neospaceblue Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 I am new here, and I joined because I was looking for a transportation message board to get an answer to a question I have had for a year. I was wondering if anyone here has any information or pictures of the Flxible Metro G Prototype. I have looked everywhere, but haven't found one result. Can anyone help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Is there any evidence that one existed? We had a prior debate here about who had the last Flxibles (maybe Pittsburgh won), but there was no debate that they were Metros of the type generally of the same model as the CTA 6000s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 I am new here, and I joined because I was looking for a transportation message board to get an answer to a question I have had for a year. I was wondering if anyone here has any information or pictures of the Flxible Metro G Prototype. I have looked everywhere, but haven't found one result. Can anyone help me? A Low Floor Flxible? I never heard of one, but Flxible went under due to I believe lack of sales or just bankruptcy. This "G" Prototype was probably just in planning stages to debut sometime in 1996 or 1997, but was never made. As for the last Flxible Metros ever made.... we got them.... 1994-1995 Metro Models 6000-6329. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTS Book Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 The only firm info (so to speak) comes from a 1994 TRB report on LF buses in North America: The Flxible Corporation has developed concept designs called the "Common Sense Dropped Center" bus. The center section of this bus design is lower to provide an entrance height of about 190 mm (7.5 in.) (kneeled) at the rear door. Flxible also has a concept design for an articulated model of this bus concept. Flxible estimated that these buses would be in production in 1996. Page 16, accesible in PDF here: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tsyn02.pdf I'd love to write a book on the Metro, but I don't have contacts who were @ the company at the time when this all happened. I did with the RTS; the former chief engineer from GM even told me they'd mocked up a partial-LF RTS body-in-white in the early 1980s, but nothing ever came of it. Wasn't even fully built, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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