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Center running means they'll need new buses with left-side doors?BTD plans to add center running bus lanes on Columbus Ave in JP/Roxbury: https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/columbus-avenue-bus-lanes
Or they could have right side platforms between the bus lane and the car lane. I don't think they would change the equipment, as all of the affected routes would continue to predominately involve right lane service outside of the Walnut to Jackson corridor.Center running means they'll need new buses with left-side doors?
This is good politics. Neighbors despise idling diesels--noise & smell. I imagine every hearing on bus garages keeps coming back to this point. CR has solved it by proposing "shore power" (plugging locomotive into electricity that keeps them warm, rather than running them all night). Bus needed a "our garages are getting cleaner" message (and never really had one, that I'm aware)Bus Facility Modernization (don't call it Transformation) will have a dedicated staff manager. All new facilities will be designed to house battery-electric buses at some point for an all-battery fleet in the future.
This is good politics. Neighbors despise idling diesels--noise & smell. I imagine every hearing on bus garages keeps coming back to this point. CR has solved it by proposing "shore power" (plugging locomotive into electricity that keeps them warm, rather than running them all night). Bus needed a "our garages are getting cleaner" message (and never really had one, that I'm aware)
Tragi-comic example: Even though Medford's Salem St bus garage was completely irrelevant to the GLX (or even ameliorated by it if more LRTs meant fewer buses), the overnight idling of buses was touted by the mob as the #1 reason not to trust the MBTA's plan to bring electric transit to Medford. (Yes, it is somewhere between crazy and counter-productive, but that's most of politics).
Nice, I guess. But what's the plan here? I bet they're gonna do the usual half-ass bullshit of only eliminating select parking spaces, gobbling up the (much-needed) median to leave the roadway even wider than it is already. What they SHOULD do is what any other city would do, which is to note that Columbus is a major fucking artery and in order to function as such, ban parking on both sides, put the buses there, and leave the median as is (and gee, maybe even beautify it a little? Oh, wait, it's basically Roxbury so why would the city do anything like that?)BTD plans to add center running bus lanes on Columbus Ave in JP/Roxbury: https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/columbus-avenue-bus-lanes
Wow. Just $500 for 31 buses. Even though they're just scrap, I assumed it would have been higher.The MBTA has finally listed their 1994/1995 RTS buses for scrap, presumably to make space for the holding of outgoing Neoplans that are starting to come out of service.
Wow. Just $500 for 31 buses. Even though they're just scrap, I assumed it would have been higher.
The MBTA has finally listed their 1994/1995 RTS buses for scrap, presumably to make space for the holding of outgoing Neoplans that are starting to come out of service.
That's the first bid, there's still 12 more days of bidding I'd expect it to close a fair bit higher than that.Wow. Just $500 for 31 buses. Even though they're just scrap, I assumed it would have been higher.
Interesting that the T put a bunch of Boeing and Kinkisharyo LRVs on there as well
Scrap Light Rail Vehicles
This item is being sold by auction. Bidding starts Jan 14 and ends Jan 28. Item is located in Newton, MA.www.auctionsinternational.com