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Driving on the highway past Port Kells today i saw a few plain white Grande West Vicinity CNGs. I‘m guessing these might be for BC Transit?

My guess would maybe be the Grande West Vicinity CNG’s for BC Transit?

XN40s 1148 and 1149 have entered service in Whistler. D40LF 9750 has joined the other D40LFs and Darts i previously mentioned at the scrap yard in Squamish

Yes they are indeed Luminator signs. I was actually reading up on that last night as i was in Victoria over Christmas and saw 9437 several times. I came across a post on the Luminator twitter page

16203 aswell

XN40 1142 has returned to Whistler. Also to Whistler is their first new XN40 1148. A newspaper article in the local paper says this order of buses has the new white LED destination signs, driver barriers already installed, aswell as newer bike racks which will eventually be rolled out province wide to accommodate bikes with larger wheels. D40LF 9846 has also been transfered to Whister for storage

Stumbled across 8110, 9754, 9755, 9052, and 9062 at a scrap yard in Squamish this afternoon

I’ve seen a few of the West Van 2012 XD40s with them aswell (1203 and i believe 1205 and 1208 were the other 2 if i remember correctly) i also saw 14037 with them yesterday

Up in Whistler today and saw 9818 and 9820 with all of the Victoria advertisements removed and parked with the XN40s which makes me think they will be used for the ski season this year since a few of the newer XN40s were transfered out. D40LF 9750 is also parked at the back of the garage. I also saw dart 9062 on a tow truck heading south between Whistler and Squamish which was the last dart stored in Whistler by the looks of it

That must be why i saw Whistlers 1140 in Kamloops this past weekend then

It is indeed 1614, just spotted it near horseshoe bay

Ah ha it finally left Whistler, they had the seasonal service reductions start a couple weeks ago aswell as another reduction happening after this weekend. Keep an eye out for D40LF 9820 potentially aswell since i saw it being towed down the Sea to Sky Highway a couple weeks ago. My guess would be that its headed to Victoria but i’m not 100% sure

I read an article on BC Transit’s website and it mentioned that these will be the 30’ version and that there will be 34 total. It doesn’t say exactly where they’re going but it mentions the new transit facilities in Campbell River, Cowichan Valley, and Abbotsford being CNG equiped though i doubt any of these will go to Abbotsford. Also maybe Nanaimo and Kamloops to replace community shuttles?

Yeah, i was just confirming the new numbers

Ended up riding 1613 into downtown today and it showed up on t-comm as 16132