STM tries out new bus model
The STM is trying out a new diesel-electric bendy bus model from a European manufacturer on some of the city’s busiest routes to see how it compares to their existing Nova model. There’s quite a lot of discussion about it on the STM’s Facebook page – impossible to link to.
SN86 10:45 on 2012/04/12 Permalink
The transit authority has picked an interesting company to rent a test model from. A foreign one and a relatively unknown one too. They have had the chance to buy good quality European articulated buses from Van Hool and assembled in Quebec but they didn’t. The Longueuil authority did and have several Van Hool artics, they used to be exclusively Van Hool but they’ve now bought NovaBuses. They’re good buses, stood up well considering all they ever did was cross the bumpy Bonaventure and Champlain Bridge all day for decades (depending on the model year). Since the STM avoided Van Hool and have bought over 200 Nova artics it seems odd that they’re testing other models only now.