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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.
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.
Retired on April 28, 2021. Being used as a parts bus. 1504 – Retired in Dec 2019. Used as a parts bus prior to sale. Listed for auction in July 2021. 1505 - All white with red stripe, blue numbers, and blue logo. Retired on May 7, 2021. Being used as a parts bus. 1506 – Retired on October 29, 2020. Used as a parts bus prior to sale.
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 ...
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.
In 1984, following a fire in a Model 870 NYCTA bus number 411, David L. Gunn, on only his fifth day on the job with the MTA, ordered the Grumman 870 fleet within New York City off the road for the final time (the units for MSBA built in 1981, owned by Nassau County (NY), as well as the units built for the five private companies in the Borough ...
The buses were eventually returned to Flxible, and were rebuilt and resold to Queen City Metro and New Jersey Transit. Grumman blamed the problems with the NYCTA 870s on NYCTA's poor maintenance practices at the time, despite the fact that transit operations in Chicago , Connecticut Transit , Houston , Los Angeles and Orange County, California ...
The first battery-electric bus entered service in February 2022. [31] Under the Zero-Emission Bus Rollout Plan published in February 2021, 54 articulated buses will be the first production BEBs for Muni and that first purchase is planned for 2027. [32]: 18 The last diesel-electric hybrid buses will leave service by 2037.