GORDOOM Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 How would this work, though, with the Nova LFS' tinted body panels? How would they redo the ExpressBus livery for that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranslinkKid Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 Here's my drawing of the Novabus LFS in the suburban livery. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buizelbus Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 8 hours ago, TranslinkKid said: Here's my drawing of the Novabus LFS in the suburban livery. Thank you, much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDOOM Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Any update on when this is actually going to be announced? Or are the boys in Sapperton still banging out details with Flyer and/or Nova? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted September 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 On 9/20/2017 at 7:26 AM, GORDOOM said: Any update on when this is actually going to be announced? Or are the boys in Sapperton still banging out details with Flyer and/or Nova? all I have is starting with all 2018 bus orders, Safety barriers are either installed or ready to install upon delivery. -------------------------------- UPDATE: See first post for confirmations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buizelbus Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Any news on which manufacturer? NFI or Nova or split? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando737 Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 From what I've heard the CNG's will be from New Flyer and the hybrids from Nova which will be BAE. @Express691 was there any mention of Suburban's? Supposed to be about 25 Nova's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted September 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 1 minute ago, Brando737 said: From what I've heard the CNG's will be from New Flyer and the hybrids from Nova which will be BAE. @Express691 was there any mention of Suburban's? Supposed to be about 25 Nova's. That's what I have too, but I can't find any firm sources that confirms any makes or brands from Translink/New Flyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buizelbus Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 2 hours ago, Brando737 said: From what I've heard the CNG's will be from New Flyer and the hybrids from Nova which will be BAE. @Express691 was there any mention of Suburban's? Supposed to be about 25 Nova's. Any news on where the buses probably will be going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDOOM Posted October 1, 2017 Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 3 hours ago, buizel10 said: Any news on where the buses probably will be going? A good chunk of the CNGs are for Surrey, which AIUI will be CNG-ready by then. There's ten hybrids for West Van in there. Aside from that, I can only speculate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando737 Posted October 1, 2017 Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 Apparently the 94 hybrids for expansion will all go to VTC which would mean the current Nova's will be spread out everywhere they are needed. Would just be easier to spread them out as they get delivered, but this would give Vancouver a decent number of AC buses. After this delivery, all depots will have AC buses for local service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millennium2002 Posted October 1, 2017 Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 More NovaBuses eh... Anyway, more air-conditioned buses is a good start. I wonder what livery they'll end up coming into town with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcair Posted October 1, 2017 Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 8 hours ago, Millennium2002 said: More NovaBuses eh... Anyway, more air-conditioned buses is a good start. I wonder what livery they'll end up coming into town with. I agree it's not as streamlined as the NFI Xcelsiors, but it is an improvement over the 3rd Gen ones in Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buizelbus Posted October 1, 2017 Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 12 hours ago, Millennium2002 said: More NovaBuses eh... Anyway, more air-conditioned buses is a good start. I wonder what livery they'll end up coming into town with. I'm hoping for Charcoal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buizelbus Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 Anyone know if the diesel and diesel hybrid units will have ISB6.7/ISL9 or B6.7/L9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando737 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 106 XN40 equipped with 2018 Cummins LN9 engines. https://www.newflyer.com/2017/11/bcs-translink-places-firm-order-additional-106-buses-new-flyer/ 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted December 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 On 11/20/2017 at 4:03 PM, Brando737 said: 106 XN40 equipped with 2018 Cummins LN9 engines. https://www.newflyer.com/2017/11/bcs-translink-places-firm-order-additional-106-buses-new-flyer/ According to the December 2017 Board Meeting Report on page 132, HTC will be getting a part of that CNG order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcair Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 Did I miss the official announcement of the Nova order? "New Flyer (NFI) and Nova Bus 40’ bus contracts have been executed with delivery to occur beginning in mid-2018 and ending in mid-2019." EDIT: or is this for the battery-powered trial buses? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando737 Posted February 28, 2018 Report Share Posted February 28, 2018 Seen some photos of S18101 being looked over at the factory, nice and shiny lol. In one of the photos, the destination sign has the SR # and says 153 XN40, but only 106 were mentioned in the release and the board meeting minutes unless I've missed something. Curious if some of the Nova's got switched for XN40's. Also, since these are 181** series so 18101-18253 assuming they come in that order, Nova's and artics (if they start arriving this year) will probably be 180** and 183**. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBusGuy Posted February 28, 2018 Report Share Posted February 28, 2018 I'll be curious to see what the battery electric buses will be numbered. If they were just demonstrators I would assume 1010-1013, but since they're apparently going to be a full part of the fleet I wonder if they'll go for the standard year numbering instead. If that's the case, once upon a time I would have assumed they'd be assigned different groups of hundreds, but since there's two types of 17500s I guess it's certainly possible they'd just make them continuous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja Bus Fan Posted February 28, 2018 Report Share Posted February 28, 2018 7 hours ago, Brando737 said: Seen some photos of S18101 being looked over at the factory, nice and shiny lol. In one of the photos, the destination sign has the SR # and says 153 XN40, but only 106 were mentioned in the release and the board meeting minutes unless I've missed something. Curious if some of the Nova's got switched for XN40's. Also, since these are 181** series so 18101-18253 assuming they come in that order, Nova's and artics (if they start arriving this year) will probably be 180** and 183**. If we’re actually getting 153 XN40’s, they’d most likely replace and retire all the series 50 D40LF’s we currently got in service. After adding up all the buses that are in service, we roughly got 143 units in revenue service. If that’s the case then 10 units would be for expansion assuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleowin Posted February 28, 2018 Report Share Posted February 28, 2018 Dont forget some units are for expansion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja Bus Fan Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 4 hours ago, cleowin said: Dont forget some units are for expansion? But I thought the expansion units are to be the Nova buses ? Or am I wrong ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDOOM Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Ninja Bus Fan said: But I thought the expansion units are to be the Nova buses ? Or am I wrong ... Only inasmuch as it probably would have been a straight Flyer order, if TransLink didn't need so many buses for fleet expansion. Picking which coaches are replacements and which are for expansion is a bit of a shell game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando737 Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Ninja Bus Fan said: But I thought the expansion units are to be the Nova buses ? Or am I wrong ... 39 minutes ago, GORDOOM said: Only inasmuch as it probably would have been a straight Flyer order, if TransLink didn't need so many buses for fleet expansion. Picking which coaches are replacements and which are for expansion is a bit of a shell game. Last I heard officially, the 104 Nova HEV's (10 were going to go to WVT, but they decided to send 10 XD40's from RTC to them instead) were set to be expansion and all to VTC which would push most of the current Nova's elsewhere for expansion with some being for VTC expansion itself. But that was with the XN40 order being 106. Either the 153 is the full order with only 106 this year and the rest later or they switched some of the Nova's to the XN40's to make it cheaper as part of the cost is covered by the carbon tax and possibly a kickback from Fortis BC. Won't know until the orders arrive or the next board meeting in March. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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