andrethebusman Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 Need to get something figured out about 7900's - which ones have which kind of seats? Never have set foot on one, and being in FL now probably never will... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 17 minutes ago, andrethebusman said: Need to get something figured out about 7900's - which ones have which kind of seats? Never have set foot on one, and being in FL now probably never will... Hmm, you retired now??? It sounds like you are. If so I wish you all the best. Alot of people retire and leave the city. You've done alot in the transit community and everyone deserves a rest. I'm sure you'll check in though and maybe even visit the city from time to time. Never say never. Make sure to blow us up some warm air while your there!! To answer your question all buses have the standard seating. Except the 50 buses that start out at #8200 and end at #8249. They have the blue ones. Of course they are all freedman seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 2 hours ago, BusHunter said: freedman seats 4One Gemini, at Rahm's insistence. 8200-8249 have plastic inserts, others cloth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 On 11/20/2016 at 1:10 PM, BusHunter said: Hmm, you retired now??? It sounds like you are. If so I wish you all the best. Alot of people retire and leave the city. You've done alot in the transit community and everyone deserves a rest. I'm sure you'll check in though and maybe even visit the city from time to time. Never say never. Make sure to blow us up some warm air while your there!! To answer your question all buses have the standard seating. Except the 50 buses that start out at #8200 and end at #8249. They have the blue ones. Of course they are all freedman seats. You forgot to add that though they started out at FG to knock out some 6400s, those 50 blue seat Novas are now just about evenly split between Chicago, 74th, 77th and FG to conduct CTA's late started test on how well the seats do among riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 No need to comment about this accident. 11/18 around 12-1 AM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 13 hours ago, garmon757 said: No need to comment about this accident. 11/18 around 12-1 AM. That looks like it's on North Avenue. Wow. So I'm guessing the SUV collided with the car and sent the car crashing into the rear of the bus. This accident is one sign of an overall increase of reckless driving that I've been noticing across different parts of the city as the holidays get closer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 2 hours ago, jajuan said: That looks like it's on North Avenue. Wow. So I'm guessing the SUV collided with the car and sent the car crashing into the rear of the bus. This accident is one sign of an overall increase of reckless driving that I've been noticing across different parts of the city as the holidays get closer. Indeed. North and Halsted was the location but my guess that either the suv or the car was speeding through a yellow going on red light scenario while one of them was trying to make either a right or left turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 2 hours ago, garmon757 said: Indeed. North and Halsted was the location but my guess that either the suv or the car was speeding through a yellow going on red light scenario while one of them was trying to make either a right or left turn. Ok. I was pretty sure that looked to be right near the North/Clybourn Red Line stop next to the Intersection with Halsted. And yes the damage to both the car and SUV does like one of them was speeding through a yellow changing to a red while the other was making a turn causing them both to collide with the car then sent on a ricochet into the back of the bus. I witnessed a similar collision between a car and taxi last week at Western and Foster while transferring from an X49 to a 49B. The car sped through the intersection as yellow light turned red and clipped the front of the taxi when the taxi was attempting to turn left onto SB Western. The taxi had the right of way due to the light change, but the driver of the car played Russian roulette with how long it would stay on yellow. The taxi driver pulled into the 7Eleven lot at the intersection instead of making the intended left turn, thinking the car driver was going to stop to exchange insurance info. The car driver instead stopped a few seconds then continued on along Foster. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrethebusman Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 On 11/20/2016 at 2:10 PM, BusHunter said: To answer your question all buses have the standard seating. Except the 50 buses that start out at #8200 and end at #8249. They have the blue ones. Of course they are all freedman seats. All the soft seats have black inserts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 2 hours ago, andrethebusman said: All the soft seats have black inserts? All the soft seats on 8250-8324 have these inserts. http://chicagobus.org/buses/7900-nova/photos/267 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 On 11/23/2016 at 1:26 PM, andrethebusman said: All the soft seats have black inserts? To more clearly answer your question beyond just buses 8200 and higher, yes all the soft seats in the buses outside of buses 8200-49 have black inserts. Buses 8200-49 are the only ones in the whole 425 ordered that have the plastic blue seat inserts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 On November 22, 2016 at 6:58 PM, jajuan said: Ok. I was pretty sure that looked to be right near the North/Clybourn Red Line stop next to the Intersection with Halsted. And yes the damage to both the car and SUV does like one of them was speeding through a yellow changing to a red while the other was making a turn causing them both to collide with the car then sent on a ricochet into the back of the bus. I witnessed a similar collision between a car and taxi last week at Western and Foster while transferring from an X49 to a 49B. The car sped through the intersection as yellow light turned red and clipped the front of the taxi when the taxi was attempting to turn left onto SB Western. The taxi had the right of way due to the light change, but the driver of the car played Russian roulette with how long it would stay on yellow. The taxi driver pulled into the 7Eleven lot at the intersection instead of making the intended left turn, thinking the car driver was going to stop to exchange insurance info. The car driver instead stopped a few seconds then continued on along Foster. That just shows that nobody is safe in this city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Riding #8305, like who can get enough of that? I was wondering why they don't play go cubs go on the bus at least at Clark addison. They could play the first or second verse. Hmm is that sw4400 I see? Lol!! Well anyway somebody put this on the window of the bus!! Facepalm!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 I'm surprised to see no Novas on #66. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 5 minutes ago, ChicagoNova said: I'm surprised to see no Novas on #66. There have been some. For instance, math's tracker shows the following from yesterday morning (8:20 a.m.): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Just now, Busjack said: There have been some. For instance, math's tracker shows the following from yesterday morning (8:20 a.m.): That's funny. How come they're not showing up on the bus tracker that I'm looking at (http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/map/displaymap.jsp)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 16 minutes ago, ChicagoNova said: That's funny. How come they're not showing up on the bus tracker that I'm looking at (http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/map/displaymap.jsp)? The may not be out there on 66 at the moment, but it's a light day. They are out on other Chicago routes, though: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted May 16, 2017 Report Share Posted May 16, 2017 I was wondering why this #8200 on the #77 was so hot. I remembered oh yeah the ac is not so good on these buses!! So rather than sweat I decided to get off and check out the new Whole Foods market in Roscoe Village. When I came back to my stop I discovered all the buses are #8200's or most of them. Talk about bad luck!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny 5 Posted May 16, 2017 Report Share Posted May 16, 2017 Hey, guess what? I've encountered #8166 being in service on the route #85 today, and right now, it's currently out of the Chicago garage and inside the Forest Glen family. That's so rare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoNova Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 50 minutes ago, Johnny 5 said: Hey, guess what? I've encountered #8166 being in service on the route #85 today, and right now, it's currently out of the Chicago garage and inside the Forest Glen family. That's so rare... What!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Johnny 5 said: Hey, guess what? I've encountered #8166 being in service on the route #85 today, and right now, it's currently out of the Chicago garage and inside the Forest Glen family. That's so rare... 2 hours ago, ChicagoNova said: What!?? Let's calm down, @Johnny 5, @ChicagoNova. This may just be a temporary loaner to FG while some of their Novas might be parked around Wrigley right now. I saw at least one parked facing EB at Addison and Clark behind an artic. Also, the 1st Gen Novas might be a little down in numbers for obvious reasons(band-aid repairs), requiring a temporary borrow. If we see more than just #8166 on a FG route for an extended period, then I'd be inclined to think some roster changes may be occurring... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 16 hours ago, Johnny 5 said: Hey, guess what? I've encountered #8166 being in service on the route #85 today, and right now, it's currently out of the Chicago garage and inside the Forest Glen family. That's so rare... Could they finally be giving FG back some of it's Nova's it lost due to the "seat experiment?" 35 buses is quite a bit to lose and they could try to retire a couple more #6400's as they can't last forever. (although they could stand to transplant their AC system!! Not happening!! ) Hmm... 35 buses from #8199 is #8165.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 1 hour ago, BusHunter said: Could they finally be giving FG back some of it's Nova's it lost due to the "seat experiment?" 35 buses is quite a bit to lose and they could try to retire a couple more #6400's as they can't last forever. (although they could stand to transplant their AC system!! Not happening!! ) Hmm... 35 buses from #8199 is #8165.... @maths22 tracker today doesn't support it, including now: 8166 70: Division 70 -814 5 (Chicago). So @sw4400's theory of a loaner is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny 5 Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Did you know that one of the newer buses, including #8322 now has a "Northwestern Medicine" ad wrap applied? Truly rare! See this video right here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel bernero Posted August 13, 2017 Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 Here are two images of 8322 taken this afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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