cleowin

Yes XT40 & XT60 as well, i missed it! I dont want an all electric fleet as proposed.. it’d be boring, you’d expect the same bus everywhere, always preferred variety

What id like to see for future bus orders by depot: VTC: Battery Electric (XE40 or Nova LFS-E), Hybrid (XDE40/Nova HEV BAE) BTC: XD40 , XD60 / XDE60 / XE60 PTC: XD60, XDE60, XN40, XN60 HTC: XD40, XN40, Nova HEV BAE, XDE40, Enviro500, Nova LFS-S RTC: XD40, XE40, Nova LFS-E, Enviro500, Nova LFS-S STC: XD40, XN40, XDE60, XE60, Nova LFS-S for all diesel/cng, id prefer allison transmissions

Hence why 3 additional novas moved to htc

That will require an additional 2-3 busses from htc?

they're only 10 years old, i dont see why they'd retire them this soon

It's Translink's version of BRT : )

So with the new proposal, the 96 B-Line will be there indefinitely since LRT was cancelled?

For future diesel orders (only suburban I know), it would be nice to have a XD40 Suburban option with Allison B400R transmission. I've listened to XD40 videos with that combo and they sound close to our LFR's, though quieter.

Do they sound like our other LFS buses?

7115 is dead guys, on the htc b/o tracks per western canadian trasportation on fb.

I want allison transmissions again

I think all the d40lf’s will be retired with this nova bae order? Considering there’s nothing on replacement in this doc?

https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/governance_and_board/board_minutes_and_reports/2018/December/2018_12_06_Public_Board_Meeting_Report_Package.pdf Some notes on Bus Procurement 2019: 54 Conventional buses to be purchased as 'expansion units' 2020: 68 Coventional buses to be purchased as 'expansion units', 25 Orion V replacement buses

And this is why i cant see all the d60lf’s being retired even with these 63 units coming into service. If btc gets all the units, i suspect that btc could actually send about 10 DE60LFR’s to STC instead of pctc, that would increase stc’s units up to 31 artics, and it would mean that none of PTC’s D60LF’s will be retired.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QATxfcSBCNxTo69ScBB5o1OXoG2Vt43TKmfDn0N5h_4/edit#gid=1232686809 See my doc for fleet allocation predictions for all these expansion / replacement units