 in annual maintenance costs and $5,000 in annual insurance costs for all three trolleys.
Staff said only one of the trolleys — the newest, a 2009 model — could be made accessible by repairing the passenger lift at an estimated cost of $60,000. The repair, however, is not economical based on the current value of the trolley.
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