Metropolis Transit Goes For New Flyer Order Option, 100 More Trackless Trolley.

Metropolis BR, June 2nd 2014

More Trackless Coaches Are Heading To Metropolis. 

After talks with New Flyer and having bus #1800 go into service, Metropolis Transit exercised the option for 100 mores buses. These being trackless trolley coaches for service along the 13, 18, 25, 40, 44 & R Lines which use overhead power pole to move instead of a dirtier diesel engine. These new Trackless Trolley will have option for 2.3 Miles of off-wire full movement by use of a battery and will also contain a small diesel motor to be used during longer reroutes but at slower speeds then using electricity. They will also feature new SwivelTech Trolley poles which will ease turning with trolley poles and creating a faster moving coach.

Older coaches will be replace by the ones above. 

These 100 new coach will join the 10 that are in production with the current order which also contain two variants of the diesel motored buses. These new "Xcelsior" coaches will replace the 100 North American Bus Industries coaches that have been in service since 1998. The first of the new trackless coaches will arrive in 2015 and the last one is set to deliver in mid-2016. By then, the last N.A.B.I. Trackless Coach will be around 18-years-old.