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According to the Altoona Bus Test website, the Gillig 40-foot battery electric bus is not listed among vehicles that have passed the test. And, outside of one bus in revenue service in Santa Monica, CA, Gillig reports that it is not expected to deliver any of those vehicles before May. Oahu should be receiving new 29-foot diesels from Gillig soon, but no telling when we will see any battery electric 40-footers. Meanwhile, many American cities seem happy with their Proterra and New Flyer electric buses. I’m sure Gillig and Cummins will eventually produce a fine bus. But I wonder if  city purchasers would have made the decision to go with Gillig if they had known it would take this long. They originally predicted the first deliveries in 2019. Let’s hope our 23-year-old Gillig Phantoms will continue to run well.

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I think the question comes down to - once they pass, how long will it take to produce a fleet for any bus company, let alone TheBus. Here in San Jose, VTA is running 1999 Gillig LF buses also waiting for the Gillig Electrics to be approved (they are not satisfied with the Proterras). From the factory shots that I have seen I haven't seen a backlog of shells ready to go...meanwhile other fleets are getting tons of new buses (Miami-Date comes to mind). Should be interesting...

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On 2/4/2020 at 12:49 PM, Alika.valdez1234 said:

Bus 235 broke down due to battery issues it’s stuck between makalapa and radford drive before entering freeway. On the route 11

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It broke down?

 

Damn it got fix on feb 6 2020 when i was riding 235 on 8 rare because it own by Pearl City.

 

On feb 6 2020 this bus was on route 8 and i think this bus runs fine now.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Only1Moore said:

That may explain why I saw Bus 100 stripped of its accordion rims at Pearl City. Can’t miss it next to the now-dead 925.

Any other retirements that are not written on the wiki?

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While @Rotidua is updating us about the RTS bus made in 1993 that went out for auction by HFD.

I forgot to mention more buses about my trip to the Philippines back in January. A 1994 600 series operated by Fariñas Transit waiting at the Bus terminal drop off in Barangay 7 area, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte for its first trip to Manila. Well it looked like a 652 because when I took a closer look above the driver side windows where the unit number was fully faded, I can still see 652 visible.0FFD2AED-5F55-4B33-A17D-F1FDF2D814A9.thumb.jpeg.99647e8bd42bb70ef1fec3fea1747d71.jpeg

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On 4/30/2020 at 3:06 PM, Rotidua said:

Well I'll be damned. The Fire Department's Waipahu Division sold their 1993 TMC RTS-08 back in March. It went cheap too. Final bid on this one was $777 on the public surplus auction. 

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Congratulations @Rotidua we are going to have 35ft Proterra buses besides 29ft buses so the city chose 35footers instead I’m excited too to ride these again but now owned by the OTS it even the website even added department of transportation honolulu logo in their website too besides god damn racist JTB that only allow Japanese tourist in their buses like their proterras) some one gotta sue JTB and the Japanese affairs company for that. HELLO PEOPLE this is a free country and I infinitely Hate JTB until they get sued close down or Let other race people and other tourist besides Japanese people only as a plus they don’t deserve a business and the buses at all!!!!! But the hell with JTB cuz we getting our own tons of Proterra buses for TheBus! Haha! ? you JTB! In yo face JTB! Haha

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Proterra.PDF

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Couldn’t find any info about the city purchasing Proterra buses. Checked Proterra website, TheBus website and the news wires. Always assumed the new 35-foot buses would come from Gillig so all new buses except the 60-footers could use the same charging infrastructure. 

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42 minutes ago, Williamv said:

Couldn’t find any info about the city purchasing Proterra buses. Checked Proterra website, TheBus website and the news wires. Always assumed the new 35-foot buses would come from Gillig so all new buses except the 60-footers could use the same charging infrastructure. 

Excuse me!!! Umm.... am I the only one that downloaded the Proterra.pdf And read it? because you still haven’t read everything I posted on this one @Williamv?

 

13 hours ago, Alika.valdez1234 said:

Congratulations @Rotidua we are going to have 35ft Proterra buses besides 29ft buses so the city chose 35footers instead I’m excited too to ride these again but now owned by the OTS it even the website even added department of transportation honolulu logo in their website too besides god damn racist JTB that only allow Japanese tourist in their buses like their proterras) some one gotta sue JTB and the Japanese affairs company for that. HELLO PEOPLE this is a free country and I infinitely Hate JTB until they get sued close down or Let other race people and other tourist besides Japanese people only as a plus they don’t deserve a business and the buses at all!!!!! But the hell with JTB cuz we getting our own tons of Proterra buses for TheBus! Haha! ? you JTB! In yo face JTB! Haha

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Proterra.PDF 222.33 kB · 1 download

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Download it then see if I’m right or wrong?  @Williamv because I see 1 download and that person is only me. Come on people if you read any topic on this site, closely and carefully read through everything on comment also if there’s is any attachment and files just Like my Proterra.pdf, I’m suggesting to read them as well so that you read everything or you will not know until you read it or someone explains them to you. And here if you can’t read my pdf then here’s my screenshot of the pdf (this is hardwork for me)?

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Thank you @Alika.valdez1234 for screen shots of  the document, which I was not able to download. It appears to be a discussion of the RFP between Proterra and a city purchasing administrator. I can’t find anything that states Proterra has won the contract. Also, Honolulu is listed as a customer on the proterra.pdf document but not on the Proterra website. The final deadline for solicitations is June 8, and there undoubtedly will be other bidders. We’ll see what happens.

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Salamat for the “like” @Alika.valdez1234. The Division of Purchasing has just listed new solicitations for both electric and diesel 40-foot buses and for diesel 60-foot buses. Does anybody know what’s keeping the city from ordering any New Flyer 60-foot electric buses?

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