More Bus Moves

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

5 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

#1355-1362 have popped up at Forest Glen.

Welcome back, it's been 2 years since those buses been there.

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

North Park appears to be getting 4022, 4024-4025 at least. 4025 will be on the 151 in a couple of minutes.

[ArcherRider]

4166 went to P from K

[busfan2847]

2 hours ago, ArcherRider said:

4166 went to P from K

K to P

[Chammon Moore]

1007,1009 P to 3

[jajuan]

23 hours ago, RJL6000 said:

 

The transfers of 1000s from P to other garages means that more 8700s and 8800s are coming to P. 

In part as it looks like P got more artics in place of some of those 1000s.

[jajuan]

I noticed 8757 returned to NP earlier this month after having spent a month down at 77th.

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

4321 and 4326 are also at NP

[Master58]

13 minutes ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

4321 and 4326 are also at NP

Damn NP is getting all the artics.  Lol might as well give them the whole fleet lol

[renardo870]

18 minutes ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

4321 and 4326 are also at NP

Why is 3 losing artics this go round?

[Sam92]

10 minutes ago, renardo870 said:

Why is 3 losing artics this go round?

Might be trying to consolidate all the 4300s 

[Busjack]

1 minute ago, Sam92 said:

Might be trying to consolidate all the 4300s 

Might make sense. The next generation i supposed to be electric, and 103 is high priority and NP is low on the garage conversion list.

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

5 hours ago, Master58 said:

Damn NP is getting all the artics.  Lol might as well give them the whole fleet lol

4322 and 4324 didn’t move

[YoungBusLover]

#8000 - #8009 are at 103rd and these appear to be permanent. 

[Master58]

13 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

4322 and 4324 didn’t move

4306 did.

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

42 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8000 - #8009 are at 103rd and these appear to be permanent. 

same with 1355-1364

[Chammon Moore]

1106,1109,1110,1112,1116,1128,1129,1142,1149,1154,1166-1172 P to K

[Chammon Moore]

1200,1201,1209 77th to 103rd

[Chammon Moore]

1004 103rd to 77th

1214 77th to 103rd

1208 77th to 103rd

[jajuan]

Another possible reason for so many moves to 103rd and K could be that a fair number of the medium and heavier routes out of the reported 19 overall seeing service increases come from those two garages.

[Mr.cta85]

12 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8000 - #8009 are at 103rd and these appear to be permanent. 

So what did 74th get in exchange for losing 8000-8009?

[Al Mac]

On 11/19/2024 at 4:13 PM, YoungBusLover said:

So it's time to give them the ole TMC treatment from 2008? 😅 In all seriousness though NP is up to 27 #8350s with two more popping up for the evening rush being #8777 and #8793, whatever CTA decides to do will be determined before the spring pick next year.

This is some good info right here💯 I feel like they’ll get some modern new flyer buses that they should’ve been ordered 10 years ago. 
 

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

Forest Glen didn’t give anything up for the buses they got from 77th (yet)

[jtrussel]

As far as the 1000s new flyers go did has the process of rebuilding those select few hundred began. I see they want to keep those until 2029 the latest. My main question is it really worth putting a 100+ million dollars into busses that are already closing in on the 20 yr mark. CTA wanted to retire the first batch of 1000s (2006-7) models but those are the least affected by rust. We can all see the 2008-9 flyers are being retired due to rust. As much as I like the 1000s hey have served heir ime well and that money should go to new busses. I feel he cta just throws away money they did the 6000 flxibles he same most were only a couple years out of rehab and then was mothballed and retired. I could be wrong what are your guys thoughts

[jajuan]

8 hours ago, jtrussel said:

As far as the 1000s new flyers go did has the process of rebuilding those select few hundred began. I see they want to keep those until 2029 the latest. My main question is it really worth putting a 100+ million dollars into busses that are already closing in on the 20 yr mark. CTA wanted to retire the first batch of 1000s (2006-7) models but those are the least affected by rust. We can all see the 2008-9 flyers are being retired due to rust. As much as I like the 1000s hey have served heir ime well and that money should go to new busses. I feel he cta just throws away money they did the 6000 flxibles he same most were only a couple years out of rehab and then was mothballed and retired. I could be wrong what are your guys thoughts

Ordinarily your comment would be true, but the 8350s are the last diesel bus order CTA is doing per its own ordinances and recently passed state law that came on the heels of those ordinances. All bus orders after this current one are to be for electric buses, and as we all can see CTA has run into plenty of kinks and bumps to iron out with the electric buses they've brought into the fleet so far. Even without the rough spots, they only brought a relatively small few online as they've yet to lock down a funding path for needed infrastructure to maintain electrics beyond what they already brought in. Given that, they still need something to keep the system running on the bus side until the transition begins progressing further. So under those dynamics they're currently working around, rebuilding older buses is a suitable solution.