New Buses Come In While Old Ones Get Rebuilt, Route Names Change As Well.

Metropolis, BR. September 21th, 2014

Over 25 brand new New Flyer Xcelsior Buses are in service for Metropolis Transit

Metropolis Transit recently spoke to legislation about restructuring the bus system as new buses come in and begin to replace the old N.A.B.I. & Orion buses that were not rebuilt. Over 25 brand new buses have been put into service out of Ran Mourie Depot in Bay of Silence. They are mainly seen on the 36 line with spotty trips on the 58 & 28N lines. The new buses use clean diesel engines that are powerful enough to get the buses up and down the hills of West Metropolis and take it up the climb to Lover's Lookout. Drivers of the 36 bus prefer these buses mainly to traverse the Lover's Lookout incline but also because of the change look on Waves Avenue.

The first Xcelsior articulated bus arrives. 

Along with the 26 Xcelsior buses in service, the first of 90 articulated Xcelsior buses arrived on the morning of September 20th to Ran Mourie Depot for evaluation. The new "artics" feature the same new things seen on the smaller counterpart like, backup camera, added security features, air soft suspension for easy traversing hills, and the signature padded strawberry seats. These also have the same powerful engine to go up and down hills with ease. The first bus will be tested before entering service but expect to see it on a line near you soon.

Some existing Bus Routes will soon see a name change. 

As with the changes to the size of the fleet. Starting October 6th 2014, letter prefixes will be dropped from certain lines to reduce confusion. Originally, lines with letter at the end of a number were express line but over the years, budget and perminiate route changes made some Number/Letter lines to become local. So in order to reduce the confusing all express lines are getting the suffix "X" while local number/letter lines will either drop the letter or the number completely.

Routes Affected: 
18L Now Becomes The 18X
19A Now Becomes The 19
28N Now Becomes The 28
28X Remains
32F Now Becomes The 32X
36C Now Becomes The 36 (Interfair Branch)
52G Now Becomes The G
63Q  Now Becomes The 63X
67A Now Becomes The L
74A Now Becomes The 74X