TTC GM New Look #2600

This is a video showing TTC #2600 on Route 96 Wilson apart of the only used buses the TTC runs today. This is a 1979 GM New Look purchased by the Société de transport de Montréal or STM for short and was numbered 22-009. To prevent bus shortages the TTC purchased many New Looks retired by the STM because they retired them due to age and had similar specifications. 2600 is the prototype bus for the Ex-Montrealer rebuild and was finished in June 1999. When the TTC found many of its own buses were still in good condition for rebuild many Montreal New Looks did not get rebuild so only 20 were rebuilt. These New looks have McKay gates and standee windows which makes them different than the standard TTC New look visually. Today only 5 of the 20 are active, 2600, 2609, 2611, 2613 and 2615.

Edit October 24, 2006: 2600 has been retired in October 2006

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• TTC
• GM
• Fishbowl
• new
• look
• STM
• weston
• wilson

[retroolschool]

That aong with hundreds of MontreaL fishbowls shoulda stayed here, in Montreal. The STM would have saved millions of dollars rebuilding these instead of buying shitty Nova low floors! Man I miss the old days...

[JeganV]

Sadly it was probably easier for Montreal's politicians to go with new Novas to make the claim they're keeping Quebec jobs and at the same time "improving" transit with low floor accessible buses, the operational portion of transit is where they stay away from which is likely where your concern about the Novas come from.

[ttcsubwayfan]

What was that squeaky sound at around 0:38?

[JeganV]

You mean the noise after the doors closed?

[ttcsubwayfan]

Yes, that noise.

[JeganV]

Air released from locking the rear doors. They're pneumatically operated.

[SkunkRailfan]

I remeber getting on that bus all the time as a kid. :'( God! I feel crying. knowing that I will never relives those happy times of riding a bus in toronto.

[gmcbuses]

@JeganV Hi Jegan I"m curious have you replaced the camera yet, to make more videos?

[gmcbuses]

@retroolschool The woman bus drivers STM have are very pretty, and the skirts they wear during the summertime.

[jackiechan511]

So why are Quebec politicians forcing its transit agencies to buy buses only from Novabus because the plant is located somewhere in Quebec. The irony here is that transit agencies in Ontario buy Novabus LFS whereas Quebec agencies wont buy from Orion (made in Ontario) or New Flyer (made in Manitoba). This is in addition to Ontario sending billions of $ in equalization payments.

Talk about dirty politics?

[downsview34]

u might wanna fix the description

all of them are gone al long time ago

[retroolschool]

Funnu though how the STM "says" riders like the low floors. Bunch of B.S. I rode a classic yesterday, and the chic driving it drove it like a pro.