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Re: Kicking it old school--bus pics from the 80s and 90s |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 25 12:34:15 2007, in response to Re: Kicking it old school--bus pics from the 80s and 90s, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 25 12:23:25 2007. Oh noes! Teh bus yards!! Call Homeland Security! :)  I lived in Gardena from 1983 until I moved to So. Florida in mid-1998. This is the yard of the local agency, Gardena Municipal Bus Lines, which was created in 1940, when Pacific Electric abandonded the Redondo Beach via Gardena and the San Pedro via Torrance lines without bus replacement. Originally they only ran to Vermont and 116th St to connect with the LARy U line, but eventually they extended all the way to downtown L. A. This yard on Van Ness Ave and 154th St, is supposed to be replaced with a larger yard on Western Ave & 139th St (a few blocks north of where I lived in Gardena)  The main reason GMBL is getting a new yard is because the current one only holds 50 buses, and GMBL has 48 or 49 in its fleet. That meant when new buses arrived (like 770 that arrived in mid-1997), they had to park in a lot next door until the older buses left the property. 770 was a Nova RTS-06 with DDEC Series 50 and I think a ZF transmission. GMBL received 21 buses in 1997--the first 7 mid-year (754-759, 770 (the 760 series was taken by 9 1988 Flxible Metros (760-768) and one (yes, one) 1990 TMC RTS-06, 769)), and 14 more at the end of the year (790-799, 701-704). This allowed the retirement of the 1981 and 1983 GMC RTS-04s, and put the Flxibles into school commuter service only, though occasionally one would appear on a regular route. Now the Flxibles and 769 are retired (along with 4 ex-Long Beach Transit 1990 TMCs acquired in the early 2000s), replaced by 15 (705-719) New Flyer DE40LFs (or are they GE40LFs, I forget. Eddie?) |
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