April 2009 Observations

[C40LF_2464]

Mine:
2107 Z11 @ Silver Spring Station
5311 usual route @ Silver Spring Station
6206 J9 @ Silver Spring Station (coming from Bethesda on strategic duty at SS)

Usual route?

I think hes taliking about the 70. Thats the route i always spot it on.

[OrionFlyer]

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

[WES]

2616 on the G8

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

2616 on the G8

Great...there goes almost all of FMR's non-branded John Deere Orion VIIs...I think 2636 and 2637 remain unless they are now PikeRide buses...

Besides that, the rest of the John Deeres are branded for the 16, 9S, and REX...so looks like VA is stuck with the slow Cummins Orion VIIs =(

[79MetroExtraMD]

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

The Ellington Bridge loop is a bit tight for an artic.

[WMATAGMOAGH]

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

The Ellington Bridge loop is a bit tight for an artic.

Here we go again with the misconceptions about articulated buses...

[rb8888]

This morning:

4302 on the S1 (Potomac Park)
9776 on the S1 (Potomac Park)
9750 on the S1 (Potomac Park)
6424 on the S9 (McPherson Square)

[79MetroExtraMD]

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

The Ellington Bridge loop is a bit tight for an artic.

Here we go again with the misconceptions about articulated buses...

Have you been over Ellington Bridge? Plus, if you take one artic away from a route that needs it, you'd probably end up with a crowded 40 footer.

[ChristopherF]

RIDE ON:
085745 on the 10 (Twinbrook)
025592 on the 10 (Hillandale)

PRTC OMNIRIDE:
354 (West Falls Church Metro)
327 (Manassas)
176 (Gainesville/Linton Hall Road)

DC CIRCULATOR:
1124 (Georgetown via K Street Corridor)
1130 (Union Station)

METROBUS:
6110 on the A2
6107 on the NH1
4020 on the NH1
4349 on the 32
9322 on the 86 (Calverton)
9750 remains @ Northern.
9776 remains @ Northern.
4065 on the 83 (Rhode Island Avenue Station)
4330 remains @ Montgomery.
2078 on the K6 (White Oak)
2082 on the C8 (White Flint Station); rehab #1264
2107 on the K6 (Ft Totten)
2616 on the 86 (Calverton)
6159 on the F4 (Silver Spring Station)
5408 on the R2 (Ft Totten)
5409 on the R2 (Calverton & then to Ft Totten)
2354 on the R2 (Calverton)

[WMATAGMOAGH]

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

Have any of Northern's artics ever been on 90, 92 routes? From my experience, those routes need them.

The Ellington Bridge loop is a bit tight for an artic.

Here we go again with the misconceptions about articulated buses...

Have you been over Ellington Bridge? Plus, if you take one artic away from a route that needs it, you'd probably end up with a crowded 40 footer.

The L2 was my first home route, does that answer your question?

And thank you for proving my point about the rampant misconceptions with regards to articulated buses on this message board.  There was a discussion about ways to assign artics to routes some time ago, I don't think we need another one to rehash the same points right now. 

With regards to the OP that the 90 needs artics, just because a route is crowded does not mean that it "needs" or could be better served with artics.  I think that is all that needs to be said about the topic.

[OrionFlyer]

I saw 9489 on Fox45 News tonight. On a route that goes through College Park. Its still in the old red white blue scheme.

[79MetroExtraMD]

Dang. I was gonna post about that.

[OrionFlyer]

LOL.

What division is 9489 assigned to?

[WMATAGMOAGH]

5404 (I think) on the 38 at Seven Locks and Democracy, on what should have been the 9:40 departure from Montgomery Mall.  Not sure which garage covers the evening 38 trips at this point or which garage 5404 actually belongs to at this point though.

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

5404 (I think) on the 38 at Seven Locks and Democracy, on what should have been the 9:40 departure from Montgomery Mall.  Not sure which garage covers the evening 38 trips at this point or which garage 5404 actually belongs to at this point though.

Hmm...doesn't Nicholson do the 38 in the evenings?

Also, answering OrionFlyer's question...you said it 9489 was seen at College Park...so most likely it's a Landover bus (also with the fact that the other upper 9400s have moved there too).

I wonder if 9492 is also stuck with that scheme as well...