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Sunday, May 4, 2014
The relics of TriMet's bus fleet - ALL PHOTOS taken today 05/04/2014
Did you take those Merlo pictures through the fence by the LIFT building?
Also, according to page 225 the following document, bus 2556 appears to the sole low floor bus that is not considered part of the fleet, and the remaining 17/1800s will be replaced with the 3200s that are currently being delivered. http://trimet.org/pdfs/publications/TriMet-FY15-FY19-Proposed-CAMIP.pdf
Considering that per Federal Transit Administration guidelines, all buses in the 2500 series and older should be retired (as they were delivered in 2001 and are therefore 13 years old), yet those buses won't be replaced until 2020 - in another six years.
So TriMet's own policy of keeping buses for 20 years defeats its own public statements that buses should be in service for "15 to 16 years"
Erik, I don't think that the FTA is saying that a bus should be retired after 12-years of service. What I believe they are saying is that the MINIMUM age a bus should be used is 12-years. Most agencies will keep buses much longer than that minimum. The following is from the FTA report titled Useful Life of Transit Buses and Vans.
"Actual retirement ages generally exceed both FTA minimums and agency service-life policies. The actual timing of vehicle retirement for all nine agencies typically occurs between one to four years after the FTA minimum has been reached (but can occur as late as vehicle age 20). Moreover, for most agencies, the recent actual retirement ages also exceed the planned or policy retirement ages. Given these observations, it is clear that FTA’s current minimum service-life requirement for heavy-duty buses does not actively constrain the agencies’ retirement decisions (as retirements occur after the minimum retirement age has been reached)."
8 comments:
I don't miss the dinosaurs one bit.Good post Erik.Westside riders suffered the most and the longest with those buses.
You were at Merlo?
Yup. I went to Merlo. I'm surprised the TriMet Cops didn't show up and arrest me.
Did you take those Merlo pictures through the fence by the LIFT building?
Also, according to page 225 the following document, bus 2556 appears to the sole low floor bus that is not considered part of the fleet, and the remaining 17/1800s will be replaced with the 3200s that are currently being delivered.
http://trimet.org/pdfs/publications/TriMet-FY15-FY19-Proposed-CAMIP.pdf
I love seeing 1701 out on route!
Considering that per Federal Transit Administration guidelines, all buses in the 2500 series and older should be retired (as they were delivered in 2001 and are therefore 13 years old), yet those buses won't be replaced until 2020 - in another six years.
So TriMet's own policy of keeping buses for 20 years defeats its own public statements that buses should be in service for "15 to 16 years"
Where does the FTA say that they believe that buses should be used for 12 years and no more, even in the relatively mild climate that we have?
Erik, I don't think that the FTA is saying that a bus should be retired after 12-years of service. What I believe they are saying is that the MINIMUM age a bus should be used is 12-years. Most agencies will keep buses much longer than that minimum. The following is from the FTA report titled Useful Life of Transit Buses and Vans.
"Actual retirement ages generally exceed both FTA minimums and agency service-life policies. The actual timing of vehicle retirement for all nine agencies typically occurs between one to four years after the FTA minimum has been reached (but can occur as late as vehicle age 20). Moreover, for most agencies, the recent actual retirement ages also exceed the planned or policy retirement ages. Given these observations, it is clear that FTA’s current minimum service-life requirement for heavy-duty buses does not actively constrain the agencies’ retirement decisions (as retirements occur after the minimum retirement age has been reached)."
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