While waiting for the bus tonight at the corner of Du Parc and Des Pins, I saw this articulated bus speeding down Du Parc, following a regular #80 STM bus. I took my camera out, and managed to snap this picture… Has anyone seen more of this variety of bus circulating on regular routes? It looked like this vehicle was not taking passengers, since the display panel at the front had the manufacturer’s name, rather than the route number.
My colleague Chris Erb wrote a post back in September, on what this lone articulated bus might be about. So, was this one of 202 articulated buses purchased by the STM?
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I prefer the Van Hool RTL buses than this piece of scrap.
This is a demo unit sent from NovaBus for testing perhaps during the snow storm to see how it handles it.
Keep an eye out for it!
Yep, I saw it yesterday or the day before, on Beaubien. With about a dozen STM types inside. I gawked at it, some of them looked out at me, no doubt used to being gawked at by similarly dumb-struck Montrealers.
Geez, an articulated bus in Montreal. How big city! Why it’s almost as if we’re… Ottawa.
*Waiting for the double articulated buses*