Bergen Avenue IBOA

For the record, the Bergen Avenue IBOA ceased operations on March 12, 2011. The A&C Bus Company will now be running the route. As a stop gap, Montgomery and Westside received some mothballed Flxibles in the 1900 series to replace the Nova Buses that were pulled off the road.

Bergen Avenue's buses were Novas 1240-1244, 1523-1528, and 1530. None were deemed repairable by the NJDMV so they have been junked.

The IBOA (Independent Bus Owners Association) model is slowly disappearing into history. Montgomery and Westside is perhaps the only one left, out of a long line that as late as the 1990's included Lafayette and Greenville, Broadway, Central Ave. and some of the Newark independents which have since merged into Coach USA's transit operations.

We're Back... Again

Since we last spoke with you, there have been a number of changes to the NJT Roster. 250 new NABI suburbans have been delivered, thus making possible the long-overdue retirement of the Flxible Suburbans from 1989. Those buses hung around almost twice as long as the Eagle AE-20's delivered the same year, which were quickly shown the door in 2001.

Approximately the same number of NABI transits have been delivered, but that is just a fraction of an almost 900-bus order. We are still awaiting serial number information on these buses.

If you go to the Fleet Roster page, you will see links to the four fleet snapshots we've done, the most recent being from this month, detailing each bus' location by number.