Calgary Transit

[vicinity]

9 minutes ago, JK-from-YYC said:

Another photo of 6094, couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this! Didn’t get to ride it today, but externally it looks like Big Rig did a good job. Looks nice with the newer-style paint scheme but the front fleet number placement is odd IMO.

Did you happen to see what they seats were like in the interior?

[Souluxy]

28 minutes ago, vicinity said:

Did you happen to see what they seats were like in the interior?

I think it would be the same ones as before. Anyways, I wonder if it’ll have A/C?

[JK-from-YYC]

I did see, they were American Seating Vision.

[downbeat]

1 hour ago, Souluxy said:

Anyways, I wonder if it’ll have A/C?

I see the windows can be opened … not sure they would have AC on a bus like that?

[armorand]

21 hours ago, TechSpotlight said:

Those buses you mentioned are temporary loaners to VP due to a bus shortage at VP.

Speaking of bus shortages... 7964-7980? 

[wt_enthusiast_photos]

54 minutes ago, armorand said:

Speaking of bus shortages... 7964-7980? 

They are in Anderson. Won’t be returning for a little while. The older buses will return before they do

[Souluxy]

1 hour ago, downbeat said:

I see the windows can be opened … not sure they would have AC on a bus like that?

You gotta keep in that the front end is from Phoenix and that place is very hot. Doesn’t make sense for it not to have A/C or just in the front

[JK-from-YYC]

The AC from the Phoenix end could have been removed by Big Rig or just disconnected.

[agott]

11 hours ago, Souluxy said:

These buses like TechSpotlight said above are temporary loaners to VP since VP is retiring the 2001’s they’re on shortage for now

ohhh i see. though, once the 2001 D40LFs, are gone, I assume another type of bus may be moved there? also, I’m curious to know what happened to the buses at Anderson right now, like the 2006 D40s, the 2002 D40s, and the late 2004- early 2005 D40s?

[wt_enthusiast_photos]

10 minutes ago, agott said:

ohhh i see. though, once the 2001 D40LFs, are gone, I assume another type of bus may be moved there? also, I’m curious to know what happened to the buses at Anderson right now, like the 2006 D40s, the 2002 D40s, and the late 2004- early 2005 D40s?

Next ones to be moved I believe would be the rest of the 2002s and the rest of the early 2005s and maybe a few of the 2003s

[agott]

47 minutes ago, wt_enthusiast_photos said:

Next ones to be moved I believe would be the rest of the 2002s and the rest of the early 2005s and maybe a few of the 2003s

any idea when the 2006 D40s will go back into service? it has been nearly 2 years since they were in service 

[Souluxy]

23 minutes ago, agott said:

any idea when the 2006 D40s will go back into service? it has been nearly 2 years since they were in service 

Most likely not anytime soon, from what I can see, they’re moving the oldest unrefurbished buses to VP to replace the 01’s as they get retired 

[TechSpotlight]

Just remember that it does take quite a bit of effort to put those stored buses back into service.  They have to make sure the bus is in fully working order, drivetrain is good, fluids are topped off, battery/tires are good, signs are up-to-date, etc.  We likely won't see more Anderson buses re-enter service until more 2001s retire.

[CTrainDude]

Assuming ridership starts to show a strong return, I wouldn’t expect to see any Anderson buses back until September at the earliest. 

[agott]

thanks for the info everyone!

[downbeat]

13 hours ago, Souluxy said:

You gotta keep in that the front end is from Phoenix and that place is very hot.

Ah yes, of course! 

[yvarushin]

11 hours ago, CTrainDude said:

Assuming ridership starts to show a strong return, I wouldn’t expect to see any Anderson buses back until September at the earliest. 

I think we are headed in the right direction. Ridership is definitely making a comeback.

[downbeat]

54 minutes ago, yvarushin said:

I think we are headed in the right direction. Ridership is definitely making a comeback.

Agreed! I’ve been on some busy westbound Route 1 departures in the evening over the last couple of weeks …

[JK-from-YYC]

1 hour ago, yvarushin said:

I think we are headed in the right direction. Ridership is definitely making a comeback.

The 301 is near where I live and it’s full pretty much every time I see it, and especially during peak it’s stuffed. I think some of the higher-traffic routes at least need some of the extras they lost to spring signup back soon, although CT has a lot to deal with right now (Safety on the Ctrain, VP bus shortage etc) so I’m not sure when they would make those changes.

[Nick B]

40 minutes ago, JK-from-YYC said:

The 301 is near where I live and it’s full pretty much every time I see it, and especially during peak it’s stuffed. I think some of the higher-traffic routes at least need some of the extras they lost to spring signup back soon, although CT has a lot to deal with right now (Safety on the Ctrain, VP bus shortage etc) so I’m not sure when they would make those changes.

The 301 situation is nothing short of a travesty and an embarrassment. Complaints come in almost daily now on Twitter of consistent severe overloads on the 301 and north expresses throughout the day while what is supposed to be the bus equivalent of an LRT line runs every 40 minutes during off peak. I'm surprised they haven't short turned the 301 or put goddamn Arbocs on it during the off peak which I'm sure they'd love to do. Why slash so much service on one of the most important bus corridors in the city while keeping redundant services like the 178 running around almost empty and sending like 3 buses in a row on Route 12 within 2 minutes of each other? Bus shortages compensated for by ordering brand new buses which will need to be commissioned and put on the road, while we already have a whole garage full of 100+ perfectly good buses collecting dust?

I realize I don't know the full story here but I'm sure I speak for most if not all members of the fare paying, tax paying, riding public when I say that it's exactly things like this happening blatantly in front of my own eyes that make me question the integrity of the people at the top who run the transit operation and cause me to lose confidence in this mode of transport for my own needs. I'd be lying if I said that wasn't the case. No I don't know management's exact reasoning behind the decisions they made and frankly I couldn't care less; this city needs and deserves better transit and what we have right now is not it.

[downbeat]

On 4/6/2022 at 12:26 PM, LRT said:

6049 has the red seats toooooooo

One possible benefit of the plastic seats: it will be more obvious when they are wet and people might not want to sit down. I speak from experience!  

[agott]

On 4/9/2022 at 9:53 AM, yvarushin said:

I think we are headed in the right direction. Ridership is definitely making a comeback.

agreed! Ridership in the SE area of the city, specifically routes from Red Line stations to Southern communities have been the busiest I've seen since the beginning of the pandemic. I've seen CT assign 60 footers to the 153 and 14 during AM and PM rush hours, which was quite a surprise to me!

[TechSpotlight]

2 hours ago, agott said:

agreed! Ridership in the SE area of the city, specifically routes from Red Line stations to Southern communities have been the busiest I've seen since the beginning of the pandemic. I've seen CT assign 60 footers to the 153 and 14 during AM and PM rush hours, which was quite a surprise to me!

The 14 Bridlewood section always has high ridership esspecially from school kids.  That's why you see artics as well as decently high frequency on-peak during the school year.  With that said, this is not the case with many routes, both on/off peak and in many circumstances it's flat out embarassing for CT.  In my opinion, what's even more embarassing is that certain routes (such as the 37) have higher frequency on SUNDAYS than during the week.  Just disapointing.

[agott]

4 hours ago, TechSpotlight said:

The 14 Bridlewood section always has high ridership esspecially from school kids.  That's why you see artics as well as decently high frequency on-peak during the school year.  With that said, this is not the case with many routes, both on/off peak and in many circumstances it's flat out embarassing for CT.  In my opinion, what's even more embarassing is that certain routes (such as the 37) have higher frequency on SUNDAYS than during the week.  Just disapointing.

(off topic) I still find it annoying and disappointing with the changes CT made to a lot of routes in 2018, like getting rid of the 72/73 and making it so that riders would have to use many transfers with routes like the 9,20,23,38, and 43. I wonder why they got rid of the 72/73 anyway?

[wt_enthusiast_photos]

6 minutes ago, agott said:

(off topic) I still find it annoying and disappointing with the changes CT made to a lot of routes in 2018, like getting rid of the 72/73 and making it so that riders would have to use many transfers with routes like the 9,20,23,38, and 43. I wonder why they got rid of the 72/73 anyway?

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