Anyone know the details of this from New Flyer's web site?
"In addition, the Commonwealth of Virginia awarded an umbrella contract to New Flyer for the provision of buses to any Virginia public transit agency, as well as to certain agencies in neighbouring states. As with other previously announced umbrella contracts, no EUs have been added to New Flyer's backlog. This award however, enables procurements to proceed quickly and management anticipates orders under this contract in the coming quarters."
Fred did inform me of this. Here's the actual press release for those that didn't see it...
http://newflyer.com/index/cms-filesystem-action/investor_relations/news%20releases/2011_07_18_q2_orders_and_backlog.pdf
It has been rumored that there are some New Flyer articulateds already here in Richmond. Some people spotted them a few months back, but since then, there's been no mention of them.
I have not seen any of those artics, and the GRTC CEO (Eldridge Coles) denied (well, sideskirted) around that question when I asked him about them in the March meeting.