Talk:AC Transit fleet

Retirement

Can you tell me why each of every bus has retired and been replaced if necessary?

Generally speaking, buses are retired due to age. FTA has prescribed a 12-year life for heavy-duty transit buses (these are usually 35' and longer; not applicable to trolleybuses) that receive federal subsidies and most of the Bay Area transit agencies follow that guideline, retiring buses as they age out of service. If you dig into the publicly-available documents on the AC Transit website (specifically look for "Short Range Transit Plan") there is usually a bus fleet management matrix that shows age of each type of bus. When the bus is retired prior to the FTA-mandated age, some other factor has come into play, like a manufacturer recall, or some design defect. This is why the tests at Altoona are valuable to demonstrate the bus can meet a 12-year life. Of course, there are specific exceptions, and in some cases, buses have been refurbished to extend their life beyond 12 years.

If you are asking when each bus was retired, or specific reasons why a bus was retired, that scope of detail is generally beyond Wikipedia, and you may be better served with a specialist site like the CPTDB wiki. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 14:35, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Hydrogen fuel cell buses

Hi all, I've been working on the Hydrogen fuel cell bus article - given AC Transit's experience in this area would love to see what you think. I've added a few bits based on what I have found. Turini2 (talk) 22:03, 26 October 2022 (UTC)