DART fleet changes

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DART fleet changes; Update with Gilligs!
Topic Started: Nov 11 2008, 11:25 PM (75 Views)
Tritransit Area	Nov 11 2008, 11:25 PM Post #1
Transit Enthusiast Posts: 2,243 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: February 17, 2005	Well, I guess it isn't news, but a lot of Phantoms are being retired. Many of them are parked in two lots. Some of them had the entire scheme removed (perhaps for sale?) and others are still painted. They all have their roof numbers, though. I also spotted a couple of Champion Contenders parked in the bus lot as well. I couldn't see the numbers, but I imagine those were ex-Dover division buses. Dover, as far as I know, is just about 100% Gillig Low Floor. When I was there in August, the only non-low floor bus I saw was operating on the 100, which only runs during peak times as the reverse loop of another route. I'm wondering if DART is giving Krapf's Transit any low floors to use for the 59 service, which used Champion Contenders beforehand. Also, I saw roughly 6 (?) hybrids parked. I'm not sure if they were all new or not (I think they were parked with the rest of the active fleet). Hopefully none of them were the "BRTs" as all of them had the traditional back (and I hate BRTs with the regular back). That's all I could see from the Amtrak train today!



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