|
|
| Re: Photos from Recent Trip to Los Angeles and Phoenix Areas (80636) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > BusChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Photos from Recent Trip to Los Angeles and Phoenix Areas |
|
|
Posted by roscoman1986 on Wed Dec 19 12:28:01 2007, in response to Re: Photos from Recent Trip to Los Angeles and Phoenix Areas, posted by phxtusbusfan on Wed Dec 19 10:56:41 2007. The 1994 4000 series D40LFs operated with Veolia-Phoenix until 2002, when the remaining ones were transferred to Veolia-RPTA and First Transit. Some of them were transferred over in 1999 with the arrival of NABI buses 6211-6245. However, I remember riding a 1994 D40LF on the Blue Line as late as 2001. I remember these buses because my non-busfan friends got thrown off the bus for touching the tape way too much during the summer of 2001.The 1996 3700 series D40LFs operated with Veolia-Phoenix until 2004. At this time, the arrival of the RAPID buses caused Phoenix local buses to almost exclusively be used on local service. They could have replaced the RTS buses but instead Veolia-Phoenix transferred 28 of the 3700 series D40LFs to Laidlaw (First Transit) where they replaced 1990 Gillig 35-footers 961-967 (which I never rode on). Bus 3727 was an L40LF that was transferred to Veolia-RPTA because Laidlaw did not have LNG at the time. This bus was a real lemon and broke down constantly and I believe it may have been retired already. I remember riding the 3700s on the Blue Line because until I started driving to school in the 2004-2005 school year, I got either a D40LF or an RTS on the ride home almost every day. Ironically, now I miss the 1994 and 1996 D40LF buses considering there are so few of them left. |
|
|
|