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The 3580s are going to be retired soon. Some of the 3600 series Orions are retiring and becoming training buses.

NABI 1861 has been converted from Diesel to Diesel-Electric Hybrid

We did, there was an order for 5 of them. I’m unsure of the retire date. Also, in other news, one of Sunline’s XHE40 is touring various cities, and one of the stops is Houston!

Unforuntately, what’s left of that order are being used for training. There are none in Revenue service.

Houston is ordering 20 NOVA LFSe+.

https://www.proterra.com/press-release/capital-metro-electric-bus-procurement/

We have 14 new LRVs coming in soon. The contract was modified in august to include wifi already.

The 30 footers Specifically.

METRO is demoing a Proterra ZX5 Bus.

https://www.roadsbridges.com/houston-metro-wins-grant-develop-fmvss-compliant-autonomous-bus metro wins 1.5 million dollar grant from the FTA to develop an electric automated mid-sized bus.

Blue Line Schematics from Downtown to Airport!

To Clarify NFI has ONLY AfterMarket Part rights. They do not have name rights OR Manufacturing/Design rights. Thank you.

Does anybody still operate any of these Orions? I’m not sure who would if anybody did. I know most Orions are getting to their End of Life.

Yay! For Project Connect passing! I’m just really hoping they fix the wonky ness along the redline in terms of running time and frequency. It’s so weird to me how it runs.

Can someone explain the situation between DDOT and SMART? And why there’s two Transit Agencies instead of one?