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An abandoned NABI bus of the Free Enterprise System at Sheridan Road and Belmont Ave- snow had plastered every surface it could in the hurricane-force winds that whipped through the side streets to the lake. Some 400 other vehicles are abandoned on Lake Shore Drive, and people are only now trying to find their cars.
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New Flyer hybrids have issues with the cold, mainly some use NiMH batteries and those batteries chemically dump their charge at something like 4 degrees C.
Articulated busses in general have huge issues with even the smallest hills in the snow.
Guess what Seattle has? Guess what form of transportation you might not be able to use when it snows in Seattle?
Articulated busses in general have huge issues with even the smallest hills in the snow.
Guess what Seattle has? Guess what form of transportation you might not be able to use when it snows in Seattle?
lol We have different models from new flyer. D40LF, DE40LFR,DE41LFR both the older design and last years and DE60LFR. Ive noticed something about how our transit system works. What thy tend to do Is use the D40LF and DE40LFR models more in the spring towards the summer months. It got quite cold here in the past few days and I've only seen one disabled bus during. At one pint our system shut down cause of snow.
The newer models I've noticed performed quite well. The articulates are just no good I tell you. On a slippery road the mid section gives and all control is lost. One nearly jack-knifed on a road when we had icing. The newest models the DE40LFR models which are hybrid do fine for the most part as far as traction go in snow. The ones that aren't hybrids the D40LF and models usually stay warm because if the full on diesel engine a Cummins ISM.
I'm pretty sure that Seattle transit just comes to a stand still XD
Here's what our fleet is made up of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA_Ma.....t_Fleet_Roster
The newer models I've noticed performed quite well. The articulates are just no good I tell you. On a slippery road the mid section gives and all control is lost. One nearly jack-knifed on a road when we had icing. The newest models the DE40LFR models which are hybrid do fine for the most part as far as traction go in snow. The ones that aren't hybrids the D40LF and models usually stay warm because if the full on diesel engine a Cummins ISM.
I'm pretty sure that Seattle transit just comes to a stand still XD
Here's what our fleet is made up of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA_Ma.....t_Fleet_Roster
The Bredas? Yeah, they were even worse when they were dual-mode buses, with the diesel engines in the back and the trolley overhead contacts on the roof. Way too much weight for an underpowered bus. But I loved those things anyway- used to ride one a lot on the #255/256 into the bus tunnel before they replaced them all with the NF hybrids. They work much, much better now that they're straight-electrics, but NOT in the snow.. My favourite of all though, were the MAN trolley artics. Nice seats, smooth-riding, built like a rock, old as shit, but kept on going, going going. Oddly enough, there's one near me now, at the Illinois Railway Museum- they run it occasionally.
I know, that's why I was speaking about them in the past tense =P Also, Chicago had a bunch of ex-King County Metro MAN diesel artics until 2004 to cover a bus shortage. Funnily enough, the entire fleet of NABI artics that replaced them are now out-of-service and stored because of litigation over a defective piece of the accordion joint. They've all been replaced with New Flyer DE60LFs, some of which actually came from a cancelled order for Seattle! It all comes full-circle...
http://www.chicagobus.org/photo/7400-2 There's one of CTA's ex-Seattle MAN artics.
I know the storm out in the central was awful I was hit by two blizzard that dumped more than two feet of snow. But the blizzards that I was hit made it look like more than two feet by a long shot and shoveling the snow was brutal as I had to shovl out my elderly relatives and my friends for such a long time. But the only upturn is, was I was payed for it.
really pisses me off when people put comments saying that their city has had worse and whatnot.
people, take in note other places don't get this type of weather often. :/
but yes, this was right after the city crew had already done their job (which is still somewhat not complete in some places XD)
you should have snapped pix of the lakeshore drive man :P
people, take in note other places don't get this type of weather often. :/
but yes, this was right after the city crew had already done their job (which is still somewhat not complete in some places XD)
you should have snapped pix of the lakeshore drive man :P
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