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Re: NJT NABI buses will start to arrive in South Jersey |
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Posted by rionOne on Thu Sep 3 13:12:47 2009, in response to Re: NJT NABI buses will start to arrive in South Jersey, posted by R33/R36 mainline on Tue Sep 1 22:04:07 2009. Don't sleep on the Orion VIIs either. Despite all of the MAJOR teething issues when the Orion VIIs first came on the scene, they have performed WELL past my expectations and I believe past a few others as well.The New Next Generation Orions, IMO, ride 100 times smoother than the Older Generation. I D K about anything and those NGs are still too relatively new to form any solid conclusion. Me personally, I wait until at least 5 years before saying a bus is great. 5 year is pretty much midlife and at that point you can truly say ok the bus is good. Now, in respect to New Jersey's NABIs, I honestly believe that over time, the issues with these buses will be ironed out. Thanks to NJDOT and some of NJT's overzealousness in customizations in making buses similar to the MCI D-Series Cruisers, these buses pretty much had to be redesigned from the ground up. Thus pretty much making this a whole new model. I do not know to what degree this bus was test or whether it saw time in Altoona because since it’s marketed as the Model 416 (40-SFW), an already test model, it may not have had to see Altoona. Altoona is pretty much the it place for a new bus, it pretty much puts a 12-year life span of abuse on a bus in an EXTREMELY short period of time to test its worthiness to the industry. Now TO A DEGREE, I understand NJT's concept, have all the buses similar in operation thus cutting down on parts inventory. That is why the MCI Cruisers came in with that new left-side dash setup; it matched the Novas to cut down on training. I also think that this is why the order is coming in so slowly because NJT is working with NABI to correct these issues as they come along. Case in point, remember 5201 with its doggish CAT C-9? Well, that is why the order is now coming in with CAT- C-13 engines. I've heard that NABI's customer service is really good. Now Bee-Line's NABI 40-LFW Hybrids are freaking great. Solid feeling really nice buses so far... Regards, Trevor Logan, Jr. www.ttmg.org |
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