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Title: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: WMAveteran on May 09, 2013, 09:36:28 PM
 
Starting tomorrow the MTA 201 service will have a new look.  Buses will be wrapped with a really slick BWI themed livery.  Montgomery County to BWI and Arundel Mills just $5!(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/945112_516260381744262_653010002_n.jpg) (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=516260381744262&set=a.194855000551470.36145.177550238948613&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf)

I only wish they had added something to represent AMKTRAK at the BWI Station.
Title: Re: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: Chargerdodge9 on May 09, 2013, 10:03:40 PM
Question, how many MCIs does Bmore MTA have anyway?
Title: Re: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: WMAveteran on May 13, 2013, 06:05:26 PM
It is difficult to count the MCIs MTA owns because most of the coaches are used, stored and serviced by the contractors who operate the commuter bus services (Eyre, Dillon's, Atlantic Coast Charters, etc.)
Title: Re: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: Chargerdodge9 on May 13, 2013, 06:19:34 PM
I see.
Title: Re: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: NewFlyer9736BCT on May 15, 2013, 11:57:15 AM
The ones that are actually branded in the MTA Maryland livery are numbered 119C to 186C. However, since most of the routes are operated by contractors, you often see non-MTA branded coaches on the commuter routes (for example, the 991 is operated by Eyre, when I go to Shady Grove during pm rush, I often see Eyre and MTA buses on the 991).

About the wrap: looks nice, it's too bad I never got shots of the old one, but I'll keep a lookout for the new wraps when I go to Shady Grove
Title: Re: Cool new wrap on coaches used for MTA Route 201 service!
Post by: WMAveteran on July 30, 2013, 01:43:37 AM
Photo of MCI D4500 coach 172C in new Route 201 wrap at the Gaithersburg P&R in May 2013.