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[Urban Legend]

Dan

Dan Bus Company is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area as well as some intercity bus service connecting the Tel Aviv area with nearby regions of the country such as Samaria and Jerusalem. Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports over 600,000 passengers daily.


more about Dan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bus_Company















recently Dan bought Scania after using MAN all the time


Egged

Egged Bus Cooperative is the largest bus company in Israel, and the second largest in the world (after London Buses). A cooperative owned by its members, Egged employs 6,117 workers and has 3,303 buses for more than 1,038 service routes and 3,984 alternative routes all over Israel.

more about Egged
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egged

Egged Inter-Urban buses. but recently they used to urban lines.
Daf SB 4000


Mercedes 0404


Mercedes OC 500



Armor protected bus. goes through Palestinian villages.
Volvo B12B



Man 18-350



Egged urban buses

these are a little bit old. they are still in use but some of them were moved to Bulgaria were Egged operates multiple bus lines in Varna and Sofia.

Mercedes 0405









Egged buses in Haifa central bus station




this one is a little bit old but still in use


new Egged buses

Man NL -313


Man NG 313




Egged bought Scania too. there are onley two Scania for now, both operates in Haifa.
Scania K270LE


Scania LE- 94


Midi Bus

Mercedes Sprinter



Volswagen T-5



Man Superbus Irizer



Man 11-220 (mostly used in litte streets in Jerusalem. streets that biger buses can't enter.




this double deck bus was in use in the 90's in Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line



Kavim
Kavim is an Israeli bus company. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Tel Aviv Metropolitan region.

more about Kavim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavim







Connex
conex provide intercity lines and urban lines in Ashdod, Tiberias and Modin






















Metropoline
Metropoline is an Israeli bus company, which provides bus routes between Tel Aviv and Beersheba. It was founded in 2000 by Tour Bus and two other transportation companies.




Metro Dan
Metrodan Beersheba Ltd. is an Israeli bus company. It is owned, among others, by Tour Bus. Metrodan operates bus lines within Beersheba, as the name implies.

Metrodan was founded in 2003 in a joint venture by Metropoline and a company called Nahor Transportation (a subsidy of the Dan Bus Company).

According to its official website, Metrodan Beersheba owns 90 buses spread over 19 lines. Most of its lines originate in the Beersheba Central Bus Station

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Some Malmö buses for ya.
Yellow buses are express buses and suburban services.
Green buses are city buses / trunk routes etc.










Trolley in Landskrona, northern Malmö metro.

[Gulivar]

Some lovely buses from India.


off road bus in Mumbai


nice double decker bus in Mumbai






Fresh-air conditioned bus in Dehli

[Gulivar]

Some buses in South Africa.

Johannesburg




Durban





Cape Town

[towerwizard]

our buses ROCK. The fares, however, suck. Who wants to pay $2 to ride a bus?????

[Jayayess1190]

Lets bring this thread back! Post bus photos YOU've taken.

Recent in Pittsburgh, PA:

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[trainrover]

Originally Posted by trainrover

Cheesh, this city`s planners have no idea what they want. Metro's picture shows a downhill trolley crossing W Rene Levesque, yet my borough's quarterly bulletin delivered to my home yesterday has published one of a tram doing the very same thing as the trolley; Metro's picture reveals no tramway (tracking) underneath its vehicle while the borough`s picture reveals neither overhead wiring (catenary) nor a pantograph atop the pair of trams. Without any pantograph, does this mean that (some part of) the city wishes the trams to pick up the power from between the rails?

La STM veut un réseau 100% électrifié en 2025


Le trolleybus fera aussi son apparition sur des artères achalandées comme les boulevards Henri-Bourassa et Saint-Michel d'ici 2025. Le projet de BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) sur le boulevard Pie-IX pourrait être converti en trolleybus.

MARIE-EVE SHAFFER
MÉTRO
21 mai 2010 15:42

Dès 2025, le réseau d’autobus de la Société de transport de Montréal (STM) sera complètement électrifié.

«On a décidé de prendre les devants», a déclaré vendredi le directeur général de la STM, Yves Devin, à l'occasion d'un colloque sur l'électrification des transports au Québec organisé par l'Université du Québec à Montréal.

Ainsi, les autobus hybrides ou fonctionnant avec du diesel seront graduellement remplacés par des autobus électriques, qui sont présentement très tendance en Europe. «Notre objectif, c'est que les projets de démonstration partent en 2011-2012», a précisé M. Devin. Ces autobus de type biberonneur fonctionneront grâce à des piles qui seront rechargées au début d'un circuit et à la fin.

En attendant, la STM cessera d'acheter des autobus carburant au diesel. Son conseil d'administration a approuvé la résolution voulant que les 316 prochains autobus commandés seront hybrides. Même chose pour les autobus articulés.

Le trolleybus fera aussi son apparition sur des artères achalandées comme les boulevards Henri-Bourassa et Saint-Michel d'ici 2025. Le projet de BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) sur le boulevard Pie-IX pourrait être converti en trolleybus. «L'avantage du trolleybus, c'est qu'entre deux autobus électrifiés, il peut y avoir un autobus au diesel sur une même ligne», a expliqué le directeur exécutif de l'exploitation de la STM, Carl Desrosiers. La STM planifie commander une centaine de trolleybus l'année prochaine, mais elle attend les conclusions d'une étude sur le sujet avant de procéder.

Enfin, le tramway fera assurément sont retour à Montréal d'ici 15 ans, selon M. Devin. Trois lignes sont envisagées : l'une sur le chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, l'autre sur l'avenue du Parc et une dernière dans le centre-ville.

the borough's picture

By the way, I used to like busses, i.e., before they were downsized....even our new bendy busses are smaller than prior regular busses...

[trainrover]

It'd appear by the following report that the city wishes to overly clutter the streets with busses; a 15-minute battery charge that gives 20 minutes` worth of juice (traction) would be absurd:

Originally Posted by trainrover

I really don't know why I bother linking to these blah-blah reports (no offense to the media intended):

STM bus fleet to be fully electric by 2025

'Fast-charge' buses would have charging stations at ends of each route

By Catherine Solyom, The Gazette May 22, 2010

The STM says its bus fleet will be zero-emission – and zero-noise – by 2025.

MONTREAL – Montreal's public transit system will be entirely electric by 2025, says the Société de transport de Montréal, making the city the first in North America to pledge to use only zero-emission - and zero-noise - vehicles.

The STM is currently waiting for a shipment of 380 new diesel buses, with a lifespan of about 15 years, said Carl Desrosiers, chief of operations for the STM. But these will be the last of their kind in Montreal.

In the meantime, the corporation will begin to introduce more efficient, and less polluting buses starting next year.

According to its action plan, released yesterday, in 2011 it will start testing electric, articulated trolley buses, linked to overhead wires, to be used eventually on some of the busiest bus routes, like Pie IX Blvd., Henri Bourassa Blvd., Saint-Michel Blvd. and Notre Dame St.

And by 2012, all new buses purchased will be at least minimally hybrid - many of them articulated.

But the real change will come in the form of fully-electric buses, tested for Montreal winters and eventually replacing most of the STM's 1,300 buses over the next 15 years.

The so-called "fast-charge" bus - rechargeable in 10 to 15 minutes - is extremely promising, Desrosiers said.

"Right now a regular bus does about 500 kilometres before refuelling. Right now, in the cold, no battery can do that. But if you put a power station at both ends of a bus line, when the bus arrives it recharges for 10-15 minutes and it's good for another 20 kilometres. ... That's the future." The fast-charge buses also have the added advantage of running without any overhead wires or trolley tracks on the ground, and hence they are able to bypass any obstacles on the road, like water main breaks or car accidents.

The move toward electricity as the main fuel source, as opposed to diesel, biodiesel or natural gas, is both economical and ecological, Desrosiers said, and the STM hopes it will entice more people to use the public transit system.

"Last year we used 45 million litres of gas," Desrosiers said. "My dream is that in 2025 we will use zero. That's a lot less greenhouse gases emitted. Around the world everyone's heading toward the electric buses. Here electricity is cheap and clean."

csolyom@thegazette.canwest.com


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/opini...#ixzz0om0xq1m7

[hkskyline]

[trainrover]

09 Nov 2011:

Study Examines Safety Of Curbside Buses

or

Study Examines Safety Of Curbside Buses

[trainrover]

Today's

Transit workers assaulted on the job -- 2'35" to 22'

"... It's so crowded today ... and something else should be done about the fares. ..." -- 20'18"

or

Transit workers assaulted on the job

[CS-TNJ]

Hi!

This is my first post in this forum.I send to all of you,buses´s fans,photos of the STCP buses´s fleet.

The current fleet is composed by different types of chassis,all low floor,except 5 minibus MERCEDES-BENZ :

MERCEDES-BENZ DIESEL (173 UNITS)

MAN CNG STANDARD,ARTICULATED AND DOUBLE DECKER (259 UNITS)

MAN DIESEL (3 UNITS)

VOLVO DIESEL ARTICULATED (20 UNITS)


MAN CNG (3001/3077) YEAR 2000


MAN CNG (3081/3131) YEAR 2001


MAN CNG (3141/3191) YEAR 2002


MAN CNG (3201/3250) YEAR 2007


MAN DIESEL (1790/1794) YEAR 1999


MERCEDES-BENZ DIESEL (1700/1789) YEAR 1998


MERCEDES-BENZ DIESEL (2101/2175) YEAR 2000


MERCEDES-BENZ CÍTARO DIESEL (2181/2183) YEAR 2004


MERCEDES-BENZ DIESEL (1811/1815) YEAR 2004/06


MAN LION´S CITY DIESEL DOUBLE DECKER (2951/2965) YEAR 2011


MAN LION´S CITY CNG ARTICULATED (1101/1130) YEAR 2007


VOLVO B9L DIESEL ARTICULATED (1201/1220) YEAR 2010

[trainrover]

Originally Posted by trainrover

Bristol Halfcab Buses (video)

[trainrover]

Hailing from 1975:

continued:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1qqtqvd8g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoKg4kSWeA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWV1gzbYA0

[trainrover]

[trainrover]

Originally Posted by trainrover

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[trainrover]

:PFFT: To think that more archive footage of li'l ol' Bournemouth's transit legacy exists out there than of Montreal's, plus it's just taught me something that I never knew (had?) existed bus turntables in the middle of public streets/roadways, 4'33" and 5'45"...