As my player's campaign world's infrastructure starts capitalizing on TL9 goods and services, I wanted to push forward certain elements of 'high tech' with a little bit of archaic styling to help lessen the culture shock of the common folk.

As ground-cars and beasts of burden are still heavily used even the largest of cities, the pseudo 19th Century Russian/Outback feeling of the world starts to blur into that of a funky Americanized neo-Tokyo near the city cores.

The above model and system was put into place not in the capital of Neu Samara, but in one of its smaller, yet still still significant cities. Its success leads to more 'Disney Monorail' style grav buses in the capital city some years later.

The Trollie is intended to service mostly street level stops and travels with the flow of traffic, but can if needed make elevator-style lifts out of traffic to let passengers embark/disembark from shopping center rooftops and the like.

As this method of public transport becomes more common, 'island' style communities will start to branch out, 'connecting' major cities, but without the typical highway infrastructure required, at least for commuting purposes.

This early model lacks even Basic Environment systems - hence the ends of each long window on the side can be cracked for air. The overhang helps protect from the rain, but the regions of Neu Samara that are settled rarely get very cold - the axial tilt is almost negligible at all hexrow bands of the planet.

Snifty in that, not only is it cheap, but in Kharkiv, where they are used, the initial price to ride is free. Initially this was to lure in those suspicious of anti-grav technology, but the marginal percentage of the budget needed to maintain and/or replace the trolleys and their induction system is small enough to just take over the pre-existing budget for public transport.