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Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017 This is something I don't understand. when the GMC fishbowl buses were rebuilt to "Blitz" some of them were assigned to express service..especially at Yukon depot(#5500 series). I remember someone getting injured and losing a eye on the blitz bus when it was heading over the Verrazano bridge. The buses were pulled off the express route and sent to local service within the 5 boroughs(HUD and UP are examples).My question is, if someone gets hurt, why keep the buses in service? If this was a Grumman 870 issue at the time the buses were pulled everywhere. Why not the Blitz? |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Jan 21 11:41:55 2017, in response to Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017. I think the Grumman 870 thing was a knee-jerk reaction by David Gunn, while he loved the GM Fishbowls. He made sure TTC kept theirs and bought 85 from Montreal (though only used 15 of them). |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by HART BUS on Sat Jan 21 12:16:14 2017, in response to Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017. Why did the passenger lose an eye? Was it from something inside the bus or a projectile aimed at the bus? |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by NJT Oradell on Sat Jan 21 12:25:19 2017, in response to Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017. The MTA evidently investigated the incident and concluded that the buses need not be pulled out of service but simply reassigned. |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Jan 21 13:25:52 2017, in response to Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017. What possessed you tho think of that? It happened almost 25 years ago.It was really at the tail end of their careers, wasn't it? So I'd say they were waiting for their replacements to come in and they were eventually retired within a year or two. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Jan 21 13:26:43 2017, in response to Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by HART BUS on Sat Jan 21 12:16:14 2017. Something happened to the rear suspension and apparently it came through the floor. |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by Cornell Park on Sat Jan 21 15:56:34 2017, in response to Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Jan 21 13:26:43 2017. The story I heard was the driveshaft came apart and hit the floor, which basically shattered. The fix was run the buses at lower speed to prevent this from happening again.I could be wrong though, can't trust everything you hear. |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Jan 21 17:08:44 2017, in response to Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by Cornell Park on Sat Jan 21 15:56:34 2017. Either way it's an odd story. |
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Posted by northshore on Sat Jan 21 17:36:04 2017, in response to Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by caine515 on Sat Jan 21 11:14:49 2017. Just because it happened on one bus, why take the entire fleet out of service? The other Blitz buses were inspected and were fine. |
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Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service |
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Posted by WayneJay on Thu Jan 26 11:39:41 2017, in response to Re: Blitz bus injures a bus passanger yet they stay in service, posted by Joe V on Sat Jan 21 11:41:55 2017. Another interesting tidbit about Gunn is that he served as General Manager at WMATA at a time when they were making Flxible Metro purchases. |
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