are the DB fleet getting a new yellow ,blue livirie because i seen it on the 11in town the other day
[posted by: gary]
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new liviries
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Posted 5 years ago #
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I've only seen one bus with this livery, in O'Connell Street the other morning, it seems to advertise www.dublinbus.ie fairly heavily on it.
No idea if this is going to be rolled out among the rest of the fleet, a stupid way to spend the 2002 surplus if they did do that, surely they have a confusing enough colour scheme on the rest of the fleet as it is: red/yellow imps all over the place. cityswift/super city swift/regular livery on other routes, buses marked with specific names and destinations on the side running on the wrong routes (stillorgan flyers running on the 75 route for instance). God help anybody from out of town trying to make sense of a Fingal Flyer livery on a bus like, for instance, the 16.
Anyone else have any idea what the deal is with this new bus livery? Are we facing another grand aul repaint job?Posted 5 years ago # -
The Bus in question is AV76 and it is indeed a new livery DB is trying out. further info can be found at http://www.allaboutbuses.com/30807-av76.html
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
By the way,the plan is to introduce a standard livery for Dublin Bus so that it's ditinctive from our independent counterparts.Out go city swift,imp and the like and in comes one new one,maybe this one.
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
Oh, please, not another one. Is this what DB does with its supposed surplus, blow more money on consultants to come up with new unnecessary livery changes on the darn buses????? This has gone beyond outrageous to just plain scandalous. What was wrong with the cream, orange and navy all of a sudden?!? Suddenly, two-tone green looks a heck of a lot better, doesn’t it.
If DB really wants to save money, just drop the CitySwift, City Imp, Airlink, and whatever other odd-ball liveries and standardise on the cream/orange/navy one. You don’t have to change liveries with ever new type of bus that arrives in the garage—that should have never been permitted when the second stage of Atlanteans arrived with the VanHool bodies, no, those buses should have had the cream/black livery like the Leyland Titans and the first-generation Atlanteans. You say you are going to cut waste, cut it where it is most prevalent instead of cutting routes!!! Ridiculous.
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Every bus has a three year paint renewal cycle anyway which mean's all the 00 low floor buses are due to be repainted either way.I presume the change to this livery will be done when each bus is due it's repainting and not enmasse therefore no money wasted.
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
Every bus has a three year paint renewal cycle anyway
What?? Now that is total waste. There is absolutely no need to blow money on painting buses, especially on something that should last the life of the bus. How absurd. Well, now you know where all the subsidy money has gone…Posted 5 years ago # -
Every bus has a three year paint renewal cycle anyway
What?? Now that is total waste. There is absolutely no need to blow money on painting buses, especially on something that should last the life of the bus. How absurd. Well, now you know where all the subsidy money has gone…Posted 5 years ago # -
I agree, a paint job should last the buses lifetime but with scumbags constantly spraying graffiti all over them,which then has to be patched up,not to mention drivers with varying skill levels having knocks, paint renewing is a necessary evil to keep the fleet looking good.
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
The graffiti problem was at its most sordid on the NYC subways during the latter 1970s to mid 1980s; the problem was cleaned up (literally) during the tenure of David Gunn (present head of Amtrak) who insisted on daily cleanings of subway cars plus applications of paint-resistant treatment compounds on the surface of the train coaches. The buses were affected far less than the subway trains; nonetheless, I suspect that the same manner of treatment could be given to the buses as well. Certain silicone compounds can be added to coats of paint to make the surface into a non-stick compound which no paint or other kind of resin will be able to adhere to permanently, short of using some kind of chemical compound which would not be readily available. It can be done…
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As We'd have to repaint all buses to include this resin we can apply whichever new livery is chosen at the same time!!!
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
Thus noting that DB is some decade-and-a-half late in implementing existing technology >:-(Posted 5 years ago #
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Better late than never. the new DB motto. :-)
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
Yup, it has showed in their schedule-keeping on bus services, recently… :-PPosted 5 years ago #
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