sw4400 Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Has anyone heard anything more of this bus since someone posted this about a year or so back? Are they actually being made for and used by Transit companies? http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7072/10...RTSExtremea.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busfan4022 Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 OMG that bus looks more horrible than the 4400s! Look at the front, it's deformed! The low-floor part actually looks good for a RTS. But overall, that bus FAILS. Hope not for transit companies. You can kinda get a hint from the back door they will have them for it. :'D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneking7320 Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 OMG that bus looks more horrible than the 4400s! Look at the front, it's deformed! The low-floor part actually looks good for a RTS. But overall, that bus FAILS. Hope not for transit companies. You can kinda get a hint from the back door they will have them for it. :'D The RTS front has been looking like this since the Memphis transit system purchased some in the 1990s (I think). I think the buses would be better looking if they went to the front used by CTA (bigger bumper,etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTA 9537 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I think they look pretty good at least is is an older design still being made. It actuallylook like a bus no a box like so mant of the new buses of today. I am not a big fan of low floors but I think this one looks good at least from the outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Don of All Buses Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 OMG that bus looks more horrible than the 4400s! Look at the front, it's deformed! The low-floor part actually looks good for a RTS. But overall, that bus FAILS. Hope not for transit companies. You can kinda get a hint from the back door they will have them for it. :'D I think they look a whole lot better then the NovaBus LFS..... talk about ugly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTS Book Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 One was sent to Altoona, as far as I know; I however do not know if it was a 40' model modified from Nova's 42.5' prototype or whathaveyou. Keep in mind one thing: MTS never did anything 'new' - the vast majority of the engineering changes, like the T-drive modules or even the low-floor RTS variant, were all originally developed by Nova Bus before selling the plant in 2002. Knowing that really makes you wonder why it would then take four years for barely any buses to be built. Someone there really mucked up the financials, and I'm pretty sure we'll never know how badly they did... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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