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Posted
9 hours ago, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

oh don’t worry a couple weeks ago every day i seen 1394 monday thru sunday i was like yo bro what’s up?

Thats how it was with me & 1388 back I. 16 when I was working a dead end job up in Skokie I seen 1388 everyday on the 85 

Posted
28 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

he’s down again?

Yep broke down again second time in a week and there’s a replacement bus that’s supposed to come soon

 

Update: 1391 was replaced by 1385 and is now with 8231 8271 1135 and 1161 serving the 90.

  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

In the past couple of hours I've seen at 3 break downs while on the 2 this evening 

#1173 @ 60th and Kenwood,#4315 @ 47th and Lake Park,and recently within the past 5 minutes #7947 @ Michigan and Wacker.

Posted
1 minute ago, YoungBusLover said:

In the past couple of hours I've seen at 3 break downs while on the 2 this evening 

#1173 @ 60th and Kenwood,#4315 @ 47th and Lake Park,and recently within the past 5 minutes #7947 @ Michigan and Wacker.

This is like 5 buses being towed tonight, 1955, 1239, 1173, 4315, and 7947. How crazy is that 

Posted
1 hour ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

This is like 5 buses being towed tonight, 1955, 1239, 1173, 4315, and 7947. How crazy is that 

Buses aren't always necessarily towed, some can have there issues fixed once maintenance arrives, if the situation is a little more complex to the point where the bus is inoperable then a wrecker will come get it. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

Buses aren't always necessarily towed, some can have there issues fixed once maintenance arrives, if the situation is a little more complex to the point where the bus is inoperable then a wrecker will come get it. 

Oh I didn’t know that but that’s cool. I remember a pace bus being repaired at its breakdown spot last year .

Posted
3 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

Buses aren't always necessarily towed, some can have there issues fixed once maintenance arrives, if the situation is a little more complex to the point where the bus is inoperable then a wrecker will come get it. 

Sometimes theyll come crawling in if they can make it. We had a bus mess up last week in oak lawn. It wouldnt go past 5 mph. It limped into the garage with a police escort on south lagrange. 

Posted
5 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Sometimes theyll come crawling in if they can make it. We had a bus mess up last week in oak lawn. It wouldnt go past 5 mph. It limped into the garage with a police escort on south lagrange. 

Yeah I had a similar issue last summer on 43rd all the buses on that street were having issues and I had #7920 with engine issues. The bus itself wouldn't go past 20 mph so supervision instructed me to take State street back to the garage. Took a while to get there but I made it. The transmission itself was jumping out of gear so bad I thought I was going to stall out a few times. They initially asked me if I could take the expressway back and I told I would be a sitting duck if I even tried to knowing how bad a shape the bus was in.

Posted
2 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

Yeah I had a similar issue last summer on 43rd all the buses on that street were having issues and I had #7920 with engine issues. The bus itself wouldn't go past 20 mph so supervision instructed me to take State street back to the garage. Took a while to get there but I made it. The transmission itself was jumping out of gear so bad I thought I was going to stall out a few times. They initially asked me if I could take the expressway back and I told I would be a sitting duck if I even tried to knowing how bad a shape the bus was in.

Dam sounds like the 7900's are due for a rehab well the oldest ones are reaching 7 years old 

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