Greyhound Departure - Austin Powers Style

Brand New Greyhound bus backing out of the passenger loading bay at Montreal's "Terminus Centrale", but someone carelessly parked a bus right behind it, so the driver backing up had to make quite a few tricky manoeuvres to get out, and for a moment there it looked like that scene from the Austin Powers movie where Austin was completely stuck with the luggage cart!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Greyhound
• USA
• Bus
• Terminus
• Centrale
• Montreal
• Terminal
• Stuck
• Reverse
• Backing
• up
• Austin
• Powers
• Style
• Luggage
• Cart

[bigga360]

should have lifted the tag wheels it would have made it some what easy to back out of that spot thats what i would have done

[MysticMTL]

@bigga360 You make a good point. It does make it easier to turn sharp corners, it would only make sense to back out of a tight spot it would help turn easier.

[King10Sooted]

The new buses are nice, but they are uncomfortable as hell. This terminal does suck to by the way.

We are getting a brand new terminal where I work for Greyhound.

[MysticMTL]

There is a brand new indoor terminal that was built a few years ago, right next door, but they just use it to store buses now, because the owner of the building ran out of money before finishing construction and they were supposed to tear the old terminal down and finish the rest of the new building, but it never panned out. The new terminal section is complete, but they ran out of money to build an entrance and tunnel from the subway station into the new terminal, so they won't use it.

[nova9403]

Tight squeeze!

[MysticMTL]

Yeah, he had some help though. But parking is tight at this terminal, and it will be even worse once they start using the inside terminal, whenever they finish it.

[doggsho]

@MysticMTL and bigga360, just because the tag wheel is rolling doesn't mean that the axle is loaded. The X45's can release the pressure, and then also actually lift the tag on up (if ground level clearance is not too skewed) off the ground...

[doggsho]

Even so, just look very carefully at the geometry -or trigonometry for that matter-, of the task at hand here; the turn wheelbase from the front to drive wheels does not facilitate the required turn radius to back a straight shot. Now here's the thumper, the tag axle on these new schools are set to automatically relieve the air pressure off the tag when put in reverse; I think it can be manually lifted on up off the ground -not sure about though.

[wolevet97]

haha, the name just makes it even funnier. XD

[Chesterbarnes1]

Christ! Those new Prevost coaches must be very long!  Incredible!

[King10Sooted]

@MysticMTL Yea, I know. I work for Greyhound in Binghamton, NY. We deal with Montreal stuff a lot. Our new terminal is set to open in June. Should be nice when it is done.