A. Wong Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Yep, a pretty nice resort! We didn't ask for the room, just got it. Makes sense that more people want the ocean view. Yeah the bus we rode playing music was operated by Turicun. I am not sure what company operated the crappy bus we took back to the hotel but it was pretty bad. They were driving that thing hard, definitely some sort of truck chassis - rode like a school bus. And they drove with the doors open at 80km/h or higher. So much for interlock or safety! Link to post Share on other sites
TheAverageJoe Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Yep, a pretty nice resort! We didn't ask for the room, just got it. Makes sense that more people want the ocean view. Yeah the bus we rode playing music was operated by Turicun. I am not sure what company operated the crappy bus we took back to the hotel but it was pretty bad. They were driving that thing hard, definitely some sort of truck chassis - rode like a school bus. And they drove with the doors open at 80km/h or higher. So much for interlock or safety! I find that the routes that run from the Hotel zone into the poorer parts of Cancun. Those companies run the crappy buses which tend to have mostly hotel and shop workers from the hotel zones that need to run past the downtown bus terminal into the poorer parts of town. Link to post Share on other sites
Tom1122 Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Nice pictures. I liked the one of the D900. I don't suppose anyone's been to Mexico City. I know they've bought some ex ETS Flyer E800 trollies and at least one E800 from HSR. Link to post Share on other sites
tomsbuspage Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Here is an article with a photo of what appears to be a heavily rebuilt Flyer E800, taken in November 2007 according to the article: http://www.trolleymo...L=3%29&n_ID=474 Link to post Share on other sites
A. Wong Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 Those are ex-Edmonton Transit System! Link to post Share on other sites
armorand Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 They sure know how to torture a Flyer bus Link to post Share on other sites
bradfordbrian Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 I just got back from a trip to Mexico. Tijuana has no US transit buses in their system. Juarez runs school buses and a BRT service that seems way overbuilt, but does cross the border into Downtown El Paso. Link to post Share on other sites
TheAverageJoe Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 I just got back from a trip to Mexico. Tijuana has no US transit buses in their system. Juarez runs school buses and a BRT service that seems way overbuilt, but does cross the border into Downtown El Paso. Did they end up buying a large amount of Asian buses? I know they were testing a few a couple years back. Link to post Share on other sites
bradfordbrian Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Nope, they are a mixture of former school buses and mexican-built internationals and marcopolos. There's a huge "Hecho en Mexico" thing going on now. I think the transits all got junked due to pressure from the provincial government. Link to post Share on other sites
jfs1988 Posted September 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2013 Last month I went on a 2 week road trip to Guanajuato, its too bad my first set of photos got deleted because my Micro SD was acting up, so many cool buses, oh well. I gotta be happy with what I got. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9541922912/in/photostream/ Transportation and Construction Work on site. A bus crane in Chihuahua. . Only in Mexico. I even saw a bus being used as a food truck & another one as an office. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9552571224/in/photostream/ The new Irizar I5 motorcoach buses recently replaced older buses used for the Metropolitano commuter bus services. Leon is also testing a DINA articulated bus for its BRT service. I only got a small glimpse of it once, but wasnt able to photograph it or record it. Since they are only testing one unit, it is very rare to find. I tried for searching for it near the Mercado Aldama, but no luck. It started being tested a few months ago. http://leon.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/441f143ff8b275f4ff9127f096fb7d47 Also more transit buses in Leon are being equipped with LED headsigns. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9553517308/in/photostream/ This transit bus serves the state border adjacent cities of Gomez Palacio in Durango & Torreon in Coahuila. In the city of Chihuahua they constructing a Bus Rapid Transit system similar to the ones currently in other Mexican cities. I have no pictures or info on this. I made it to Chihuahua at night. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9553442612/in/photostream/ TransCalido #236 in Aguascalientes during early morning traffic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9550707719/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfs1988/9553495372/in/photostream/ Transportation for personnel of a workers union or something in the town of Cuencame, Durango. Link to post Share on other sites
jfs1988 Posted September 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2013 Its been 10 years since Leon, Guanajuato started its Optibus BRT service. New articulated buses will enter service & will have new colors. http://www.leon.gob.mx/leon/?q=node/113 They were testing a DINA Brighter articulated bus, but it looks like they went with a different manufacturer. Link to post Share on other sites
Benjamin Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 It's only natural that sooner or later all that influx of USA-made buses into Mexico would disappear eventually... the buses we loved so much now no longer meet emissions standards for TJ. This is similar to the case of how the last VW Beetles (of the classic, 1930s design) were taken off the streets of Mexico City. Mexico was the last market to have made the VW Beetle Classic, the final cars being made in 2003. ~Ben Link to post Share on other sites
98 Willowdale-Senlac Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Would mexico city get the new flyer XT40 for its older trolleybus replacement? Link to post Share on other sites
patfromigh Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 20 hours ago, Flyer E902 said: Would mexico city get the new flyer XT40 for its older trolleybus replacement? DINA lists a trolleybus in their line, the Ridder E. I would imagine Mexico City would like to buy local. I mean, that would be like some Canadian system skipping over New Flyer to buy a Chinese Bus. Oh wait... Link to post Share on other sites
northwesterner Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 23 hours ago, Flyer E902 said: Would mexico city get the new flyer XT40 for its older trolleybus replacement? No way they are paying that price for a new trolley bus. Besides, their current fleet, while worn as you might expect from a transit fleet in a developing country in a city of 22m people, isn't that old. Link to post Share on other sites
TheAverageJoe Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 On 5/21/2016 at 6:42 PM, patfromigh said: DINA lists a trolleybus in their line, the Ridder E. I would imagine Mexico City would like to buy local. I mean, that would be like some Canadian system skipping over New Flyer to buy a Chinese Bus. Oh wait... Guadalajara has some as I seen pics of them. Not sure how many they have. Link to post Share on other sites
XN40 Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 https://nextcity.org/features/view/tijuana-public-transportation-bus-taxis-new-bus-rapid-transit Here is a good article in English explaining Tijuana's new SITT (Sistema Integral de Transporte Tijuana). It talks about the new BRT with new stations and that the plan is to have SITT eventually replace the current bus system which some say is rather expensive and inefficient. What is also proposed are other routes that would offer BRT and some feeder routes. More routes will probably be added if they can work it out with the bus companies and SITT. This route will run on a schedule and should connect with San Ysidro or offer a short walk to it if you are connecting to San Diego. The new BRT (Ruta 1) will use Smart Cards, but there will be a cash payment option (for now). Light Rail is probably not going to happen, or not for a while as they first need to get the current system. I do know there is an empty rail line in Tijuana that connects to Tecate and other parts that could accommodate passenger rail service. The new Ruta 1 will run on a schedule and will use new buses that will run on Natural gas and perhaps Clean Diesel. If everything goes to plan, it should start service next month. Then again, some of the bus and taxi companies are not happy with SITT as it might ruin their business, but I think they will eventually adapt once the plan is to use SITT instead of the current system. . Maybe this is why the buses Link to post Share on other sites
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IRT_BMT_IND Posted October 6, 2016 Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 A lot of Latin American cities are trying to "regularize" their informal transit operations. Santiago, Bogota, and Panama City recently went through this. In those cities the authorities essentially bought some the independent bus operators into the new system and I suspect this will happen in Tijuana. Link to post Share on other sites
TheAverageJoe Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 I Know this is old but still ADL Wins Deal To Take High Capacity Transport To New Heights In Mexico City 90 E500's bought my Mexico City http://www.alexander-dennis.com/news/adl-wins-deal-to-take-high-capacity-transport-to-new-heights-in-mexico-city/ Link to post Share on other sites
captaintrolley Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Bump.. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
patfromigh Posted December 30, 2020 Report Share Posted December 30, 2020 So, where is STE Mexico City going to put all these new trolleybuses? I don't comprehend Spanish, so I turned on closed captioned and put the settings on auto translate English for the following video. From what I understand the construction of a new elevated trolleybus line is already underway, 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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