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SEARCHThe new Enviro500 will be built as part of the partnership between Alexander Dennis and Big Rig Manufacturing.
BC Transit continues to use double-deck vehicles as their high-capacity bus of choice and including the latest order, it has now bought over 110 double-deck buses.
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Alexander Dennis received a firm order for 29 Enviro500 double-deck buses from BC Transit in British Columbia, Canada.
BC Transit is a provincial government corporation that provides planning, marketing, fleet, and funding support for all transit services in British Columbia outside of the Metro Vancouver region.
BC Transit works in partnership with 59 local governments and operates 57 transit systems.
The new Enviro500 will be built as part of the partnership between Alexander Dennis and Big Rig Manufacturing. They will be supported in operation by Alexander Dennis’s own staff as well as through the wider NFI Parts organization.
When the new buses are delivered next year, they will mark the 25th anniversary since BC Transit became an industry innovator by placing the first double-deck buses into transit service in North America as part of the Victoria Regional Transit System.
BC Transit continues to use double-deck vehicles as their high-capacity bus of choice and including the latest order, it has now bought over 110 double-deck buses.
The upcoming vehicles will replace earlier BC Transit double-deck buses that have reached the end of their operating lives, a process that began in 2021. This has already seen the very first Alexander Dennis double decker in North America retired and repatriated to the UK, where it will be preserved as part of the manufacturer’s heritage fleet.
Including BC Transit, Alexander Dennis has now confirmed orders from transit agencies in Canada and the U.S. for more than 110 Enviro500 and Enviro500EV double-deck buses since the restart of production was announced.
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