RTC Transit - 2004 New Flyer D60LF (811 @ 201 Tropicana)

[8v71buses]

Wow this sounds tough! Probably has M.A.N. axles

[flyerbuses5000]

i like the backfire at 3:22 through 3:26

[newflyer12]

good-tough

[brownbrownson]

i don't think the 800s were ever on the 301. they went straight to the 201/202/109 routes..

[sonicjerry]

The 800s were assigned to route 301 before RTC got the double deckers.

[brownbrownson]

wow. i never saw an 800 on the 301.. that's awkward.. lol

[sonicjerry]

I've been on an 800 a few times on route 301. I was looking at my old photos and I do have photos of route 301 having 800 series. I looked at the date when i took those photos and it was a few months before RTC got the double deckers. So the 800 series was on route 301 for a few months before the double deckers took over.

[brownbrownson]

RTC got the D60LFs in around April-ish of 2005, right? (were the 2004 model ones delivered in 2005, or did they come in 12/2004?) and the Enviros came around that same time... yes, no?

[sonicjerry]

RTC got them around early 2005 and started service in March of 2005. It was the same year when RTC got the double deckers and started the service of the double deckers in October.

[sandmarine14]

how does that transit system number their buses?

[brownbrownson]

@sandmarine14 stupidly. instead of numbering the buses with the model, they're only three numbers wide as the RTC/Veolia's computer system can only work with 3 numbers for a bus number.

[tbrett000]

hey i rode bus 800 on the 201, i still dont understand why the bus beeps when the driver puts on the right turn signal.

[ea90744]

prolly the same reason why San Francisco MUNI did on their buses.

[brownbrownson]

@tbrett000 i think because Veolia/ATC was tired of all the incidents where people say they didn't see nor hear the bus coming..

[brownbrownson]

@tbrett000 i think they stopped doing that on the newer 2009 C40LFRs, 2008 40LFWs, 05-08 Transbus Enviros..

[brownbrownson]

They are not only restricted/limited to the routes 201 and 202. They are also found on routes such as the 108, 115, 109, 101, 219...and I'm sure many other routes.