RJL6000 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Add bus 4320 to the 103rd roster. It is on the #6 at this moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.cta85 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Add bus 4320 to the 103rd roster. It is on the #6 at this moment. Also add 4337 and 4351 to 103rd roster I saw them parked in the garage as I was pulling in this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted February 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 #4350 is on the #6 today. #4351, #4335 is on the #J14 this afternoon. #4348 was also on the #6, but I don't think it's appearing on Bustracker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman8119 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 #4350 is on the #6 today. #4351, #4335 is on the #J14 this afternoon. #4348 was also on the #6, but I don't think it's appearing on Bustracker. All that money spent on the supposed "BRT" to change the route number and wrap buses, yet 4300s are all over the 14. So much for identifiable unique equipment. What a joke...for 6 whole minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted February 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 All that money spent on the supposed "BRT" to change the route number and wrap buses, yet 4300s are all over the 14. So much for identifiable unique equipment. What a joke...for 6 whole minutes. They should just wrap some #4300's (maybe half of what 103rd gets) Seems funny to have the artist rendering showing these new buses on the #J14 and they end up wrapping #4000's. I think they intended to have the #4300's for the #J14 but there was a delay in shipping and they were stuck wrapping the older buses. BTW, speaking of artics I read this week the reason the CTA got those seats on the #4150-#4207's were because those were in stock at the factory and someone (I don't know who) didn't want to wait to order the other seats that were in the #4000's. BTW, another new bus is out on the #6, #4352. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam92 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 They should just wrap some #4300's (maybe half of what 103rd gets) Seems funny to have the artist rendering showing these new buses on the #J14 and they end up wrapping #4000's. I think they intended to have the #4300's for the #J14 but there was a delay in shipping and they were stuck wrapping the older buses. BTW, speaking of artics I read this week the reason the CTA got those seats on the #4150-#4207's were because those were in stock at the factory and someone (I don't know who) didn't want to wait to order the other seats that were in the #4000's. BTW, another new bus is out on the #6, #4352. Does that mean that the 4150's weren't supposed to be longtitutional? And what about the lighting? People on here say that they are the same as the others, but they look like dots while 4000-4149 have a whole bar of LED's. Hard to explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted February 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Does that mean that the 4150's weren't supposed to be longtitutional? And what about the lighting? People on here say that they are the same as the others, but they look like dots while 4000-4149 have a whole bar of LED's. Hard to explain. I don't know but it does sound like someone was in an awful hurry to get these buses to Chicago so your statement may have some merit with various parts being different. I wonder if there was any political influence to get those buses here by a certain date? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 I don't know but it does sound like someone was in an awful hurry to get these buses to Chicago so your statement may have some merit with various parts being different. I wonder if there was any political influence to get those buses here by a certain date? The only thing said was that ARRA money had to be spent. And, of course, there were 226 broken buses in the yards. There was someone on the CTA Tattler making the leap that the only reason the 4300s have InSight seats is because Seattle wanted them,* but the 4150s sure don't correspond to what WMATA supposedly bought with its part of the contract at issue (BRTs), Unless someone was on the floor at New Flyer, I think we are going overboard with suppositions again. __________ *I had only brought up the Seattle point because he thought that because the 4300s had the same seats as most of the other buses, CTA had come to its senses over the rail cars, but I said that I doubted that the Rail Engineer had any involvement in that decision. Of course, according to a Baltimore poster, NF just happened to have 14 shells for "rejected CTA buses" on its floor, too. And it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneking7320 Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hi Folks; Does anyone have a feel for how many artics 77th Garage will retain after the Ryan Red Line work is completed and shuttles are no longer running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hi Folks; Does anyone have a feel for how many artics 77th Garage will retain after the Ryan Red Line work is completed and shuttles are no longer running? Well 77th would have to get some artics first before we go into that speculation. So far they haven't. The emphasis is still stacking artics at NP, 103rd, and Kedzie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
See Tea Eh Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 There was someone on the CTA Tattler making the leap that the only reason the 4300s have InSight seats is because Seattle wanted them,*That's an interesting theory, given that Seattle doesn't have the same seats in their buses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 4348 is now in service working J14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Just rode 4343 on #66 this morning. Gotta love that new bus smell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroShadow Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Well 77th would have to get some artics first before we go into that speculation. So far they haven't. The emphasis is still stacking artics at NP, 103rd, and Kedzie. 77th has artics (both 4000 and 4300 series) parked along the fence on 79th, if that accounts for anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam92 Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 77th has artics (both 4000 and 4300 series) parked along the fence on 79th, if that accounts for anything... Those are just waiting for their assignment. Or in the 4000's case, maintenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJL6000 Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Just rode 4343 on #66 this morning. Gotta love that new bus smell... As of mid-morning, it's on the #151 short trip to Belmont/Halsted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJL6000 Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Bus 4355 is now in service, on the #151 short run to Water Tower. It is unclear whether it is a Kedzie or a North Park garage run since both garages (plus Chicago Garage) operate such short runs on the route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Bus 4355 is now in service, on the #151 short run to Water Tower. It is unclear whether it is a Kedzie or a North Park garage run since both garages (plus Chicago Garage) operate such short runs on the route. I got a feeling that one came out of Kedzie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Just rode 4343 on #66 this morning. Gotta love that new bus smell... Am I missing something here? This is a Chicago Ave route from the Chicago Ave garage. There is no indication that this garage was slated for any artics. I don't know if this garage is capable of hosting 60 ft artics, similar to 74th's predicament. The only ways I can see an artic on 66 is as a loaner, a run from another garage, or training for the upcoming Wells.construction project where some artics could be temporarily parked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted February 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Am I missing something here? This is a Chicago Ave route from the Chicago Ave garage. There is no indication that this garage was slated for any artics. I don't know if this garage is capable of hosting 60 ft artics, similar to 74th's predicament. The only ways I can see an artic on 66 is as a loaner, a run from another garage, or training for the upcoming Wells.construction project where some artics could be temporarily parked. Kedzie has some early morning runs on the #66, starting this last pick. That is a Kedzie bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted February 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Looks like CTA is not running too many #4300's on the #6 today. Early this morning #4326 jackknifed at 47th/Lake Park according to ABC 7 news. Can't seem to find a link about it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Looks like CTA is not running too many #4300's on the #6 today. Early this morning #4326 jackknifed at 47th/Lake Park according to ABC 7 news. Can't seem to find a link about it though. Mentioned here. Not a headline, but just put CTA in the search box. Update: The CTA bus part of the story is at 4:07 of the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJL6000 Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Am I missing something here? This is a Chicago Ave route from the Chicago Ave garage. There is no indication that this garage was slated for any artics. I don't know if this garage is capable of hosting 60 ft artics, similar to 74th's predicament. The only ways I can see an artic on 66 is as a loaner, a run from another garage, or training for the upcoming Wells.construction project where some artics could be temporarily parked. As BusHunter noted, Kedzie Garage has some AM rush period runs on that route. However, over the past several days the Kedzie-based runs on that route have been run largely with 40-footers (with a couple of artics mixed in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Are the artics out this afternoon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Are the artics out this afternoon? Yes they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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