>>1163974Same here. Yes, people did vote in favour of the trolleybus because they valued the noise and pollution. Schaffhausen has a hydro power plant on the Rhine river, so hydro power is cheap, clean and plentiful.
Schaffhausen isn't that big a tourist town, but it gets its fair share of visitors, it makes for a good day trip from Zurich. The main attraction are the Rhine falls, the largest waterfalls in Europe. However, the Rhine falls aren't in Schaffhausen proper, but in the neighbouring Neuhausen, though the two towns share services including public transit.
The trolleybus runs on an axis that communicates Schaffhausen and Neuhausen, as this is the most demanded corridor (more than twice as many passengers on the trolleybus as on the next most travelled bus line, used to be a tram that was converted to trolleybs), and the trolley is useful to get from Schaffhausen main station to the Rhine falls. The stop announcement for the Rhine falls is even done in english with an indication that it's the stop for the falls, while all other stop announcements are just in German.
A few years ago a train station was built next to the Rhine falls on the mainline, since it passes right next to them (you get a great view of the falls from the train). There's also another train line that passes close to the falls, over the bridge right next to them and through a tunnel under the castle next to the falls. With the new station people coming from Zurich can get off right at the falls, although only the slowest trains stop there. The fast trains run non-stop from Zurich to Schaffhausen. I think it's actually faster to take the fast train and the trolleybus, than to take the slow train. But w/e.
tl;dr, yes the trolleybus is used by tourist to get to the main tourist attraction which are the Rhine falls.
