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In 1978, Metro was the first large transit agency to order high-capacity articulated buses (buses with a rotating joint). [11] Today, King County Metro has one of the largest articulated fleets in North America (second only to MTA New York City Transit) and articulated buses account for about 42% of the agency's fleet.
A restored GM "New Look" bus of the former New York Bus Service (now the MTA). The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus.
Sold to Gardena Municipal Bus Lines 2915-2918 in 2013. 9801-9813 1998 NFI D40LF: Detroit Diesel Series 50: Allison B400R: Retired in 2014 & 2016. 9803, 9804 & 9809 to Petaluma Transit 43, 42, 41 in early 2014. 9806 retired in 2014 and was auctioned off as a non-runner on June 28, 2014; [13] bought by Complete Coach Works in Los Angeles, CA for ...
School bus USA Classic: Single-deck GM Canada (1982-1987) MCI (1987-1993) NovaBus (1993-1997) 1982 to 1997 Used or retired buses refurbished by Dupont Industries since 2007 Canada USA Classic 2000: Single deck Carpenter Body Company: 1999 to 2001 School bus United States Classic TC60-102N: Single deck Motor Coach Industries: 1987 to 1993 ...
Darryl Irick, MTA Bus Company President, drives #5241 out of the Michael J. Quill Depot on May 6, 2019. On April 30, 2019, the NYCTA retired the last of these RTS buses from regular passenger service with 1998 NovaBus RTS-06 # 5108 having the honor of doing the final curtain call on the B3 bus route in Brooklyn, New York.
A total of 2,656 buses, including buses in Atlanta, Chicago, Connecticut, Houston, Los Angeles and Orange County, California needed to be fixed. [ 4 ] Eventually, Grumman was forced to sell the line to General Automotive Corporation in 1983 for $41 million, a 25-percent loss after developing the "Flxible Metro" which addressed all of the ...
Two buses were originally preserved but were scrapped around 2013–2014. 2000 Orion Bus Industries Orion VI (06.501) 2000–2099 2012 First low floor buses for WMATA. Suddenly retired after engine fires took place on two buses in a span of five days. [20] [21] Orion Bus Industries Orion V (05.501) 2100–2231 2018–2020
A private operator owns a 1994 NovaBus Classic that was retired from Quebec City. Utah Transit Authority has retained MCI Classic 9066 as part of their preservation fleet. [2] All 16 of the articulated buses were scrapped upon retirement, but some parts from the Halifax Transit fleet were saved for use on their remaining refurbished Classics ...