As far as I can see, Don F, trolleys would be a step up for us only because the trolley system doesn't use fossil fuels, instead using electricity which we have plenty of because of our hydropower.

(On the other hand, when an avalanche takes out our power lines we go onto diesel which is almost 5 times more expensive, as we discovered last winter, when it happened twice. Our rates went from 9 kwh to 53kwh. Juneau made the national news those 6 weeks or so because we cut our usage by a third, both residences and the city.)

We already have half-hour bus service and there is heavy usage of it, often SRO. They are talking of instating short-run routes to the state offices and to the hospital area while leaving the longer runs in place.

Having such a smallland mass we don't need many transfers- only a transfer to the island across the bridge and another transfer to an express route to the valley which takes only 15 minutes rather than the stop and go route that takes 45 minutes to get to the same place.