Great video love to see more videos of buses there. I remember those buses when they wher brand new 1985 to 1991 on the streets in buffalo and niagara falls.
They might still have a few running. I have not been there since 1999. 1999 they wher starting to take them off. In Canada a lot are still running in the Toronto area. In Canada they do a very good job of rebuilding and taking care of the buses. In Buffalo the NFTA does a lousy job of taking care of them. Thir whole maintnance policy is wait till it breaks then fix it. I tried to suggest to them to do preventive maintnancing by documenting when parts break and replacing them before. They balked.
The nfta in Buffalo does excellant body rebuilds of buses. Their mechanical rebuilds are not as good as the ones Toronto does on their system. Toronto they do excellant preventive maintnancing on their buses. Buffalo has a lot of the worst streets. Alot of streets in Buffalo are so bad they look like they have been bombed out and strafed by fighter bombers.
What about their 1996 Nova Classics, They are my favorites but I do miss their 1992 MCI Classic and I dont know what happened to them, I was figured that they send them to canada for secondhand. And I was been told sadly that Rochester RTS is retiring their 1996 Nova Classics next year, what a shame..
Here in Chicago, PACE is slowly retiring our 1993 Orion Is, it is very shocking because we have the last orders of Orion 1s before it discontinued later 1993.
Their 1996 Nova Classics are probably still runnning. I remember when they first received them brand new. The thing about the nfta is their ridership was high on a lot of the trips, and they should of been in a position to make a lot of service increases, with ridership going up. A lot of time and money there is wasted on giving bus drivers lots of big 20 to 40 minute layovers. A lot of runs there they only work 6 hours and get paid 8. They call them gravy train runs.
If not for that the nfta would of been in a position to buy mci classics every year with a chance they would of remained in production longer. A lot of transit systems do what the nfta does. It was always my position that buses should be rebuilt every 6 years and kept running 18 to as much as 30 years. The mci buses are buses that can run 27 year with the right maintnance and rebuilds. The ttc does the best job when it comes to rebuilding buses. The nfta I would say comes in 3rd or 4th.
@newflyer500 NFTA DO HAVE LONG ASS LAYOVERS..AND MOST BUSES ARE RETIRING, NEW FLYERS ARE RETIRED, ORIONS I AND V HAVE BEEN GONE SINCE 2005, NABIS ARE RETIRING SLOWLY, I ONLY SEE VERY FEW NOW, AND NOVA CLASSICS ARE STILL RUNNING BUT THOSE ARE GOING SLOWLY AS WELL..GILLIG ADVANTAGE IS TAKIN OVER NFTA
1991 Orion I?
Bus7777 2 years ago
1988 Orion 1
hobbes401 2 years ago
this bus i luv it i luv the orion 1 buses and they got alot of power look how it move quick
leem9966 2 years ago 4
they still do.
newflyer500 3 years ago
This was 1988 model. Wow I miss the late 80s.
qwandiddy 3 years ago
What is the engine there?
Collinss525 3 years ago
It is a DD 6V92
hobbes401 3 years ago
Must be a DD 6V92 in this bus, eh!
mrceleb2006 4 years ago
Great video love to see more videos of buses there. I remember those buses when they wher brand new 1985 to 1991 on the streets in buffalo and niagara falls.
newflyer500 4 years ago
Does Buffalo still has their 1991 Orion 1s? probably not, huh?
qwandiddy 3 years ago
They might still have a few running. I have not been there since 1999. 1999 they wher starting to take them off. In Canada a lot are still running in the Toronto area. In Canada they do a very good job of rebuilding and taking care of the buses. In Buffalo the NFTA does a lousy job of taking care of them. Thir whole maintnance policy is wait till it breaks then fix it. I tried to suggest to them to do preventive maintnancing by documenting when parts break and replacing them before. They balked.
newflyer500 3 years ago
The nfta in Buffalo does excellant body rebuilds of buses. Their mechanical rebuilds are not as good as the ones Toronto does on their system. Toronto they do excellant preventive maintnancing on their buses. Buffalo has a lot of the worst streets. Alot of streets in Buffalo are so bad they look like they have been bombed out and strafed by fighter bombers.
newflyer500 3 years ago
What about their 1996 Nova Classics, They are my favorites but I do miss their 1992 MCI Classic and I dont know what happened to them, I was figured that they send them to canada for secondhand. And I was been told sadly that Rochester RTS is retiring their 1996 Nova Classics next year, what a shame..
Here in Chicago, PACE is slowly retiring our 1993 Orion Is, it is very shocking because we have the last orders of Orion 1s before it discontinued later 1993.
qwandiddy 3 years ago
Their 1996 Nova Classics are probably still runnning. I remember when they first received them brand new. The thing about the nfta is their ridership was high on a lot of the trips, and they should of been in a position to make a lot of service increases, with ridership going up. A lot of time and money there is wasted on giving bus drivers lots of big 20 to 40 minute layovers. A lot of runs there they only work 6 hours and get paid 8. They call them gravy train runs.
newflyer500 3 years ago
If not for that the nfta would of been in a position to buy mci classics every year with a chance they would of remained in production longer. A lot of transit systems do what the nfta does. It was always my position that buses should be rebuilt every 6 years and kept running 18 to as much as 30 years. The mci buses are buses that can run 27 year with the right maintnance and rebuilds. The ttc does the best job when it comes to rebuilding buses. The nfta I would say comes in 3rd or 4th.
newflyer500 3 years ago
@newflyer500 NFTA DO HAVE LONG ASS LAYOVERS..AND MOST BUSES ARE RETIRING, NEW FLYERS ARE RETIRED, ORIONS I AND V HAVE BEEN GONE SINCE 2005, NABIS ARE RETIRING SLOWLY, I ONLY SEE VERY FEW NOW, AND NOVA CLASSICS ARE STILL RUNNING BUT THOSE ARE GOING SLOWLY AS WELL..GILLIG ADVANTAGE IS TAKIN OVER NFTA
smithtube111 8 months ago
@newflyer500 I WISH NFTA WOULDA LISTENED TO YOU BECAUSE I LOVED THE ORIONS WHEN I WAS A LITTLE YOUNGER AND NOW THEIR GONE
smithtube111 8 months ago
@qwandiddy NO, GOT RID OF THEM IN 2005 FOR GILLIGS
smithtube111 8 months ago