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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Oct 2 23:49:13 2022, in response to Re: Brief History of Chicago Transit Authority, posted by WayneJay on Sun Oct 2 20:39:50 2022. A strange thing: Long Beach Transit in Southern California, who was a big RTS user (they were the launch customer for the RTS-01 in 1977, and received the 10,000th RTS in 1985 (#4477, was part of an order of 14, GMC arranged for them to get #10,000 by itself, and the remainder of the order (4478-4491) arrived in 1986. Those were the final buses LBT ever received from GMC, as the next order was for 27 RTS-06, 1989 models which arrived early in 1990). Anyway, they ordered some -08s (19 each in 1992 and 993), but even with the wide front door, the w/c lifts were still in the back. WTF?!? Why didn't they just get more -06s? It turned out to be academic, as they then decided to go low-floor, so the next order was for 20 New Flyer D40LFs in 1994 and that was the end of RTS for LBT. |
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