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Originally Posted by lazypucker
Those freaking buses were almost 40 years old !?
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Originally Posted by Byrns
Its nice Calgary decided to honor it's history by still using the buses from 1976.
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I believe there is only one bus left in the fleet that has the 2 tone blue colour scheme. It's bus #1046 and is a 1980 GM New Look "fishbowl." It might even be fully retired itself now.
I think there's still a couple of 1978 and 1979 units kicking around the yards but they aren't in revenue service anymore, although Calgary Transit had dozens of buses from the late 70s in operation no more than a few years ago.
The City went through several years of not buying buses in the 80s and then after that they switched to the boxy New Flyer models in the early 90s which aren't as easy to maintain, so there's a big gap in the age of the buses. Those old GM buses were built pretty good and ran forever with diligent upkeep.