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Posted by Scrabbleship on Thu Oct 13 00:59:37 2005, in response to Re: CDTA, posted by MrNYBusDriver2 on Wed Oct 12 15:04:18 2005. John, your posts are always insigtful and eye opening. Thanks. As for comments:Gillig or not, something to take the ease off of those O6's are grateful and their demonsration back in February on the fairly packed 11 proved their usefulness (not to mention it fills the hole the O1/O5 retirement and fleet losses made). Where they go is a good question: The hybrids would show their worth on the 55 (or any stop-and-go route), but would another fleet realignment take place when the inevitable mass retirement of the O6's is a few years off? [For those downstate missing the O6 HEV's: Try riding one with the original configuration, packed, at some off hour and get back to me. It's nothing more than a medium duty bus with heavy duty attributes and lacks in function what it's successor lacks (now) in style.] Those Upstate buses (Thomas 215) are making a long haul every day; one of the drivers of said bus commutes a good 50 miles from around Glens Falls. Even though it's a Thomas, it's still miles ahead from the first generation Ford cutaways that have been doing the Bug since Day One which raises two questions: Are the Bug/Fly worthy of medium-duty buses at this point and would it be CDTA's while to expand their operations in Saratoga County even if it was all under contract to Upstate. There's a huge, gaping, and growing hole beween Latham and Saratoga Springs in CDTA territory which is wide open for some form of transit even if it is hourly, daytime service and commuter runs which should be filled. |
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