For months now, the transportation area of Government of Mendoza began to remove the cabling disused in different parts of the province of Mendoza. Firstly, the action was carried out in Guaymallén and Las Heras, until the Mendoza City. The task produced some problems in the transit during the week due to the large number of cars that circulate minute by minute through the streets of the capital. There is an area where the wiring will not be removed and it opens the door again to the trolley Mendoza, but thinking about the future and a very short route.
“We are removing the old trolleybus route in Mendoza, a long time ago. But we are going to leave the Center-Park line, we want to leave that original line because we have a longing. “I don’t want to generate false expectations or make a promise, but the desire is that we can return the trolley to Mendoza as a picturesque transportation in a small quantity,” he stated to MDZ Radio the head of the Mendoza Transportation Society, Daniel Vilches. Although it was clarified that it is not an official announcement, the intentions remain firm to return the service in a reduced way.
The line of trolley Centro-Parque goes through Boulogne Sur Mer, goes down Jorge A. Calle, passes through the downtown area and goes back up Colón-Arístides Street until it joins up again at Bautista Gargantini with Boulogne Sur Mer. What would be left, and which will not be removed as part of the wiring, is that area that forms a kind of square in the heart of the City to be able to resume the trolley at some point. This medium was able to verify that the cables have not actually been removed from the aforementioned area, when the work to remove the cables is already heading towards Godoy Cruz.
“We want it to be enough for us to recreate what was the Mendoza from about 50 years ago. It is a desire that we convey to the authorities, but obviously there are restrictions and emergencies to attend to first. I believe that if things improve in Argentina and that impacts Mendoza, it is feasible that at some point the possibility will be considered again, through the STMto return to trolley only with that route,” Vilches highlighted to MDZ Radio in the program Recalculating.
The official of the area of transport de Mendoza acknowledged that it is a possibility since it would be in a very limited quantity, no more than five units. “We were the first trolley line in Argentina with the installation of trolleybuses, we had the second fleet in Latin America after San Pablo and the people of Mendoza got used to traveling on that,” commented Vilches.
He trolley It arrived in the ’50s to the province of Mendoza and was quite a novelty, since in other Argentine cities the service did not exist in this way. The system worked with nine lines that connected the areas of Godoy Cruz with Las Heras and the Bus Terminal with UNCuyo and General San Martín Park. For many years the entire route was consolidated and fleets of trolleybuses were incorporated until 2013. In 2016, 80 trolleys that were already in disuse had to be auctioned off.
For the beginning of 2019, the system MendoTran arrived in the province and greatly changed the way of getting around by public transportation in Mendoza. One of the fundamental changes was that of some routes, which is why the buses ended up absorbing the trolley routes and the famous electric buses of line 100 were added, but without the need for wiring.
Without a doubt, the official’s words surprised and far from being an announcement, it becomes a request that the route of the highway be resumed in the future. trolley, but only on the central route. The nostalgia of several Mendoza residents remains intact.
