amartin1982 Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Last month during Memorial Day weekend and holiday, I was up on Michigan Avenue near the river and Wacker Drive taking pictures of NABI buses while I was at NBC Tower Cityfront Center plaza where people with cameras taking pictures. Check out my cool pictures that I took and let me know what you think. Has anyone up on Michigan Ave in downtown taking pictures? Thanks, Alfie B) Quote
MVTArider Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Last month during Memorial Day weekend and holiday, I was up on Michigan Avenue near the river and Wacker Drive taking pictures of NABI buses while I was at NBC Tower Cityfront Center plaza where people with cameras taking pictures. Check out my cool pictures that I took and let me know what you think. Has anyone up on Michigan Ave in downtown taking pictures? Thanks, Alfie Nice pictures. These NABI buses look less tired than the ones I saw when I was visiting the Auto Show and joyriding on the CTA earlier this year. Were these NABIs at the end of a route? They look like they're not very full from what I can tell. Quote
Guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Ill tell you what, Downtown is probably the best area to take bus and rail photographs without worrying about getting hasseled. There are so many people around, no one will pay attention to what youre doing. I think its better than being around a bus garage or a rail station where the chances of being challenged are greater. You see many tourists around downtown with cameras so a busfan wouldnt even get a second look. The best part about downtown is that you have so many buses of CTA and Pace from different operating garages that you have a wide variety of equipment to document as well as catching your favorite bus. Quote
Kevin Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 The best part about downtown is that you have so many buses of CTA and Pace from different operating garages that you have a wide variety of equipment to document as well as catching your favorite bus. With CTA receiving more and more New Flyers everyday, that statement is becoming less valid. ;) Quote
Guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 With CTA receiving more and more New Flyers everyday, that statement is becoming less valid. Thats why time is critical, if youre going to get your shots before these buses dispppear, you need to take them now. This will be a New Flyer town! Quote
Busjack Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Were these NABIs at the end of a route? They look like they're not very full from what I can tell.Since the pictures were in front of or opposite the Wrigley Building, the northside buses would be either half unloaded southbound or half loaded northbound. Its hard to tell if "they're not very full" with all the reflections off the windows, but if it was the rush hour, they would be over capacity, at least by the time they reached Oak Street. (A possible exception is if the northbound trip started at Michigan and Randolph or Wacker, in which case picking up would have just started.) Also, for history or MeTV buffs, the "Dr. Bob Hartley building" is in the background of the first and last pictures. Quote
Busjack Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Thats why time is critical, if youre going to get your shots before these buses dispppear, you need to take them now. This will be a New Flyer town!You'll still have 700 low floor buses of other makes (NABI and Nova), compared to 1213 NFs. Conversely, unless something radically changes, you won't see a 6000 downtown. But it does appear that large cities are going to bigger options and more homogeneous fleets. NYC is becoming mostly Orion (although there will be variety between flat front Orion VIIs and Next Gens) and LA is pretty much all NABI (although, again, some variety between conventional, BRT, and Compobus models). Quote
BusHunter Posted June 5, 2008 Report Posted June 5, 2008 Thats why time is critical, if youre going to get your shots before these buses dispppear, you need to take them now. This will be a New Flyer town! No kidding!! Soon he'll be taking pictures of New Flyer 60 footers. They'll become preferred over the troublesome NABI's. Quote
geneking7320 Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Thats why time is critical, if youre going to get your shots before these buses dispppear, you need to take them now. This will be a New Flyer town! Do you folks think it might be time for the CTA to consider changing its livery? How about the scheme used on the 30footers or maybe the treatment of that Flx 6k from a few years ago? Gene Quote
Busjack Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Do you folks think it might be time for the CTA to consider changing its livery? How about the scheme used on the 30footers or maybe the treatment of that Flx 6k from a few years ago? GeneThe BRTs will have something different. However, it looks like we'll have the current on the rest of the NF order. The 500s seem whimsical, which may go along with a smaller bus, but not the bigger one. I still have the feeling that the swish and the CTA logo look like a seal juggling a ball. Quote
tonytavell Posted March 28, 2009 Report Posted March 28, 2009 Last month during Memorial Day weekend and holiday, I was up on Michigan Avenue near the river and Wacker Drive taking pictures of NABI buses while I was at NBC Tower Cityfront Center plaza where people with cameras taking pictures. Check out my cool pictures that I took and let me know what you think. Has anyone up on Michigan Ave in downtown taking pictures? Thanks, Alfie nice pics, I have videos at http://youtube.com/jirehmartin Quote
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