Trolleybuses in Bari

The Bari trolleybus system (Italian: Rete filoviaria di Bari) formed part of the public transport network of the city of Bari and the province of Bari, in the region of Apulia, Italy. Trolleybuses served the city from 1939 to 1987, on a network of several routes.

In 1990, less than three years after closure of the last route, it was decided to reopen one route of the former system, route 4 to Carbonara di Bari, but very little further progress was made over the next few years. Following subsequent decisions, new trolleybuses were purchased in the late 1990s and additional vehicles in the mid-2000s, and physical work to reopen route 4 of the former system began in 2008 and was completed in 2011, but the project never came to fruition. Construction of the renewed wiring and substations along route 4 was completed in 2011, and eight new trolleybuses were in stock by 2009 – five built in 1997 and refurbished (after more than a dozen years in storage) around 2010 and three brand-new trolleybuses delivered in 2009–2010 – and the vehicles made test runs on the refurbished line in 2010 and later, but the rebuilt and re-equipped system never opened, and no explanation was given by local authorities.

Meanwhile, an extensive length of overhead trolley wiring that was never part of the project to reopen one route as trolleybus remained in place in the mid-2010s, despite being unused for decades, but in 2021 the city council approved its removal. That work remained unfinished in November 2024 but was ongoing, and additional removals took place during that month.