Trolleybuses in Quito

A trolleybus stopped at the Estadio station, in the trolleybus-only lanes in of Avenida 10 de Agosto

The Quito trolleybus system is a bus rapid transit line located in Quito, Ecuador, which opened in 1995 and by 2002 was carrying approximately 220,000 passengers per day.[1] It is managed by an agency of the municipality known as Empresa Metropolitana de Servicios y Administración del Transporte (EMSAT) and is operated by Compañía Trolebús Quito, S.A. The service is named (informally) El Trole, Spanish for "The Trolley", meaning trolleybus; this name is shown on signage at stops, and is used in publicity and marketing. Before being a subsystem of a larger bus rapid transit system of Quito known as MetrobusQ, El Trole was itself a whole system. Its formal name is Corredor Trole or; simply Trole, currently.

  1. ^ Webb, Mary (ed.) (2003), Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2003-2004, (UK): Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2565-0.