ns8401 Posted June 17, 2023 Report Share Posted June 17, 2023 12 minutes ago, dtwtransit said: Nope, just recently rewrapped in the new colors. Most of the rewrapped ones (including that one) are 2016s. I thought he meant the racetrack one… but yeah 2016… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 6/17/2023 at 1:40 AM, doglover44 said: Finally caught another Proterra today: #4026 is sitting at MacTerm. This one hasn't been seen in service... but #4024 hit the streets yesterday for the first time, on route 430. I'll see if I can track it down for a picture soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted August 13, 2023 Report Share Posted August 13, 2023 All four Proterras are out now: #4025 and #4026 both made their revenue debut on 7/26. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
140 Southshore Posted August 24, 2023 Report Share Posted August 24, 2023 Just announced during the BoD meeting -- Novi expansion and new Bloomfield Hills stops begin service on September 11. 68 new bus stops total will be added in Bloomfield Hills, Novi and Wixom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
140 Southshore Posted August 26, 2023 Report Share Posted August 26, 2023 September 11 service changes have officially been announced. 261 FAST Michigan: new stops added at Merriman/Van Born and at Michigan/Beech-Daly 280 Western Wayne Crosstown: time adjustments on all days, and headways changed from 60 to 75 minutes on weekends 305 Grand River: extended to Wixom, rerouted to use Grand River between Telegraph and 7 Mile 450 Woodward Local-Pontiac: new stop added at Woodward/Long Lake 462 FAST Woodward-Auburn Hills: new stop added at Woodward/Long Lake 525 Groesbeck: rerouted to use Gratiot instead of Beaconsfield between Masonic and 14 Mile 740 12 Mile: extended to Wixom on all days except Sunday 805 Grand River Park & Ride: extended to the Beck/12 Mile MDOT park & ride lot via Grand River, Novi Road, and 12 Mile This will be the first time SMART has served Novi and Bloomfield Hills since 1995, and the first time ever SMART has served Wixom. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted August 26, 2023 Report Share Posted August 26, 2023 The 280 changes will definitely be interesting. I've done the math on it and I'm not sure if they'll be able to keep the 280-305 interline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted September 6, 2023 Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 Schedules are up for most of the changed and extended routes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted October 10, 2023 Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 Some old-livery Gilligs are now being given the new logo on the rear. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
140 Southshore Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 The following SMART service expansions have been announced at today's TRU Transit Talk in Dearborn (effective dates may change): January 2024: new services to New Baltimore and downtown Romulus (potential revivals of the 567 and 202 respectively?) April 2024: introduction of route 492 and reroute and extension of route 790 Summer 2024: introduction of route 759 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted October 26, 2023 Report Share Posted October 26, 2023 On 10/24/2023 at 7:41 PM, 140 Southshore said: January 2024: new services to New Baltimore and downtown Romulus (potential revivals of the 567 and 202 respectively?) Got the info on these: New Baltimore will be a 560 extension, and Romulus will be a reroute of the 280. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted October 26, 2023 Report Share Posted October 26, 2023 SMART has rolled out a couple of new special liveries on their buses. One is a variant of the new standard livery, featuring the photos of each terminal's fixed-route and paratransit Operator of the Year. The colors seem better on these, which makes me think they were, in fact, painted, rather than just a wrap. I imagine there's one Gillig and one minibus per terminal in this new scheme; so far I know of #3813 (Macomb), #3924 (Wayne), and #35022 (Wayne). They also have a new series of "25 Year Club" buses, updated with the expanded group of longtime employees and the new logo. It's appeared on an articulated bus (I believe #4014, but they wrapped over the fleet number) so far, though I'm not sure if there are others in this series. Last year's "25 Year Club" wraps are still out. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 #38060 is OakTerm's Operator of the Year minibus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnitedTransit Posted November 10, 2023 Report Share Posted November 10, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 6:56 PM, dtwtransit said: Some old-livery Gilligs are now being given the new logo on the rear. Coach number 3652 I believe. Were there any other reports on this coach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted November 10, 2023 Report Share Posted November 10, 2023 2 hours ago, UnitedTransit said: Coach number 3652 I believe. Were there any other reports on this coach? It is 3652. What kind of report are you thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted November 12, 2023 Report Share Posted November 12, 2023 One of the elusive hybrid Gilligs appeared at SFTC on a driver training run this Monday; it's the first time I've seen one run in over a year. On 10/26/2023 at 7:09 PM, dtwtransit said: They also have a new series of "25 Year Club" buses, updated with the expanded group of longtime employees and the new logo. It's appeared on one articulated bus (I believe #4014, but they wrapped over the fleet number) so far, though I'm not sure if there are others in this series. It seems they did wrap one Flyer from each terminal; here's #4020 from MacTerm, seen today on the 510. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 New run pick next week, with a few changes: 280 rerouted via downtown Romulus on weekdays only- weekends keep q75 service and existing routing 560 extended back to downtown New Baltimore, with every third bus on weekdays and every other on weekends continuing east along 23 Mile, the rest keeping the current terminus 160 Wildlife Refuge branch discontinued outright, with time changes to the remaining route 780 frequency improved to q50 on weekdays (to improve its OTP, which is currently one of the worst in the system)- will now run 4 buses at once, likely 2 Macomb + 2 Oakland 740 stop at Twelve Oaks reconfigured; for pedestrian safety, westbound buses will make a u-turn to serve the eastbound stop, and then u-turn to head back west #4005 is the WayneTerm 25 Year Club artic. Still no sign of an operator-of-the-year bus from OakTerm. A few Gilligs are still floating around with the old serif lettering on the windows. #3824 has made the rounds lately. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
140 Southshore Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 11 hours ago, dtwtransit said: #4005 is the WayneTerm 25 Year Club artic. Here's #4005 wearing the wrap on the 125 on December 29, 2023: 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 New headsign programs out for 280: the route name has been changed from "WAYNE WESTERN CROSSTOWN" to simply "WESTERN WAYNE," the southern terminus was changed to say "Evans Terminal" (having previously said North Terminal; the terminal was renamed in 2022), and "via Romulus" was added to weekday trips. And here's the new headsign for the 560 to New Baltimore: There are a few buses floating around with old headsign programs; on occasion you'll still see a Wixom-bound 740 reading "to Farmington Hills" on the front. That oddball #3712, which had old names for a lot of routes (and showed 261 as a RefleX) has been fixed, however. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 New headsign programs are also out for 430 and 805. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted January 29 Report Share Posted January 29 SMART's new cutaways are Glaval Universals on E-450 chassis, purchased from Tesco. #43001-43024, in Community Transit colors, are currently sitting at OakTerm waiting for distribution to operators. 40 new cutaways and 19 new vans - likely bearing the new gray-and-red scheme - are in SMART's possession and are slated to enter service on Connector this spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 21 hours ago, dtwtransit said: SMART's new cutaways are Glaval Universals on F-450 chassis, purchased from Tesco. #43001-43024, in Community Transit colors, are currently sitting at OakTerm waiting for distribution to operators. 40 new cutaways and 19 new vans - likely bearing the new gray-and-red scheme - are in SMART's possession and are slated to enter service on Connector this spring. Those are E450’s for what it’s worth. You can get F-series cutaways so it’s worth distinguishing. A couple of the county dial-a-ride services in northern michigan have F550 derived cutaways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 On 1/29/2024 at 11:04 PM, ns8401 said: Those are E450’s for what it’s worth. You can get F-series cutaways so it’s worth distinguishing. A couple of the county dial-a-ride services in northern michigan have F550 derived cutaways. Typo, sorry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 A couple of SMART's buses have a "!! GO LIONS !!" exposure still running. #3703-3704 (Oak) for sure. #3703 is newly wrapped in FAST colors- no others recently redone afaik. There aren't enough FAST-wrapped buses to cover current FAST service nowadays, so each FAST line will usually have one or two plain buses at a given time. WayneTerm has been using their 25 Year and Zoom to the Zoo units on 261. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 #3008 ran on 495 last night; this was the first time I've seen one of the hybrid Gilligs in revenue service in over a year. I'm hoping it'll make the rounds so I can get better pictures. This one didn't have the new Clever LCD screen installed (and its amber dot-matrix wasn't working)- so I'd assume the same is true of the rest hybrids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtwtransit Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 SMART has a new wrap for Black History Month, honoring Granville T. Woods, a notable Black inventor credited with inventing the third rail, among other innovations in transit and electrical engineering. https://www.facebook.com/smartmovesus/videos/granville-t-woods-was-often-referred-to-as-the-black-edison-due-to-his-numerous-/330145656681124/ It's out on #3926 (Macomb) at least- I'll be on the lookout for it to appear on other terminals' units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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