Your city's bus livery - Page 3

hammersklavier · #41 Posted **Jan 29, 2009, 8:46 PM**

You forgot trolleybuses, Wats. We actually have some now!

All SEPTA buses come in the same livery. You seen one, you seen them all.

Cirrus · #42 Posted **Jan 29, 2009, 9:10 PM**

Oh now I actually like ad wraps.

Money for the agency + more color = everybody wins.

I don't really get the anti-ad thing so many people have going on. IMO every blank wall in the city should have a billboard.

seaskyfan · #43 Posted **Jan 29, 2009, 9:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Oh now I actually like ad wraps.

Money for the agency + more color = everybody wins.

I don't really get the anti-ad thing so many people have going on. IMO every blank wall in the city should have a billboard.

I generally support transit advertising but I think blocking the windows is completely outrageous.

Billboards are visual pollution, in my opinion.

Strange Meat · #44 Posted **Jan 29, 2009, 10:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Oh now I actually like ad wraps.

Money for the agency + more color = everybody wins.

I don't really get the anti-ad thing so many people have going on. IMO every blank wall in the city should have a billboard.

I'd rather it be art, say, pay Banksy to do a bunch of work. Advertisements are teh suck.

vid · #45 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 1:13 AM**

My city used to have the Robin's Donuts Bus and the Taco Time Bus. They were wrapped for a couple years. They aren't anymore.

Old livery for Port Arthur Transit buses:

Trolleys, used from 1948 to 1972

The white and green with yellow western text paint job that they used after Thunder Bay was formed in 1970. They had this for only two years. The diesel buses used this into the mid 1980s, when they switched to the supercool dashy stripe. You can see one of the fishbowls on the left.

Several of the trolleys have been preserved and are sitting at the bus barns, no one really knows what to do with them. I think they should put them on a tourist line on the waterfront once the development there is finished. They're not wheelchair accessible but they're part of our history and nice to look at.

A Fort William Transit brill bus heading up my street.

A Port Arthur Transit bus at the interchange area in Intercity. Whenever the two cities got into a fight, they'd stop interlining buses between each other so you would have to get off of one system and onto the other here.

For much of their history, each city had a route that went to the other city without having to transfer. The route, Mainline, still exists today, and is based on streetcar lines from 1892.

More here.

Cirrus · #46 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 1:22 AM**

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I generally support transit advertising but I think blocking the windows is completely outrageous.

Have you ever actually ridden a wrapped bus? The wrap isn't solid. It's sort of like a chain link fence. You can see through it just fine.

vid · #47 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 2:05 AM**

It makes the bus a bit darker, it acts like window tint in the summer, so it's nice and cool inside. Buses without window tint are really hot in summer.

Some of our buses have tint and air conditioning. It's very nice.

Ayreonaut · #48 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 2:16 AM**

Fancy.

SouthJersey7 · #49 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 2:21 AM**

NJ Transit buses. All the city buses in the state, except for smaller county and private agencies, are run by NJ Transit and use the same color scheme. I actually ride these quite regularly.

There's old ones...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/

http://www.davemackey.com/

http://www.motorbussociety.org/
and new ones:

both from http://upload.wikimedia.org/

This is cool, I want one!

http://www.collect-corner.net/

seaskyfan · #50 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Have you ever actually ridden a wrapped bus? The wrap isn't solid. It's sort of like a chain link fence. You can see through it just fine.

I have ridden on a wrapped bus - multiple times before they got rid of most of them here (Sound Transit still has some, King County Metro has discontinued them for now). It was annoying to look through the mesh (more like a mesh t-shirt than a chain link fence) during the day - it was very difficult to see out of it at night particularly when it was raining. The wrap also made the interior of the bus darker and made the whole bus riding experience more claustrophobic. I think whatever genius decided that bus windows were available for rent should have his/her house covered in the crap.

vid · #51 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 2:48 AM**

Probably did, some of us like the nice dark cool buses. I really don't care for the ones that left in every bit of light out there, it's just as bad when you can't see out one window because of glare from another.

KevinFromTexas · #52 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 4:12 AM**

Make sure to credit the photographers with a link to where you found the photos, otherwise your post will be deleted. Thanks.

KevinFromTexas · #53 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Oh now I actually like ad wraps.

Money for the agency + more color = everybody wins.

I don't really get the anti-ad thing so many people have going on. IMO every blank wall in the city should have a billboard.

Totally. I'd rather see buses rolling around with ads on them than god awful 100 foot tall billboards any day. The company gets advertising and the transit system gets some extra dollars. And now when I look back to our old buses in the days without advertising, they looked boring. Plus some of the ads on buses can be really creative.

JManc · #54 Posted **Jan 30, 2009, 4:23 AM**

BrandonJXN · #55 Posted **Feb 4, 2009, 7:29 PM**

^ Is that what they call 'tippin on 44's?'

Busy Bee · #56 Posted **Feb 4, 2009, 7:34 PM**

That's what they call someone who should be shot.

Cirrus · #57 Posted **Feb 4, 2009, 8:26 PM**

Oh yeah, that's the special Compensator Edition of the Escalade.

Seriously though, that just makes me laugh at the dweeb who drives it. The Escalade is not in any way a badass car and cannot be turned into one with big wheels and the pickup option. I don't even want to shoot this loser. My normal rage for people who drive unnecessarily large cars is turned to pity for this guy, who obviously has absolutely no clue about his own retardedness.

deasine · #58 Posted **Feb 4, 2009, 8:44 PM**

Vancouver TransLink

Trolley Bus: New Flyer

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New Livery:

SFUVancouver's photo posted on SSP

My Photo posted on SSP

My Photo posted on SSP

Old Livery/Buses:

Photo posted by Dusty2Trails on Flickr

Note: These buses have been all sold to Argentina

Highway Express Bus Coaches: Orion

Quote:

My Photo posted on SSP

My Photo posted on SSP

Old Livery:

Photo by stephen Rees postedo n stephen Rees Blog

Note: Old Highway Bus Coach Livery is just white space instead of grey.

Articulated Buses: New Flyer

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New Livery:

Photo taken by Bill Wong posted on TransLink's Gallery

Old Livery:

Photo taken by Stephen Rees on Stephen Rees Blog

Note: This livery is only used on B-Lines. Older generation B-Line buses using the same design except with a red stripe instead of a yellow one.

CNG Buses: New Flyer

Quote:

Photo by Stephen Rees posted on Stephen Rees Blog

Photo by Stephen Rees posted on NowPublic

Low Floor Buses: New Flyer

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New Livery:

Photo by Delirius posted on Liquid This! Blog

Old Livery:

Posted by Lokesh.K.Raj on Picasa

Low Floor Buses: Nova Bus

Quote:

Photo by BuckyHermet posted on Flickr