Rd320 Posted December 20, 2018 Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 D40LF 9816 is now in operation in Whistler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 Looks like they’ve also put 9753 to work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted December 22, 2018 Report Share Posted December 22, 2018 I'm shocked they're putting NextRide into such old buses... they're so so so slow to install it in Victoria right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Matt Dunlop said: I'm shocked they're putting NextRide into such old buses... they're so so so slow to install it in Victoria right now. Yeah i figured they’d do that with at least one of the 1998’s up there since there was a need for 3 extra buses this winter though i was suprised when i came across 9753 on nextride. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleowin Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 I listened to a XN40 video of their latest models.. the interiors of BC Transit vehicles are absolutely horrid, but the XN40 with Voith transmission sounds very nice, the closest Xcelsior I've heard that sounds like Translink's Cummin's D40LF's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 6 hours ago, cleowin said: I listened to a XN40 video of their latest models.. the interiors of BC Transit vehicles are absolutely horrid, but the XN40 with Voith transmission sounds very nice, the closest Xcelsior I've heard that sounds like Translink's Cummin's D40LF's. What do you mean by the interiors are horrid? The seating layout? The seat type/upholstery? The interior lighting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 Whistler today 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleowin Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Matt Dunlop said: What do you mean by the interiors are horrid? The seating layout? The seat type/upholstery? The interior lighting? The seat type mainly, also i prefer yellow bars, the silver bars make it look retro. The colours arent great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted December 24, 2018 Report Share Posted December 24, 2018 14 hours ago, cleowin said: The seat type mainly, also i prefer yellow bars, the silver bars make it look retro. The colours arent great Hmm. I like the silver bars, however I do not like the yellow stop buttons. The seat color is defenitly not the best. Perhaps blue seating for priority seating and black seating for the rest would make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted January 9, 2019 Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 On 12/23/2018 at 9:47 PM, Rd320 said: Whistler today 9415 is still in Whistler according to next ride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted January 9, 2019 Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Thomasw said: 9415 is still in Whistler according to next ride Yeah it will likely be around until the end of the ski season in April/May to handle the extra crowds along with the 3 D40LFs they’ve recently brought from storage. Not sure what the plan for them will be after that though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted January 9, 2019 Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, Rd320 said: Yeah it will likely be around until the end of the ski season in April/May to handle the extra crowds along with the 3 D40LFs they’ve recently brought from storage. Not sure what the plan for them will be after that though Which D40LFs did they bring out of storage? Could some one also update the wiki to include these new changes @Articulated@Kevin L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted January 9, 2019 Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 5 minutes ago, Thomasw said: Which D40LFs did they bring out of storage? Could some one also update the wiki to include these new changes @Articulated@Kevin L The D40LF’s are 9753, 9756, and 9816 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rd320 Posted January 16, 2019 Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 Currently looking at Nextride and it looks like new XN40’s 1140 and 1141 are now in Whistler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGSTER200 Posted December 24, 2019 Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 9820 from yesterday. also updated the wiki to include the express routes; 10, 20X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Long time since the last post, saw 1148 doing the 99 Pemberton Commuter Novas undergoing repair perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Express691 said: Long time since the last post, saw 1148 doing the 99 Pemberton Commuter Novas undergoing repair perhaps? Only 2 Novas for a 7-day-a-week route, so when one has to go in for scheduled maintenance, there's no backup if the second unit develops issues. If it was only that route out of its own division, BC Transit would've certainly given a 3rd unit to keep as an emergency backup; however, the XN40s are more than capable of serving as backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ephrex Posted January 29, 2022 Report Share Posted January 29, 2022 As of this morning, service has been (outside of HandyDart in Squamish) suspended due to a labour dispute between the contracted operating company and their union. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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InfiNorth Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 On 6/8/2022 at 5:55 PM, Busmanic92 said: https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/workers-vote-down-deal-that-would-have-ended-sea-to-sky-transit-strike-5423921 Guess back to square one.... Sorry but I'd recommend finding a better source and removing that link, it is pro-employer anti-worker propaganda piece, starting right at the title. Half the article is just a direct quote of a PWT spokesperson bashing their employees. "PWT's director of B.C. operations Steve Antil questioned the idea of wage parity given how much he said transit duties can differ across communities, and that Sea to Sky workers are already "close to the top of the heap" when it comes to wages." That's... pretty laughable. This is probably the highest cost-of-living area served by BC Transit (outside the CRD). Then this clown goes on to defend their low wages by saying other people in similar earn less, so somehow that justifies PWT paying their employees dirt cheap. Please find a better news source. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted June 15, 2022 Report Share Posted June 15, 2022 tentative agreement is reached: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/tentative-agreement-reached-to-end-sea-to-sky-transit-strike-1.5922738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Posted June 15, 2022 Report Share Posted June 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Express691 said: tentative agreement is reached: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/tentative-agreement-reached-to-end-sea-to-sky-transit-strike-1.5922738 Check the publish date. This is the deal they turned down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express691 Posted June 15, 2022 Report Share Posted June 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, Iron said: Check the publish date. This is the deal they turned down. apologies - happened hours ago so news stories are still trickling out https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-transit-sea-to-sky-whistler-squamish-bus-strike-ends-2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busmanic92 Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 18 hours ago, Express691 said: apologies - happened hours ago so news stories are still trickling out https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-transit-sea-to-sky-whistler-squamish-bus-strike-ends-2022 https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/sea-sky-transit-operators-reject-employers-latest-offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zortan Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Busmanic92 said: https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/sea-sky-transit-operators-reject-employers-latest-offer That article is from May 30, the current agreement has been signed off on by all parties, I beleive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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