Niagara Falls Transit

[wil9402]

the new people mover system will be split between NFT and the Parks Commission- NFT will operate the Blue and Red Lines and the NPC will operate the Green Line along the Niagara Parkway. The existing Orion units with the NPC will I assume be retired by the end of the year

Just to clarify, will Orion IVs see service this year or will they be completely replaced by the Novas in April?

[niatrans10]

Just to clarify, will Orion IVs see service this year or will they be completely replaced by the Novas in April?

The NPC Novas are supposed to be delivered in late March/early April as NFT will begin getting theirs at the end of February, so I imagine the IVs may be around to start the season.....anybody's guess right now

[niatrans10]

just an update....all four remaining Classics have had their licence plates and fareboxes removed and I assume will be towed out of the NFT yard within the next few weeks to make room for the People Mover units

[97SCT]

just an update....all four remaining Classics have had their licence plates and fareboxes removed and I assume will be towed out of the NFT yard within the next few weeks to make room for the People Mover units

yeah, i have been told last week all Classics including 8937 have been retired, pretty much ends the rollsign era in the Falls. Also, counterpart 8936 will be given to the Niagara Falls Fire Dept. for training exercises, which means it will be destroyed anyway

[niatrans10]

yeah, i have been told last week all Classics including 8937 have been retired, pretty much ends the rollsign era in the Falls. Also, counterpart 8936 will be given to the Niagara Falls Fire Dept. for training exercises, which means it will be destroyed anyway

i was just told by a mechanic this morning it's three Classics going to the Fire Department; on another note NFT Garage staff are in Montreal doing the final inspections on the People Mover units... probably start looking for them next week

[97SCT]

i was just told by a mechanic this morning it's three Classics going to the Fire Department; on another note NFT Garage staff are in Montreal doing the final inspections on the People Mover units... probably start looking for them next week

three? oh either way it's going to hurt hard if 8372 or 8937 are sent there to be destroyed anyways.....

[niatrans10]

do you happen to know how i might go about getting an old NFT rollsign?

[t_harris01]

try calling NFT see what happens

[niatrans10]

the GM there told me it was "city policy" not to let people have rollsigns

[t_harris01]

i see

[niatrans10]

would any signs still be in scrapyard buses?

[t_harris01]

i saw the fishbowl one at that scrapyard at Kalar and Beverdams...there was no signs

[general682002]

i see

You've been lucky then!

[t_harris01]

i know...kinda shocked about that 1

[niatrans10]

three? oh either way it's going to hurt hard if 8372 or 8937 are sent there to be destroyed anyways.....

while we're on the fire department bus topic didn't the St. Catharines FD get two V's for use as shelter buses?

[lap_screw]

yup 9052 and 9053

[niatrans10]

hopefully this will be the use for the Classics however I imagine at least one will be used for Jaws Of Life training and we know hat that means

[niatrans10]

I've been told starting mid to late next week start looking for the Nova Artics on the NFT property; no idea if they will have a pre-applied livery or if they're going to be all-white at first

[97SCT]

I've been told starting mid to late next week start looking for the Nova Artics on the NFT property; no idea if they will have a pre-applied livery or if they're going to be all-white at first

i'll bet they will arrive all white, then have the livery applied later like the 09 Nova fleet and the new Orions (both city and regional)

[DL1892]

i'll bet they will arrive all white, then have the livery applied later like the 09 Nova fleet and the new Orions (both city and regional)

I'd assume, since one page back, it was said that nova artics were spotted road testing in Laval, that they would already be in livery.

[niatrans10]

i'll bet they will arrive all white, then have the livery applied later like the 09 Nova fleet and the new Orions (both city and regional)

the 09 Novas came with the livery pre-applied

[niatrans10]

some IT news....Talk Wireless was in at the garage today and the new handsfree radios should be all operational within several days and also NFT has gone ahead with it's stop announcement system which should be operational on the VTS buses by June and the rest of the fleet by the fall

[general682002]

some IT news....Talk Wireless was in at the garage today and the new handsfree radios should be all operational within several days and also NFT has gone ahead with it's stop announcement system which should be operational on the VTS buses by June and the rest of the fleet by the fall

That bus 2369, it has a automated announcer with a huge display screen, does it ever works?

[niatrans10]

it was removed several years ago, it was just an ill-fated testbed

[niatrans10]

the Novas will now be arriving late March/early April and there will be a media announcement at that about the buses and the name of the new service

insert "time" before the word "about", my bad