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wmata employee · October 30, 2008, 10:40:55 AM

We as supervisors are very pleased with the 60 ft.brt buses they are very quiet,very clean colorful buses.
Metro is due to get 250 buses in march 09. every garage will get new equipment accept ROYAL ST.
Arlington(west ox)garage will get new buses when they open in March so there are a lot of good things thats happening in the BMNT.

OrionFlyer · October 30, 2008, 01:14:41 PM

Which older buses will be getting the new paint scheme?

wmata employee · October 30, 2008, 02:33:16 PM

4001-4104, 9701-9785,9801-9835 only these buses will be kept in service they will go threw another big major overhaul next year they will be like new all over again.

OrionFlyer · October 30, 2008, 02:38:51 PM

Sounds good. What about the Orion's, New Flyer's, and Neoplan's?

LandoverDivision · October 30, 2008, 02:47:36 PM

Quote from: wmata employee on October 30, 2008, 10:40:55 AM
We as supervisors are very pleased with the 60 ft.brt buses they are very quiet,very clean colorful buses.
Metro is due to get 250 buses in march 09. every garage will get new equipment accept ROYAL ST.
Arlington(west ox)garage will get new buses when they open in March so there are a lot of good things thats happening in the BMNT.

Aren't Royal Street and Arlington closing due to West Ox?

Perry · October 30, 2008, 02:53:02 PM

Royal is staying open.

LandoverDivision · October 30, 2008, 03:10:08 PM

I couldve sworn somewhere it said Royal was being replaced by West Ox.

Perry · October 30, 2008, 04:07:37 PM

As far as I know, Arlington was the only one to close. That would be one heck of an inefficient deadhead to send something from western Fairfax to Alexandria. I suppose they could mix with Four Mile Run, but I dont' think Royal is closing because of West Ox.

Tristan · October 30, 2008, 09:04:34 PM

They're looking for a Royal replacement but it won't be West Ox. At one point, they talked about putting DASH and WMATA in the same division, but uh let's talk about NO.

BAD MOVE

Scrabbleship · November 01, 2008, 07:18:39 AM

Quote from: Tristan on October 30, 2008, 09:04:34 PM
They're looking for a Royal replacement but it won't be West Ox. At one point, they talked about putting DASH and WMATA in the same division, but uh let's talk about NO.

BAD MOVE

BAD MOVE? How? Union conflicts? Fears that WMATA would absorb DASH's routes? Do tell.

wmata employee · November 01, 2008, 11:23:44 AM

I dont no were you all are getting this information from its wrong wmata will never move another contractor into Royal st.

There is talk to replace the existing division but not sure were it will be .

Arlington is the garage that will move with another "TA" company .

Tristan · November 02, 2008, 12:30:16 AM

I didn't say that we were moving into Royal, and we're not a contractor. I meant to imply that, while we were discussing new garage options (we broke ground in March), the city floated the idea of putting Royal and DASH together like with Fairfax.

DASH is not union, so I don't anticipate any conflicts, but ... there's just a different mentality towards bus operations at WMATA vs. DASH. WMATA lets too many things go like they aren't happening - no offense, Antonio (? or is it Cedric?), not saying all employees at WMATA are bad, but...to be honest, if you ask anyone in Alexandria which bus they'd take first, if they aren't a senior citizen (we don't have a senior fare because we don't receive federal funding), 9.8 out of 10 say DASH.

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