MiExpress

On next week's Public Works Committee agenda is a report to authorize the purchase of 18 60 foot replacement buses at a cost of $26.3M. No vendor or propulsion type was stated, but given current trends likely CNG artics which would mean New Flyer XN60s. The report states a 18 month lead time so the order will not show up until 2027, and will replace the 2015 XN60s. https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=467003

October 27, 2025 Service Changes 2 HURONTARIO - Increased weekday PM peak frequency from 11 to 10 minutes (+1 PM peak bus) 5 DIXIE - Reduced weekday PM peak frequency from 14 to 15 minutes (-1 PM peak bus) 35 EGLINTON - Reduced weekday AM and PM peak frequency from 9 to 12 minutes (-4 AM buses, -5 PM buses) 51 TOMKEN - Increased weekday PM peak frequency from 14 to 13 minutes (+1 PM peak bus) 66 MCLAUGHLIN - Reduced weekday AM peak frequency from 8 to 9 minutes and weekday midday frequency from 10 to 12 minutes (-1 AM peak and -1 midday bus) 71 SHERIDAN - Additional trips WB 7:42 AM westbound from Kipling and 5:50 PM eastbound from Plymouth 107 MALTON EXPRESS - Improved service on all service days. Weekday service - Increased weekday midday frequency from 20-23 to 15 minutes and weekday early evening frequency from 24 to 15 minutes (+2 weekday midday buses, +3 weekday evening buses. Expand Saturday span of service from current 10AM-7PM to 8AM-9PM; core Saturday frequency increased from 28 to 20 minutes (+2 Saturday buses) with 30 minute frequency in the early morning and evening. Reintroduce Sunday service which was cancelled in March 2020, operating from 8AM-9PM. Core frequency will be 20 minutes with 30 minutes frequency in the early morning and evening (+6 Sunday buses). 135 EGLINTON EXPRESS - NEW Express route operating between Winston Churchill Station and Renforth Station, using the transitway between Dixie Station and Renforth Station. Stop locations will be Glen Erin, Erin Mills, Mississauga Road, Creditview, Mavis, Confederation/McLaughlin, Hurontario, Central Parkway/Kennedy, Tomken, Dixie Station, Tahoe Station, Etobicoke Creek Station, Spectrum Station, Orbitor Station. Route 135 will use Burgoyne, Crestlawn, Fewster and Encino to access the transitway just west of Dixie Station. Service will be during weekday peak periods only at 12 minutes frequency (+9 AM and PM peak buses)

The following pages need to be deleted: https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Central_Coast_Area_Transit https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=CCAT&redirect=no https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Category:Central_Coast_Area_Transit_fleet The reasoning is that Central Coast Area Transit was simply a branding name for fixed route service used by the San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (SLORTA) between 1990 and 2003. The history section SLORTA page has been updated to properly reflect this, as well as updates and page renamings on other relevant pages.

39 of the 50 Orions saw service this past week; it's a bit of a stretch to say so many are dead. It is common for buses to be parked outside CP waiting for parts or shop space for whatever needs servicing (including needing MTO inspection or the state of good repair inspection that happens in between the MTO inspections). With Orions specifically, there can be buses sitting around waiting for parts with long lead times. New Flyer took over Orion parts years ago and it's now gotten to the point where for some specific proprietary Orion parts, they are no longer regularly stocked by New Flyer Parts and are produced on demand only. Therefore it is at the mercy of whatever fabrication or machine shop is fabricating the part and the wait can be weeks to months.

Some of the ex-TriMet D40LFRs are already in service at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) according to this post from reddit.

A new CNG bus purchased today in Canada would likely cost a minimum of $900,000 to $950,000, and over $1 million outfitted to specific Calgary specifications. The days of $500,000 buses are long gone; even basic specification diesel New Flyer Xcelsiors being purchased by other systems this year are running a minimum of $850,000 to $900,000, not including CAD/AVL or camera equipment. The city's website actually includes some useful information about the electric bus order. The unit cost per electric bus is stated as $1.72 million; this is in line with what other agencies are paying, when factoring in that cost may be inclusive of all sales taxes. That means the 120 buses account for $206M of the $443M total available funding, and a good chunk of the rest is going to facilities expansion/upgrades and equipment. That said, I definitely agree on the concerns about cost efficiency and the spin the city is trying to put on the entire thing is ridiculous. Not only the spin about it being a cheaper option due to external funding, but also the statement about them being used on short/peak only routes which sounds like a quiet admission of the limitations of electric buses. A $1.72M asset with these type of restrictions in a transit context just negatively impacts both operating and capital costs.

The plate for 634 is 753 6BM and I have edited the wiki page to reflect this.

There's currently no layover scheduled for the 31 at Long Branch, the route actually services a stop on-street on Lakeshore and does not stop within the loop. However the current southbound runtime from Dixie Mall is ridicuously padded with 14-18 minutes compared to 8-10 minutes for route 5 using the exact same routing.

The Q2 2026 delivery timeframe for the hydrogen buses was taken from a presentation done by MiWay staff to a city committee last month. Link to presentation (note, the schematic on slide 5 is not necessarily representative of the final MiWay bus configuration). As for the purchasing of the buses, Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Tender (RFT) are different procurement processes used. Mississauga has used RFT for bus purchases since 2017, prior to that they used RFP. However the 10 hydrogen buses are being purchased using single source procurement as New Flyer was the only hydrogen bus manufacturer available in Canada. Therefore, no RFP or RFT was issued for the hydrogen buses. The city's purchasing bylaw allows for single source procurement for specific reasons including only one supplier available. City staff received approval to begin the procurement of the hydrogen buses back in September 2024. Link to report (recommendations 2 and 5). Despite this report, nothing has been purchased as there have been no procurements for buses issued since then nor have any bus purchases been listed in the city's monthly procurement reports. At the 2025 budget meetings city staff seemed to indicate that the next bus order would be delayed to 2026 to help relieve some pressures from the capital budget.

ENC through it's Hawaii dealer (Soderholm Bus Sales) did bid on a recent Maui Bus order, but their price was much higher than Gillig. For a 35' transit bus ENC bid $860K compared to Gillig's $841K; and for a 40' suburban configuration bus ENC bid $872K compared to Gillig's 818K.

Watertown CitiBus is acquiring Centro 2011 Orion VII 1106 through a FTA Transfer according to the most recent Centro board agenda. It apepars Watertown wants to phase out the ARBOC cutaway buses due to unreliability, and have a fleet of fully heavy duty buses. The Orion from Centro will help them maintain service until a order of new buses arrives. According to a city newsletter, they're looking at purchasing 3 new 30' buses in the near future, and did have a demo with Centro 2416, a 30' Gillig LF.

According to the May RGRTA board agenda, they are purchasing up to 5 used 40' buses. No indication where they are being purchased from or whether as is or fully refurbished.

There are still a number of them that are awaiting license plates and pre delivery inspection (PDI) which is being done at the PDI vendor before delivery to MiWay; given this, not all of them have been delivered to MiWay yet.

Brampton awarded a one-year contract to New Flyer for delivery of transit buses at $81.7M. Unfortunately no breakdown of bus types or quantity. This is in addition to the 38 Nova LFS and 10 LFSe+ that will be delivered this year.

Simcoe County is planning to purchase 4 New Flyer XD40 buses through the Metrolinx TPI. Originally 4 35’ Vicinity buses were on order prior to the bankruptcy of Vicinity. These 4 buses are expected to be delivered in late 2026 or early 2027 given current manufacturing lead times. They will be used on routes 3 (Barrie-Orillia) and 4 (Wasaga-Collingwood) as they are the busiest routes in the network. Route 7 will be launched upon delivery of these 4 buses using 30/35’ buses reallocated from routes 3 and 4. Cost is approximately $935K + HST plus $100K allowance for CONSAT AVL/GPS and branding/livery. Last year the county awarded a contract for refurbishment of the 4 2018 Vicinity buses (6001-6004) to Skydome Bus but I am unaware of the current status of that project. https://simcoe.civicweb.net/document/147790/CCW 2025-095 - LINX Transit Bus Order.pdf?handle=1B44B730F10344EDB1A2AF0DB8797923