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Re: (2) Brand new 2008 Orion VII Next Generation HEV buses makes a debut at Castleton |
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Posted by JAzumah on Sat Jun 14 10:45:50 2008, in response to Re: (2) Brand new 2008 Orion VII Next Generation HEV buses makes a debut at Castleton, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Jun 14 08:31:41 2008. The vandals are visible, but a much smaller problem than the maintenance. The current strategy is to put non-needy buses in SI (to the chagrin of MTA Bus and QV!) so that they can park them in remote lots and perform bare bones maintenance. The Orion VII has never been that type of bus for any depot.The NGs are a modified type (think GMC > TMC or TMC > NovaBus) that is familiar, but has enough different things that it may have some teething problems. If they are just barely making the schedules now, how are they going to be able to do that with a type that needs as much attention as an Orion VII? Can you say headaches? Ironically, the MCIs are the least needy buses in all of MTA land because they were built for limited maintenance intervals. |
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