Moscow has one of the largest existing trolley bus systems. It seems developers want the garages, which are downtown on valuable land, for development, and have persuaded authorities to begin dismantling of the system to replace them with buses, which can be garaged outside the city.
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Wow, it appears that Russia still has substantial trolleybus systems in many different cities. The Moscow trolleybus system is described as "First and largest trolleybus system in Russia [since 1933], and in former USSR. The largest trolleybus system in the world..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...us_systems_in_Russia
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...rolleybuses-campaign
I suspect there may be other reasons why the system is planned to be dismantled, perhaps because it has a lot of older equipment due for retirement, route changes or redundancies, street upgrades, etc.
Someone will say this isn't rail related, but it is transit. In London, trolleybuses replaced many tram routes, adapting the existing overhead power supply.
Now I learn that Moscow has a 3-mile monorail setup serving 6 stations (connects to two Metro stations), apparently built to relieve congestion on the ground. It began operation in 2004.
Or the overhead needs to be replaced, so it might be better to just remove it.
Apparently the Moscow monorail has been problematic and it may be partly or completely removed.
Probably a combination of factors. If gentrification is the reason they want to move the garages, it is also likely that people buying or renting those places will not want to look at trolley wire cluttering their view, so it likely also was for aesthetic reasons, plus i wonder how well the trolley wire setup handled typical Moscow winters.
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