Blue Hybrid Bus

On 8/8/2022 at 7:39 AM, Rogmor said:

On 8/8/2022 at 12:08 AM, Matt Demers said:

For the first good half of the day, nothing older than 28-036 was showing up on the tracker. I found that very odd. Was there some glitch today?

Because of the very warm weather,the driver's union made pressure to get on service as much as possible climatised buses.

I checked what buses Anjou dispatched last Sunday and less than 5 buses were diesels. Virtually nothing but hybrids on that day and it was very humid too so the dispatching was very intentionally done!

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Also forgot to mention but last week I took 26-028 on the 150! Has the triple leather seats as @West Island Transit Fan pointed out. Also, the side Axion side was glitching as "En Transit" was misaligned to the bottom instead of the center.

SN 37-099 was on the 164 doing an all day run.

27-018 was on the 33 yesterday, not tracking again.

30-098 was on the 174 Friday evening. It hasn't tracked since December 2021!

22 hours ago, En Transit said:

Just spotted 42-004 on Rue Cousens side of CT St. Laurent  

I passed by CT Saint-Laurent and saw 42-004 there as well. No exterior differences compared to the 41-series so far. Although I wonder: 41-134 was spotted by @MTL66 a few months ago. Has that unit been renumbered perhaps?

2 hours ago, MontrealBusFan said:

I guess we should start a delivery watch for the 42-XXX since they're now beginning to arrive at garages

Opened the thread.

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FR 31-160 was parked outside CT Saint-Laurent.

This thread is for posting sightings of the new STM 42-XXX (Novabus LFS HEV series), whether it has been delivered or spotted in service.

A couple of 42-XXX units were already spotted at the Saint-Laurent garage recently, to be entered in service soon. So far, there does not seem to be any exterior differences between the 41-XXX and 42-XXX.

At the moment, the number of 42-series that will be delivered to the STM has yet to be confirmed.

For a roster of the 42-series, visit FleetStats: https://fleetstatsapp.com/fleet/stm/2022

(Ex-LS/SN/SL and now MR) 30-004 was on the 55 this afternoon. It was on a renfort run.

AN 39-076 was on the 51.

28-120 was on the 209, not tracking. For the whole day, the 209 was exclusively served by 2nd gens.

SN 31-217 was on highway 40 eastbound (around Des Sources). According to its run data, it just came back from the 200 renfort).

SD 30-164 was on the 128 yesterday. I think this is an ex-SN unit as I vaguely remember Stinson having 30-155 to 30-165 back in 2014 or so.

MR 30-057 was on the 128, front destination sign displays "Saint-Lanrent" and is aligned to the left instead of being centered.

SN 37-059 was on the 97.

AN 39-048 was parked outside the Saint-Denis garage. Nothing but a wave of blue at Saint-Denis.

SD 31-013 was on the 33 during the PM rush.

Today I rode 0412 on the 26 to Montmorency. I certainly enjoyed riding an ISC again especially since the STM retired all of theirs.

SL 40-163 was on the 11 with what seems to have a new front already (front fleet number in bright blue like 38-080)

SD 29-009 was on the 968 yesterday.

May 5:

• Spotted 31-084 on the 171 not tracking.

May 6:

• SD 31-079 was on the 215, ex-SL bus!
• 31-121 was En Transit with the non-inverted display.

2 hours ago, Frozen Yogurt said:

Spotted 33-816 (not tracking) and 33-830 on the 121 today (gee). Seems like 33-830 replaced 30-830... not a good week at Legendre at all it seems like. I got 30-876 later in the day.

To add on to this, today I saw 30-814 getting towed at Côte-Vertu/Marlatt (westbound) at around 20:10.

LS 30-037 was on the 51 this afternoon.

SN 31-195 was on the 51 this morning.

31-162 was on the 125, not tracking and it already has the bike rack installed.

Spotted 30-005 at the Dorval terminus, no luggage racks as expected.

40-244 was on the 196 LS extra.

30-096 was on the 141 this afternoon, the bus stopped tracking earlier in the morning.

MR 30-068 was on the 49.

Here's some more evidence: last year I rode 37-021 on the 171 and it made some weird whiny noise while moving (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kskTnodWlfw). It's also like this on 38-050 and this is a SL bus!

I also rode a 37-0XX on the 164 SN last autumn, on idle there was some kind of fan noise which was really loud.

8 hours ago, M106 said:

I was waiting for them to remove some of the irrelevant 31-xxx like 31-070-71, 31-094-95, 99, 168... It didn't happen

I dunno, at this point the STM is just sending scattered buses (sometimes in small random ranges) to whatever CT has the space for more buses. You probably won't like SD with their very scattered buses haha. Your wish will come true... in about 5 years!

The 14:09 215-O departure (LE extra) from Côte-Vertu was not tracking last Friday. Turned out to be 41-089 .