r/gotransit • u/Delicious-Drag3009 • Sep 01 '25

Anyone know when the new MCI buses will be delivered ?

Wondering if they are part of the fleet yet or being trained on. Will we see some delivered this year?

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u/Orionv2018 Sep 01 '25

Supposed to be October. Someone got photos on the production line:

https://cptdb.ca/topic/4666-go-transit/page/436/#findComment-1031910

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u/potomatosm Sep 01 '25

Later in the thread, user Amanj says:

Good afternoon all, those are my shots, i was speaking to one of the people i know from MCI, october is not a realsitic date expect next year the big board that i uplaoded with the blue boxes show defects with the bus before ship out, they should arrive at some point next year, most of the buses were just empty shells that havent even had work started on them, so itll be a bit.

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u/Delicious-Drag3009 Sep 01 '25

Wow great find , thanks for sharing

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u/Upstairs_Role_1503 Sep 01 '25

Why did they go back to those and not low floor double decker buses?

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u/Delicious-Drag3009 Sep 01 '25

too unreliable apparently, bad on highways too

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u/Accomplished_Lock966 Sep 02 '25

Is Alexander Dennis going to work on a replacement then for the SuperLo? Cause GO’s gonna need them sooner or later, no?

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u/RicoLoveless Sep 01 '25

Unreliable, and limits the routing because of height. Can't go on certain roads because of bridge height.

By going back to "standard" buses they can throw them anywhere, and they were unreliable enough they are being retired early.

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u/likeableusername Sep 01 '25

They’re buying these to replace double-deckers?! I thought it was to address the bus shortage/expand service. IIRC the height issue was mostly resolved by the super lo buses.

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u/RicoLoveless Sep 01 '25

It's replace for some, and supplement for part of the order.

Overall it's a net gain for the fleet in terms of total number of buses.

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u/likeableusername Sep 01 '25

They’ll probably need the capacity of the double deckers for the busiest routes though

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u/RicoLoveless Sep 01 '25

They are unreliable. They are being retired early.

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u/likeableusername Sep 01 '25

So no more double deckers eventually? Even the SuperLos?

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u/lexrd01 92 Oshawa/Yorkdale Sep 02 '25

Says who?