The city issued a recommendation of award for 60-foot, articulated, five-door clean diesel buses to New Flyer under a 2016 solicitation.
The contract includes 10 firm orders, with options to purchase an additional 18 buses, and establishes a new partnership.
Altogether, NJ TRANSIT has purchased over 2,000 coaches over three decades from MCI.
Each bus is equipped numerous safety features including security cameras, an audible safe turn alert system, and curbside and street-side turn aid lights, as well as a factory-installed driver’s barrier to increase bus operator safety.
The New Flyer Xcelsior buses have been designed for a special BRT system that improves route capacity and schedule reliability.
The order will include 40- and 60-foot CNG, diesel, and clean diesel buses.
The order adds 216 equivalent units to New Flyers firm order backlog.
Golden Touch, a subsidiary of Transdev North America, will deploy the buses at John F. Kennedy International Airport to support the expansion of Delta Air Lines’ JFK Jitney Shuttle service that Golden Touch operates.
Staff informed the board that this is intended to be the last diesel bus purchase that SamTrans will make because the Transit District would eventually like to convert its current fleet to electric buses in the future.
The new order, which adds a total of 11 equivalent units to New Flyer’s backlog, supports METRO’s aged fleet replacement with diesel buses, as well as planned fleet expansion with CNG buses to support the growing Portland community.
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