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Re: 1981 News Report: Grumman-Flxible 870 Cracked A-Frame Problems |
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Posted by mcorivervsaf on Tue Jan 4 09:47:22 2011, in response to Re: 1981 News Report: Grumman-Flxible 870 Cracked A-Frame Problems, posted by r17-6599 on Mon Jan 3 22:25:45 2011. I think it might have been the public shaming of these buses on the part of BOTH then-TA President David Gunn, & then-mayor Ed Koch, that might have put the final nail in the coffin for the NYCTA/MABSTOA Grummans. The Grumman express bus that caught fire in 1984, caused such an embarrassment, that when Ed Koch saw the burned bus & called it, "a piece of junk", may have influenced newly appointed TA Prez Gunn to take them off the road. The reason these buses were withdrawn might have been political for all we know... |
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