Anzahl der Beiträge : 6 Anmeldedatum : 07.11.10 Ort : Hong Kong
Thema: Buses in your hometown Mo 8 Nov - 3:14
How do buses look like in your home town?
I am going to begin with Hong Kong.
On the left there are two trams. The bus in white is a Volvo Olympian 11.3m air-conditioned belonged to New World First Bus. On the right, the open-top bus in yellow is a Leyland Olympian, my favourite type, belonged to Citybus (you might recognize the logo from Capital Citybus). This FD8372 used to be a typical air-conditioned double-decker. Just a few years ago right after the government decided that couples can get married anywhere they like, Citybus converted this along with a few other Leyland Olympians to open-top buses. And yes, the lower deck is still air-conditioned, a first in Hong Kong.
Even though these are very powerful, they tend to break down more often than British products. That is why you can find more buses by Leyland, Volvo and Dennis on the streets of Hong Kong than MAN, Neoplan and Scania.
This is another Leyland Olympian. It is one of the 54 12m air-conditioned Leyland Olympians introduced in 1993 when Citybus was awarded the franchise of 28 routes. As I have said above, I love Leyland Olympians more than other bus types. However, after 17 years in service, many of them have been retired and only a handful of them are remaining in the franchised bus service division of Citybus.
This is the newest Leyland Olympian in Citybus' fleet. Still, it is over 16 years old now.
In fact, there are still 2 more major bus companies, Kowloon Motor Bus and New Lantau Bus in Hong Kong. But since I only take photos of mostly Leyland Olympians around the area near my school, I don't have decent photos for those two companies. I won't tell you the real reason is that Citybus is my favourite bus company.
Marcel Kuhnt Admin
Anzahl der Beiträge : 3364 Anmeldedatum : 26.04.09 Alter : 40 Ort : Berlin-Spandau
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Mo 8 Nov - 9:09
I have never seen chineese letters on a flip dot matrix! (and on a MAN bus ) Very funny for me!
FS1819
Anzahl der Beiträge : 6 Anmeldedatum : 07.11.10 Ort : Hong Kong
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Mo 8 Nov - 9:52
Marcel Kuhnt schrieb:
I have never seen chineese letters on a flip dot matrix! (and on a MAN bus ) Very funny for me!
I agree that they tend to look quite weird on matrix displays. However, the size of the letters on matrix is much larger than on cloth. Wait until you see this mess of words: http://www.681busterminal.com/962b.jpg (<-Not my photo!)
Kristian
Anzahl der Beiträge : 157 Anmeldedatum : 06.08.09 Alter : 32 Ort : Croatia , Zadar
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Mo 8 Nov - 13:37
Here is some busses from Croatia, my town Zadar! We have 90% Mercedes busses and 10% are others.
None of these are air-conditioned? Not even the single deckers? I am quite surprised that Leyland Olympians and MCW Metrobuses are not on the list.
Most of our vehicles aren't air conditioned, its not needed here! In England, there are rules coming into force that all buses need to be low floor, so that rules out MCW Metrobuses and Leyland Olympians, Although in the Wales section of Arriva, there are still a lot of them operated (open top, usually) for tours and in the summer. For example, in Llandudno, a lot of these vehicles operate for mountain tour route Number 1, which shows landmarks in Llandudno, Conwy and of course, the Great Orme.
peterZZD
Anzahl der Beiträge : 270 Anmeldedatum : 20.12.10 Alter : 26 Ort : Depending on the time of the year, middle of nowhere or middle of nowhere
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Mo 20 Dez - 18:09
Hello, that is my first post on this forum.
I would like to show my hometown - Radom, Poland.
All pictures belong to authors who published them in Phototrans world-wide gallery. We have 24 day bus lines (and no other means of public transport), numbered 1 through 26 with 20 and 22 missing (they existed once but were only rush-hour "suppliers" and were of no use in late 1990s). All of them are run between 5.30 and less or more 23 o'clock, with major routes, 7 and 9, running practically 24 hour with no run at 3am. There are two companies, the larger one, MPK Radom (MPK, after translation, means less or more Urban Transport Company) operating routes 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 25, while the smaller company, ITS Radom (ITS stands for International Transport and Spedition - this is how it is actually called!) running on 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13 and 26. The livery is mostly white with red stripes. Older ITS buses carry white with blue stripes.
These were not fitted with air conditioning (did it exist back in 1980s?) and none are in service now I didn't like these buses a lot - they were high-floor...
None of Neoplan buses have a/c for passengers. They are all fitted with electronic displays - however, they are not able to announce next stop (older controllers...). They are all low-floor for at least 45-50% of the bus (and were first buses in Radom to be low-floor).
All ITS Solaris buses and MPK buses with fleet no.'s above 1033 inclusive have a/c - all the rest don't. Every single Solaris is a low-floor bus and all buses made later than 2006 inclusive can announce next stops (except for #1045 I think, I'm not sure of that boy). However, MPK drivers have tendency to switch this function off, because "it annoys them"... it's not drivers, who are important, it's passengers! But, for a good news, ITS do switch it on. The transport coordinator - MZDiK (Municipal Road and Transport Authority) - lays cash punishments if, for example, a bus is late, or a 12m bus is on a 18m run.
Now, a quite enjoyable curio. All MPK buses with fleet numbers above #1008 inclusive are CNG powered! Along with ITS #82, this makes 38 buses of about 120ish of our fleet CNG powered. We are second on the list of cities with CNG-powered buses in Poland, but I've no clue concerning the whole world
Regards, Piotr Sekula.
BusRider
Anzahl der Beiträge : 102 Anmeldedatum : 15.01.11 Alter : 27 Ort : Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown So 16 Jan - 0:58
Buses in my home town? Well, the transit system in my city just got 11 new buses!
4 New Flyer D40LFR's, and 7 New Flyer D35LFR's.
aarongilp
Anzahl der Beiträge : 82 Anmeldedatum : 09.01.11 Alter : 37 Ort : Salt, Katalonien, Spanien
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown So 16 Jan - 8:21
Hi! In my hometown, Salt, we share buses with the capital city here, Girona. Basically our buses are bodied all in Spain (body makers Tata-Hispano, Castrosua, Ugarte (desapeared), Unvi and Beulas), but we only have one unit made outside...in Poland! That's it, we have a little Solaris Urbino 8.6 (AKA Solaris Alpino).
In the engines side, we have Scania (L94UB, N230UB, K270UB), MAN (18.310 HOCL-NL), Volvo (B10M, B6 and B7L) and Mercedes (three old O405, the others are OC500LE1825 and 1830). I'm not in home so I can't post photos from mine, so I put here a link of a webpage where there are some photos of Girona and Salt buses:
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Do 10 Feb - 15:19
Well, same as Lance's ones (except Alfabus Localo), and some Credo buses, in the nearby town.
edit. Oh, just noticed Neobus_Citta bumped this topic
win173d
Anzahl der Beiträge : 6 Anmeldedatum : 08.02.11
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown So 13 Feb - 13:38
( There's a member from hong Kong! Yay! ) There're two more common bus company in Hong Kong.
*All the photos are shot by me.
Amy Rose
Anzahl der Beiträge : 663 Anmeldedatum : 13.01.11 Ort : Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown So 13 Feb - 14:56
I'm going to start of with pictures that you people in the east are used to. My hometown is Toronto,Ontario and not some random place in the United States
This is an Alexander Dennis Enviro 500. This is the Government of Ontario provincial transport services, but this is the last order on buses over seas since there is high regulations in place on where these double deckers go, since they are the only everyday transport use that primarily uses highways. After that order, the MTO (Ministry of Transportation Ontario) decided to make GO Transit buy local as if European variety isn't good enough
This is a Vanhool A330 theres also an AG300
The problem is that also, its offseas and doesn't support the local economy, so if Vanhool doesn't make a factory in Canada, they're the last of the European variety to go, and they're so fancy in terms of seating and the interior environment, instead we're getting some lousy Ontario bus with hard shell seating which is uncomfortable for a commute from suburbia which I luckily don't live.
Now this is the real grand daddy of the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) buses. These have been here for over 40 years and still do everyday services. The name for them is a GM fishbowls and thats what the transitfans like me call them. Sadly they will be scrapped next year, or even better! Rebuilt again (Yes the TTC is quite poor so we rebuild our buses to extend their life since TTC sued General Motors after a bus split in half in the winter that was in Kansas)
These are the newest buses of them all and they're called orion VII Hybrids that are second gen. They run on batteries and consume less fuel.
This is the diesel first generation version for comparison
This is a TTC orion V and they are probably the first Air Conditioned buses. They used to run on Clean Natural Gas, but the leaks and the height forced the TTC to convert to diesel.
This is a 1998 lowfloor by newflyer, the final order before TTC became attached to Orion. They have AC also. Bonus Time
These are President's Conference Car or PCC for short. They were in revenue service until 1996 I believe. But now they're here as a tourist attraction, but still actually work for revenue service 50 years after initial production date since they fixed the 2 streetcars and brought them to almost modern standards since they're not lowfloor. You can still catch them near the waterfront only during the summer
ediblechickenwing
Anzahl der Beiträge : 317 Anmeldedatum : 16.04.10 Ort : South Wales, UK
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown So 13 Feb - 21:38
My area's buses are mostly short (many 9.4m, some 10.1m and 10.9m, there's also 5 11.3m buses and 3 12.1m buses).
Most are Dennis Dart SLFs, a few Transbus Darts and ADL Dart / Enviro 200 (Dennis became Transbus, Transbus became ADL - Alexander Dennis, and the Darts later became known as Enviro 200 but still technically Dart).
Please note that only the video above is mine, all of the images were taken by other people (the usernames of which can be found once you click on the link).
Ralph Kramden
Anzahl der Beiträge : 207 Anmeldedatum : 12.02.11
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Mo 14 Feb - 1:34
Here in Barnsley & surrounding areas we have loads of different buses & operators
Stagecoach MAN 18.240 Enviro 300 MAN 18.220 ALX 300 MAN 14.220 MCV Evolution (I think) Volvo B10m Northern Counties Dennis Dart SLF East Lancs Spryte Plus loads more!
Redline Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer 1 Optare Metrorider
MASS Brightbus Loads of Leyland Olympians with different bodies Dennis Dragon Tri-axle (ex-kmb bus) And one very knackered Leyland Titan Plus loads of other museum exhibits!
gneb
Anzahl der Beiträge : 197 Anmeldedatum : 14.02.11 Alter : 27 Ort : Trondheim, Norway
Thema: Buses in my hometown... Mo 14 Feb - 14:40
I am living in a large town in Norway called Trondheim...
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Fr 18 Feb - 20:04
Here in the Netherlands i use a few buses.
Like this bus in Utrecht.
Utrecht
or the newer version.
Utrecht
and sometimes a longer version
Utrecht
Also i travel in this bus a lot. First there were like this bus, but because they were not meant for long drives on the Highway (because they were to light weight.)
Utrecht - Breda , Utrecht - Oosterhout.
They where replaced with these ones.
Utrecht - Breda , Utrecht - Oosterhout.
And in the town were i live there are only really small buses for 8 persons, like this one.
From my town.
sometimes they are replaced on the busy mornings with Touring Coaches. like this one.
From my town.
This is my list of buses, what i use almost every workday.
These are not my own pictures. I hope you like it.
mmarko
Anzahl der Beiträge : 4 Anmeldedatum : 18.08.10 Ort : Pribinić
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Fr 18 Feb - 21:28
Here are some pictures from Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Marco_Valente
Anzahl der Beiträge : 3 Anmeldedatum : 12.12.10 Alter : 37 Ort : Barreiro - Portugal
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Sa 19 Feb - 1:26
Hi,
This is my company in my city, Barreiro (Lisbon). (Urban)
Daimler Benz/Mercedes Benz O305G nº25
AEC UTIC nº33
DAF Camo nº41
Volvo B10B Camo nº51
Mercedes-Benz O530 nº69
Mercedes-Benz O530 nº70
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City65 nº75
Mercedes-Benz O530 (Euro V) nº79
Volvo B7R Marcopolo Viale Midi nº85
Volvo B10R-55 CAMO nº89 (ex-81)
Marco_Valente
Anzahl der Beiträge : 3 Anmeldedatum : 12.12.10 Alter : 37 Ort : Barreiro - Portugal
Thema: Re: Buses in your hometown Sa 19 Feb - 1:38