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600-series Proterra BE40/ZX5 - Updates


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1 hour ago, Busjack said:

On the June Finance subcommittee agenda:

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Technically there isn't a contract to assign, but who's going to get it??? Who's saying New Flyer?

Is this basically a  "reassignment " of Proterra's assignment?  Perhaps the new owners can't or won't fill the CTA order for Proterras that would still have needed to be built and delivered.  Perhaps this will also prompt Pace to act accordingly.

New Flyer should be the obvious favorite here, but we are talking about the CTA.  So it wouldn't surprise me if Gillig actually would win this assignment.   

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14 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Is this basically a  "reassignment " of Proterra's assignment?  Perhaps the new owners can't or won't fill the CTA order for Proterras that would still have needed to be built and delivered.  Perhaps this will also prompt Pace to act accordingly.

New Flyer should be the obvious favorite here, but we are talking about the CTA.  So it wouldn't surprise me if Gillig actually would win this assignment.   

Based on what BC Transit said and that CTA contracts were listed in the same court order, I assume that there is no contract. However, given how the contract with the body supplier were handled, it's possible that Phoenix wants to renegotiate the contract. We'll have to wait for either it being discussed tomorrow or the ordinance posted to find out what happened.

As for Pace, maybe Metzger will say something tomorrow, or Pace may just be congratulating itself for making 40 years and praying it makes 41, but it was not listed on the court order.

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7 hours ago, Busjack said:

We'll have to wait for either it being discussed tomorrow or the ordinance posted to find out what happened.

 

Item 19.A-1: "No questions."..

I guess we'll have to wait for the ordinance.

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4 hours ago, Tcmetro said:

Here's the ordinance: 

https://www.transitchicago.com/file.aspx?DocumentId=9679

Reassigned to Phoenix Cars (Proterra successor) with no change to the contract.

I noted the possibility of that, but don't now see why the rejection and board approval of the same terms were necessary, when that would have been the result of the bankruptcy court's order of sale. Phoenix must have convinced CTA of something in the 3 month interim (the reference to honoring all service obligations may be a clue).

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On 8/11/2024 at 11:58 AM, YoungBusLover said:

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Also #600,#602,#603 & #622 are at 77th as well. Farebox has been removed among parts from #600. 

On the other hand, @maths22's tracker indicates most of the rest have been in service recently:

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12 out of 23. Could be better, but not so bad.

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5 hours ago, Busjack said:

On the other hand, @maths22's tracker indicates most of the rest have been in service recently:

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12 out of 23. Could be better, but not so bad.

It's a pleasant surprise to see half the fleet back in action, I hope whatever issues they had were resolved for the colder months ahead.

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On 10/17/2024 at 7:13 PM, Smolensk said:

Thank you, I appreciate your response.  But the detour was along 3 major thoroughfares.  There were several stoplights along the path where she could have let me off and I would have been quite happy.

 

On 4/15/2018 at 2:19 PM, Aiden Tabucic said:

Are they going to repair 700 or is it just going to be 701 now

That’s a really really good question! I hope so and just run it on the #2/ and or 79th street .

 

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22 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

Those are retired permanently.

 

10 hours ago, Adam Hubbard said:

Is 700 and 701 expected to come out of retirement to get repairs and be back in service?

@Adam Hubbard:You don't seem able to read what was posted up the thread. Why repost a question that was asked and answered?

15 hours ago, Al Mac said:

Waste of money! 

I was thinking this is the wrong thread, but the 700s one is so old that I couldnt find it. The original purchase was for a 2-year trial. What was probably the waste of money (and I don't know if it was local or federal money) was the change order in Ordinance 018-051:

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Looks like for the $1.2 million, CTA only got a couple of trips on 79 and the Midway charger.

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