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Posted by roscoman1986 on Tue Dec 23 10:52:43 2008, in response to Join my Valley Metro facebook, posted by dontwalkhand on Mon Dec 15 14:22:48 2008. For all you Valley Metro (Phoenix) fans, here is what I have seen prior to the great changeover on 12/29/08. Remember that tis is subject to change and will be confirmed next week:Phoenix: New Flyers 8046-8050 have been switched from Phoenix-South to Phoenix-West. Expect some 2004 D60LF to go as well. So far, the highest 2008 D60LF that I have seen is 8056. These buses are almost identical to the 2007 D60LFs right down to the fact that they are ALREADY tagged up inside (despite being in service very briefly). The only differences that I noticed are the exterior cameras and the buses have the "priority seating" stickers like the 2006 and 2007 C40LFRs on the windows (rather than on the ad racks). At least they are at the front of the bus unlike on the 2006 C40LFRs (where by the rear door there are stickers that state that the front of the bus is for disabled people only despite being near the middle of the bus). The buses still have the same seats and no LED lighting. I did not notice if the walls were vandal-resistant or not, but I doubt it in this case. Tempe and RPTA. The bottom line is, Tempe cannot handle CNG buses because they cannot fuel them Already, the 2006 C40LFRs have been transferred back to the RPTA and I saw 6401 and 6402 back on Route 30 with RPTA stickers. I don't know if the others have been transferred back as well (6406-6410 etc) and I have not seen bus 6647 since two weeks ago. In return, the Tempe fleet has become more interesting with at least some of the 1998 NABIs 6157-6163, 1999 NABIs 6246-6253 (6254-6255 were already at Tempe), and 1999 NABI 35-LFWs 6256-6261 (saw one of them on route 56-Priest, which was a nice surprise) transferred to Tempe! These buses have not had their headsigns reprogrammed yet, but at least some of them claim City of Tempe ownership. The only thing about this is it seems that the RPTA is going to have a shortage of buses with them giving most of their LNG NABIs to Tempe because Tempe cannot fuel the 2006 C40LFRs. Given the fact that the RPTA is getting route 77 and Tempe is getting route 81 so that Tempe can operate most of the Scottsdale services (not to mention express bus expansion with the RPTA), we will have to see what happens. |
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