Old Trolley Bus Fleet * Canada - Last stop Argentina, for Vancouver's ones
Vancouver,BC,Canada -The Vancouver Sun, by Kelly Sinoski -September 11, 2008: -- They're too old and not accessible enough to serve the people of Metro Vancouver, but 80 retired trolley buses are being welcomed by a city in Argentina... TransLink has struck a deal with Mendoza to sell the 25-year-old New Flyer Industries buses for $2,300 each plus shipping costs... TransLink representative Drew Snider said if TransLink had turned the buses to the wreckers for scrap, it would have received just $1,600 per bus, minus $600 each for decommissioning... The buses are the only ones left of a fleet of 244 that joined the bus system in the early 1980s. The others were retired from service some time ago, with most of them turned into scrap... (Photo from the last ride of the last Flyer trolley bus in April, 2008. Angus McIntyre wore his vintage BC Hydro uniform when this bus was retired in April. It will stay in Vancouver as part of the Transit Museum Society collection, but 80 of its 'stable-mates' are off to new lives in Argentina.Photograph by : Handout - Translink)Labels: old buses
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