June 2009 Observations

[79MetroExtraMD]

Metrobus
6396 32 @ Georgetown & FH
4350 10B @ N. Glebe/Pershing

ART
5288, 5292 41

[WMATAGMOAGH]

5405 is at Nicholson, was on the 23 on Wednesday afternoon and again today

[Tristan]

One of the new ART NABIs passed me yesterday, it was slow enough to make my stomach turn but too fast for me to read the number.

[WES]

I saw 5256 on the 51 yesterday, which makes me wonder why did they split the fleet numbers.  Some are before the first batch of NABIs and some are after.

And I thought they way THE BUS numbered their bus fleet was weird.  At least they go up in later orders.

Second NABI should have offered the choice to order the old design along with the new one, like New Flyer, but hey I don't run them, I just watch them.

[79MetroExtraMD]

I'm wondering the same thing. The last order was in the 5270s, but this order is in between 5250s, 5280s, and 5290s. Then again, it is contracted same as how you have a gap in the 9700s between the Orion VIIs and D35LFRs at FFX.

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

I'm wondering the same thing. The last order was in the 5270s, but this order is in between 5250s, 5280s, and 5290s. Then again, it is contracted same as how you have a gap in the 9700s between the Orion VIIs and D35LFRs at FFX.

so...there is no 9769?

[Tristan]

I think ART is stuck in county numbering, like Fairfax.  They probably can't go past 5299, maybe not even that high.  You'd have to look at stuff like the Mobile Commuter Store(s) and other Transit Services vehicles to see what they are numbered to see what constraints there might be to keeping the numbers consecutive.

Another theory: replacement numbering.

[ChristopherF]

RIDE ON:
995805 on the 48 (Wheaton)
005815 on the 55 (Germantown Trans Ctr)
005821 on the 55 (Rockville)
055823 on the 48 (Rockville)
085735 on the 10 (Twinbrook)
025593 on the 10 (Hillandale)
085745 on the 20 (Silver Spring)
075758 on the 20 (Hillandale)
075757 on the 34 (Friendship Heights)
015591 on the 34 (Wheaton)

FAIRFAX CONNECTOR:
9703, 9704, 9705, 9720, 9721 & 9722 on shuttle runs for Celebrate Fairfax
9765 on the 401 (Franconia/ Springfield Metro)
9700 on the 401 (Tysons West Park Transit Center)
9731 on the 950 (West Falls Church Metro via Herndon-Monroe P&R)
7773 on the 505 (West Falls Church Metro)

PRTC OMINRIDE:
364 (West Falls Church Metro)
175 (Gainesville/ Linton Hall Road)
144 (Manassas)

METROBUS:
6139 on the NH1
4020 on the NH1
IS 9310 STILL @ CET?
9306 on an unknown route with an L block
9332 on the F6 with an L block
9334 on the 86 (Calverton)
9486 on the F8 (Langley Park)
9731 on the F2 (Cheverly Station)
9746 on the R12 (Deanwood Station)
9765 remains @ Montgomery.
9771 remains @ Montgomery.
9773 remains @ Montgomery.
9820 on the Z2 (Silver Spring Station)
9821 on the C8 (White Flint Station)
4068 on the C4 (Twinbrook Station)
4090 on the C8 (College Park Station)
4322 remains @ Montgomery.
4330 remains @ Montgomery.
4395 on the B30
2078 on the C7 (Glenmont Station)
2083 on the Z8 (Silver Spring Station)
6015 on the C8 (White Flint Station)
6020 on the Q2 (Shady Grove Station)
6021 on the C2 (Greenbelt Center)
6027 on the J2 (Silver Spring Station)
6029 on the Z8 (Briggs Chaney Park & Ride)
6032 on the C2 (Greenbelt Center)
6038 on the C4 (Twinbrook Station) & later on the Q2 (Silver Spring Station)
6001-6014: LANDOVER
6015-6039: MONTGOMERY
6101 on the C8 (White Flint Station)
6102 on the J2 (Montgomery Mall)
6105 on the Q2 (Shady Grove Station)
6197 on the C8 (College Park Station)
6198 on the Z8 (Silver Spring Station)
6203 on the K6 (Ft Totten)
6140-6178: LANDOVER
6179-6217: MONTGOMERY
2617 on the R2 (Calverton)
5403 on the R2 (Ft Totten)
5410 on the R2 (Calverton)
2351 on the R4 (Brookland Station)
2341 on the 80 (Kennedy Center)
2331 on the 80 (Ft Totten)
2349 on the 86 (Calverton), freshly rehabbed in the silver/red Local scheme
2370 on the 86 (Calverton & then to Rhode Island Avenue Station)
2300 on the R2 (Calverton)

[LandoverDivision]

Ken and George 6442 is NOT Northern it's a Western bus along with 6444. Spotted both yesterday on the 30s (forgot which one).

[Tristan]

The tics on the 5A might have been sidelined for now because the passenger loads don't warrant them as they did back in the beginning of the year.

They said that artics on the 5A was just a pilot and there were no guarantees that they would remain at FMR.  I haven't seen any posted sightings of them back at Bladensburg though.

Not warranted my ass, I had to stand holding onto the farebox bar at the windshield on May 28 on an Orion VII, passed 5401 going the other way SRO, and got seats on 5402 on June 3 only because I got there early.  When we got to Hernon-Monroe, it was SRO.

[79MetroExtraMD]

Is it mostly those Herndon-Monroe folks that compose of most of the crowd on the bus or just the Dulles travelers with luggage?

[WMATAGMOAGH]

Seen while biking today (to the best of my ability to remember at this point, I was more interested in not being run over by drivers than anything else):

4407 on the 11Y
4410 and 4401 on PG County bound express routes (specifics slipping my mind right now)
2412 on the X1, repainted and rehabbed
2448 on the 30s
2434? on the 30s
A 2300 C40LF on the P line with the old destination sign readings (ANACOSTIA, then flipping to STATION)
6445 on the 39
What appeared to be a 30 foot Orion VII/CNG in Washington Circle, too far away to see the route or destination sign
C40LF on the D5

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

Is it mostly those Herndon-Monroe folks that compose of most of the crowd on the bus or just the Dulles travelers with luggage?

Herndon-Monroe...like over 80% of the passengers got off there when I rode the 5A that one time.

Also, that's strange that 6442 is at Western...I wonder if 6443 is still at Northern. Also, I saw 6453 today on the 37 and it had the MetroExtra sign display.

[79MetroExtraMD]

I decided to head over to ART territory and ride the new 77. Mainly new NABIs assigned to that line today. 5252 is another oddity to the bunch adding to the skepticism of where the numbers stand.

[WMATAGMOAGH]

One more from yesterday:

9305 at 4th and Pennsylvania, sign wasn't working and I couldn't see the block from where I was, but it came from Constitution and continued on Constitution heading westbound


From today:

6444 deadheading to Western
Saw 3 or 4 New Flyers parked at Western but didn't get numbers