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Posted by roscoman1986 on Wed Dec 5 08:27:51 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Phoenix Transit System, posted by phxtusbusfan on Wed Dec 5 00:56:40 2007. Yep, the early 1990s were great from what I see. I regret not being a busfan back then especially with the diversity of the equipment and how fast some of it went.The Flxible New Looks lasted until 1994 and then were retired. The AM Generals lasted until 1996 and then were retired. However, 1998 was the hardest year for busfans as 35 MAN artics (including the 1979 MAN artics and 1984 MAN artics) were withdrawn from service, as well as the Flxible Metros and some of the 1979 RTS buses. They did this in order to make the entire fleet wheelchair accessable at the expense of removing articulated buses from the fleet, and the 1983 Flxible buses were inaccessable. From what I hear they rebuilt some 1979 RTS buses and they survived until 2002 (!). Too bad in 1998 they removed 35 artics from the fleet and put the remaining ones on East Valley express routes. Very few crosstown trips in Phoenix from 1998-2004 used artics. In 2004, they got the East Valley routes taken over so the (by then D60LF) artics could be reassigned to busy crosstown routes. Only this year was Phoenix able to increase their articulated bus fleet to 50 artics and now is at an all-time high (including the 10 60-BRTs). However, for years they had to make do with 21 artics down from a high of 56. |
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