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Posted by Dr. Casca on Thu Sep 20 04:31:47 2012, in response to Re: Chicago BRT new brand name is ..., posted by Flxible4life on Wed Sep 19 23:05:07 2012. The CTA took NABI to court over those buses to make the claim that the buses had so many problems and NABI did close to nothing to rectify the problems, let alone the fact that those buses were the first of its kind ever built. NABI's defense was that the CTA garages they were assigned to had such shoddy maintenance, contributing to issues like transmission, midsection and frame failures, and premature underbody corrosion. The CTA argued that all 4 garages that had the artics (103rd, 77th, North Park, and Kedzie) all had the same issue despite each garage having different maintenance histories, and claimed that NABI did not provide the warranty support for a bus that they only had a prototype for AFTER they placed a bid on and was the sole bid for the buses, all 230 of them part of a "guinea pig fleet" of buses...Back in 2009, the CTA ordered 150 buses from unused provisions of the Seattle contract and 58 more buses of their own to replace the NABIs, sidelining them pending litigation. The CTA needed permission from the Feds to retire them and scrap them early since they had not reached the 12-year mark for federally funded buses. Being that the CTA won their case in court, after a lengthy heated court battle, the NABIs should be on their way out fairly soon, once the Feds review the suit and give them the go-ahead. That is the story as I received it. --Dr. C |
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