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Celebrating 70 years of green transport in Eberswalde, Germany

New fleet with advanced technique will soon replace actual model.

On 21 August 2010, Barnim Bus Company (BBG), a project partner within the CENTRAL EUROPE project TROLLEY celebrated "70 years of trolleybuses in Eberswalde".

National and international guests had the possibility to visit the garage with an exhibition of old trolley buses which cruised through the city within the last seven decades. In this context, BBG and the citizens from Eberswalde symbolically said good-bye to the currently operating trolleybus fleet by signing a bus, immortalising themselves with a message on an old trolleybus positioned on the market place in Eberswalde. From November on, the old fleet will be replaced with a new fleet with advanced technique to aim for the next 70 years of trolleybuses in Eberswalde.

Furthermore, enthusiasts and advocates of this clean public transport mode had the opportunity to commit themselves to the trolleybus concept by providing T-shirts with their institution’s logo. All T-shirts were fixed on a trolleybus themed “Der O-Bus zieht an” (“The trolleybus dresses up”), resulting in a colourful mosaic.

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