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NJT 3000; It's Back!!!!
Topic Started: Feb 19 2008, 08:37 PM (559 Views)
Mark	Feb 19 2008, 08:37 PM Post #1
Advanced Transit Fan Posts: 436 Group: Members Member #6 Joined: February 18, 2005	After hiding out at Hamilton for awhile, NJT Flx Metro-B 3000 is back in revenue service. I rode it on the 403 on my way home. The interior is quite a mixed bag. The seats from the front to the rear doors, plus the back seat are the original seats when the bus was first manufactured. The seats on the raised platform looks like a mixed bag of original and the seat fabric used when the seats were rehabbed a few years ago, I guess they cannabalized a few B's to put seats back in the bus and run it in revenue service. Also, the bus was stripped of its farebox, and a register in in place of the box. I guess Washington Twp is short on serviceable Flxibles to drag this bus out of semi-retirement for service.



Tritransit Area	Feb 20 2008, 01:29 AM Post #2
Transit Enthusiast Posts: 2,242 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: February 17, 2005	Wow, the original brought back to service. NJT MUST be facing hard times! I have a feeling that the first batch of the NJT NABIs won't completely wipe out the entire fleet of Metro Bs just yet.



Van2006ko	Feb 20 2008, 06:01 AM Post #3
Foamer Posts: 2,528 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: February 16, 2005	WOW, an 20 year old bus operating!! hard times indeed!



drewtwp	Feb 21 2008, 12:41 PM Post #4
New Rider Posts: 6 Group: Members Member #400 Joined: March 15, 2007	3000 has been sitting in Washington twp over a year. The bus was mainly use as a wheelchair training bus for new drivers. The seats on the raised platform were taking out so that the area could be use as an in bus classroom. In the pass few weeks or so Washington twp decided to put the bus back in service do to the shortage of Metro B buses in the garage. At about 7:30 doing the hart of the morning rush there are no buses in the garage for pull out or breakdowns. So in other words Washington Twp is back in a corner with very little help. Plus we are getting a little heat from the big wigs in north jersey for having MCI's on the 400/403 lines.



Van2006ko	Feb 21 2008, 01:33 PM Post #5
Foamer Posts: 2,528 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: February 16, 2005	Well, this is what to come... Photo of NJT NABI



Geraldo Neoplan 3430	Apr 8 2008, 09:10 AM Post #6
The King of Transit Warrior Fan Posts: 223 Group: Members Member #94 Joined: July 13, 2006	I rode on bus #3000 on Route 400 in Center City to camden, the seats are different like other 3000s serice buses have. Geraldo G. B)



TRANSIT_FREAK	Jul 28 2008, 05:22 PM Post #7
Simpsonized! Posts: 2,646 Group: Members Member #865 Joined: August 2, 2007	Geraldo Neoplan 3430 Apr 8 2008, 09:10 AM I rode on bus #3000 on Route 400 in Center City to camden, the seats are different like other 3000s serice buses have. Geraldo G. B) I saw 3000 today in center city on the 400



septanjtmta	May 25 2009, 05:23 PM Post #8
Transit Fan Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #2,452 Joined: March 25, 2008	Hey, I rode it to Grandpa's house on the 459



silverliner_2	May 25 2009, 06:40 PM Post #9
Cab signal supporter. Railroad engineer. Girl chaser. Transit fan. Totally unpredictable! Posts: 321 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: June 2, 2005	Van2006ko Feb 21 2008, 01:33 PM Well, this is what to come... Photo of NJT NABI And so far, they're all hiding in Jersey City..... LOL, the pic didn't work....



newflyer_8008	May 29 2009, 09:29 AM Post #10
A person with a transit intrest Posts: 440 Group: Members Member #47 Joined: October 13, 2005	Well its funny cuz me and a friend rode megabus down to New York on Wenesday and 3041 was going through the Lincoln tunnel.



leopapi	Aug 5 2009, 05:32 AM Post #11
New Rider Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #2,712 Joined: July 30, 2009	They need to re-retire that bus.. I recently rode on it on the 406 line to Camden.. Top speed: 20 mph!! No kidding!



Tritransit Area	Aug 5 2009, 08:49 AM Post #12
Transit Enthusiast Posts: 2,242 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: February 17, 2005	Yikes! The a/c kills those poor buses. I can't wait to ride one later this week! :)



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