"GREEN" STORY * USA - Electric trolley buses created quite a hum in Akron transportation 65 years ago

Akron,OH,USA -The Akron Beacon Journal, by Mark J. Price -Nov. 13, 2006: -- Electric trolley buses provided the spark that Akron needed to modernize its public transportation system in November 1941... The gleaming new coaches delivered and arrived just in time for a date which will live in infamy.
The Akron Transportation Co., a forerunner of Metro Regional Transit Authority, proposed the trackless trolley system in 1939 to eliminate the need for the aging streetcars that rumbled through the city... "The quietest, smoothest, most luxurious ride of your life'' was sold as scrap... (Akron Beacon Journal file photo - Electric trolley buses line up for mechanical service in 1948 a the Akron Transportation Co. garage in the Kenmore neighborhood. The buses operated in Akron from 1941 to 1959)