More Hybirds Coming to MTA Bus

Over the past few months, Orion has been delivering more and more hybrid buses to MTA Bus, the new company formed to manage the taken-over private bus lines of NYC. These new HEVs bring an update to either the engine or hybrid propulsion system (namely BAE Systems’ HybriDrive), are slightly quieter than the older model year buses, and obviously benefit from newer environment-protecting technology. If you would like to find out where these new buses (as well as all the other buses under the MTA) are located, by depot, there is an excellent roster available for download at the BusTalk.Net forums (this is the December 2006 edition; to be updated on a monthly basis). to the best of my knowledge, there are still some to be delivered, so expect to see them in next months roster, which I will post about when the time comes.