MORRIS COUNTY ROUTES TO BE TAKEN OVER BY NJ TRANSIT EFFECTIVE MONDAY, JUNE 6

The PABCO era in Morris County is over. NJ Transit has announced that the county's transit agency will be taken over by the newly-named NJT Morris beginning on Monday, June 6.

The six routes affected are 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, and 880. These six routes were created in October 2010 after a restructuring and renaming of the four existing MCM series routes.

PABCO had been running thirteen 30-foot Nova Bus RTS on the six routes; it's not known how many, if any, of the buses are salvageable. NJT is set to order 35-foot NABI transits to replace some of the 30-foot Novas. Reportedly NJT is also considering moving some 1994 Flxibles (in remarkably good shape for their age) over from Big Tree Garage.

Here Come The NABI's!

The first two production NABI units for the massive NJT order of over 1150 buses have arrived. The two buses - and it's not quite clear if they're transits or suburbans - are numbered 5201 and 5202.

NABI Sends Dallas Bus To NJ As Demo

The demo has arrived for the NABI buses, and it's a four-year-old suburban bus from the fleet of DART. We will be getting more information on the bus, which is 5722 in the DART fleet. NJT has placed a large order with NABI, which will eventually replace the entire transit fleet, starting with the few remaining 1989 Flxibles.