Your city's bus livery - Page 7

young twig · #**121** Posted **Jun 15, 2009, 11:59 PM**

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FREKI · #**122** Posted **Jun 17, 2009, 9:58 PM**

A few Copenhagen one's from today

FREKI · #**123** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 11:45 PM**

A couple Copenhagen ones from today..

I'm I the only urban nut who likes buses here?

Busy Bee · #**124** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 3:59 AM**

Freki,

we all love buses here, and don't get me wrong I love all the Copenhagen pics you've been posting. It's just that this thread is for posting examples of bus paint schemes and designs, not just for posting tons of pictures. Maybe a seperate thread could be started for just posting an assortment of bus transport photos?

vid · #**125** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 6:16 AM**

You could got to cptdb.com, which is like SSP, but with buses instead of buildings. I'm sure they'd love to see Danish buses.

FREKI · #**126** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 9:32 AM**

You guys are right... gonna figure something out

Busy Bee · #**127** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 4:45 PM**

It's cptdb.ca

It's a decent site, mostly devoted to Canadian systems, but also a category for American and Worldwide public transit systems.

Don't disappear though Freki, we all appreciate what you've contributed!

Cirrus · #**128** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 6:32 PM**

The pictures are cool to see, they're just not really the topic of this particular thread.

I vote for creating a new thread.

initiald · #**129** Posted **Jun 29, 2009, 9:23 PM**

One of the new hybrid electric buses. New hybrid buses will start an express service to the airport is set to begin this fall. Those buses will be branded "Sprinter" and will have a green livery.

ItsConanOBrien · #**130** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 12:00 AM**

^ That looks very sharp

Busy Bee · #**131** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 3:34 AM**

^Ehhh, not so much for me. Maybe if this was 1988 or if it was trying to look like an RV.

vid · #**132** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 4:06 AM**

North America loves buses that look like they're from 1988. Newflyer still makes buses that use a base design from at least the 1960s with little modifications, and the design the looks remotely modern costs extra. Canada actually protested the replacement of GMC Fishbowls with Classics in the 1980s and continued making them in Canada for several years. I think they protested the ending of the GM Classics in the 1990s as well, and NovaBus made those until 1996. We're a strange country.

Busy Bee · #**133** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 2:58 PM**

Maybe it's called lack of competition.

initiald · #**134** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 7:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ItsConanOBrien

^ That looks very sharp

I'm pretty "meh" about our bus designs. I think the buses Freki posted are much nicer looking. I do like our hybrid Sprinter buses that will be running an airport express route come this autumn:

From the May MTC Meeting Agenda via Tozmervo

The green will help differentiate them from regular local buses.

Also, a hybrid bus manufacturer, Designline, has their North America headquarter in Charlotte. Right now there are some of their buses in use by the airport for parking transit (as seen on their homepage). Future plans may have they city buy some of their buses for regular service usage. Here's an example:

Source: http://www.designlineinternational.com/

Cirrus · #**135** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 8:09 PM**

^
Baltimore is launching a network of free central city circulators this summer that will use that bus.

llamaorama · #**136** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 8:20 PM**

You know those bendy BRT buses (a NABI?) looks sharp in the WMATA paint job.

I used to think they looked kind of silly but the design's grown on me.Maybe it's the similiar buses they have in Las Vegas that look ugly.

Cirrus · #**137** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 9:13 PM**

It's growing on me too. They look a lot better in person than in photograph.

This is what llamorama is talking about: WMATA's new scheme is red for local service, blue for express. You can see the picture of the red bus is articulated.

(Photo by Richard Layman)

(Photo by DDOT)

Here is the Express livery on a less fancy bus:

(photo by channaher)

Cirrus · #**138** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 9:23 PM**

channaher has a good flickr set of DC area buses that includes a fun one I didn't show back on the first page.

The Richmond Highway Express is a limited stop operation that runs south from King Street Metro down US Route 1 in suburban Alexandria. It's just one route (and suburban at that), so not a common scene, but it has a unique branding scheme that is worth showing off:

vid · #**139** Posted **Jul 1, 2009, 11:13 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by initiald

Source: http://www.designlineinternational.com/

This is the third silliest looking bus I've ever seen.

initiald · #**140** Posted **Jul 1, 2009, 3:38 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vid

This is the third silliest looking bus I've ever seen.

I don't know, I think it is kind of inovative. Better than the old bus designs that have been used for decades. Here it is in Baltimore's livery that Cirrus had mentioned:

Source: http://www.designlineinternational.com