Millennium Demos Arrive

The first two RTS buses from Millennium Transit Services LLC have arrived on NJ Transit property, which are the demo buses for an order of 289 that will replace the 1989 3000- and 3500-series Flxibles, at present the oldest buses in the NJT fleet.

According to longtime NJT observer Jim Skelton, the transit demo carries the number 4101, and the suburban demo is 4201. These buses have now been added to our roster. No word as to where these buses will fit into the current NJT numbering plan. My guess is that they'll start the transits from 2801 and the suburbans from 3801.

Millennium Transit LLC acquired the assets and intellectual property of Nova Bus, last manufacturer of the venerable RTS bus design pioneered by General Motors in the 1970's, in 2003.

Site Updates: We rarely tweak our Roster pages since they're so static, but I found a small glitch in the 1982-1984 6100-series MCI pages: buses 6398 and 6399 were grouped into a larger bunch of buses that were originally owned by the Port Authority. The two buses were originally assigned to Coachways in southern New Jersey and were never owned by PA NY/NJ (as were 6502-6561), so the buses did not have PA prefixes on their numbers; that's now been fixed. (6398 met a premature end, while 6399 was eventually absorbed into the Academy Lines fleet.) We've also added the serials completing the 53-bus order of MCI D4500's numbered 9001-9053.