We Never Use This “Bus Only” Lane | New Gillig Buses!

[@mjsteward5508]

To all the bus and rail operators, no matter what city or state your from, i just want to say thank you for your services because without y'all then it's no public transportation.

[@roccosalvino3554]

It's a shame that so much infrastructure has been abandoned

[@benrichey2593]

We’ve been abandoning infrastructure for over a century, go look at the old streetcar rails under 2nd Ave or along R Street.

[@roccosalvino3554]

@@benrichey2593 i was talking in general about all of the wasted and abandoned infrastructure globally

[@AlvisWuSky]

Yeah

[@mjchicagoland2314]

I had some people look at me weird when i be recording buses and trains in Chicago and other cities. My friend in NYC is a bus driver and transit enthusiasts as well. Thank you for your transit enthusiasm & vlogs in the Sacramento, CA area.

[@cupcake22293]

Thank you for being a bus driver without you people can’t get around. Thank you for what you bus drivers like you are appreciated.

[@BusDriverLife]

Thank you!

[@Dmal2301]

OMg Nice Gulligs! We have horse & Buggy. We just got new horses though. I hate having to clean up after them

[@malcolmking752]

Great video keywan! I still don’t understand why they stopped using the lane, it seems like they could’ve gotten some nice time savings on the 84. Also nice to see the new 2200s!

[@Canleaf08]

1:17 actually the stop requested cords are useful. You can signal your request anywhere without reaching out for the yellow stripes or buttons. In Germany, the cords are rare, EvoBus or Solaris even won't ship busses with those.

[@Cupertinorail]

The old bus you are driving is often see at Citrus Heights or the Arden/Del Paso tram station. Often my favorite 916 bus line the 23

[@CozyLivingMachine]

Great video, as always! Interesting to see the new models as well. I'd love to see a bit more about the maintenance of these buses, if you ever need content ideas! Oil changes, filters, tires, wipers, lights, seats -- what all is involved in maintaining one of these units? I imagine the different engine and fuel types would require different things, but as someone with dreams of converting an old transit bus into a home on wheels down the road, how bad is it? 😂

[@BusDriverLife]

I’m working on a video like that! As soon as I’m able to make it happen I’ll be filming!

[@brewmasuisui2216]

We need more of those bus only lanes we got only three lanes in town

[@duke-967]

Cool video & Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know Sacrt had a bus-only line, and sadly, it's abandoned. They could use this line for future BRT services, but thank you for the information about this abandoned bus line. And that's a lot of new Gilligs. I wonder how many new 2200s buses are?

[@BusDriverLife]

The highest number I have seen so far is 2257..but I think there are more than that.

[@simba1986]

At LA Metro, we have El Dorado National, and our Electric New Flyers for the G Line, have stop request buttons that work off a high pitch air frequency/noise. If you press the buttons, you hear a puff of air. But a lot of times, other things set off the sensor like my keys jangling, or the coach groaning over a pothole/bad road. I'll have no one on my coach, and the stop request will go off. The w/c one will go off too, even though I have no w/c aboard. I always say the coaches are haunted, and the ghosts are messing with me.

[@thebronybusfan4740]

6:30 - I'm totally judging you. Don't worry, I record videos and take pics around traffic in my uniform too while im on my break. People look at me like I'm crazy. Any reason why the bus lane is abandoned?? We appreciate you sharing what you experience as a bus operator in Sacramento. I must say it's really interesting.

[@mjchicagoland2314]

I had people look at me weird too when I recorded buses and trains. My friend in NYC is a transit enthusiast and bus driver as well. I got my other friend into transit enthusiasm and he does other hobbies as well.

[@andychittenden]

SacRT Forward in 2019 moved route 84 (Which served the lane before 2019) off of it onto former route 80's alignment on La Riviera Drive.

[@1958zed]

Here in San Diego, they installed bus only lanes on a new Rapid bus route (Rapid 225) running through Chula Vista on the way to the Otay Mesa Border crossing. There are two lanes (one in each direction), and it generally works quite well. Initially, the traffic signals didn't seem to be timed all that well. Just as the driver pulled up to stop, the signal would change to allow him/her to proceed. That was annoying. It seems they have the sensors and signals better timed now. There is one section that is one lane, and that's on a bridge over the Southbay Expressway. The bridge has a very slight S-curve to it and signals with gates to prevent two buses heading in opposite directions from being on the bridge at the same time. In theory. On the third night the new route was in service, I was riding it home from work. The bridge signal malfunctioned and there were two buses nose-to-nose stuck on the bridge. The driver said that he was not allowed to back his bus up without a supervisor present, so we had to wait 45 minutes for the supervisor to arrive on scene. With the S-curve in the bridge, it was a challenge even for a seasoned driver to back the articulated New Flyer bus up for a quarter mile until we were off the bridge. They've since worked out the bugs with the bridge signal and, to my knowledge, that hasn't happened again.

[@katrinawilliams5636]

Hopefully they will reopen the bus only lane,less traffic hassles. That is cool 😊

[@Cupertinorail]

About the company cars/service vehicles. They are not always available. From where I live, we only have a select few which are used to bring tram/bus operators to a starting point.

[@Tigerwarhawk]

Has your bus company gone with the smaller steering wheels on the Gilligs? I hate the smaller wheels.

[@logical-minds]

Jacksonville Transportation Authority in Florida is the complete opposite in regards to the stop request system. The older buses up to 2015 (when the first CNGs were put into service/only CNGs with buttons #2500s) uses buttons and 2016-2021 buses uses cords. As of right now the #3100s are the newest in service but tracking info. on TransSee is showing 6 new #3200s at the garage for a few months. For me Jacksonville's fleet and when they receive new buses is weird because by the time an order of buses come in for that model year that year is either over with or is the beginning of the following year. For example, many of the CNG's for their respective model years didn't enter service until November or December of each year, sometimes January of the following year. Also they retired their 2008 #1700s and 2009 #1900s standard Low-Floors but still have the 2007 standard BRTs #1600s in service. One of their buses only lasted just under a year due to a major rollover accident, 2017 BRTPlus CNG #2708.

[@Dmal2301]

I didn't know Malcolm Jamal-Warner's dad drove a bus? Just joking great video

[@BusDriverLife]

His dad?? He’s literally older than me!! I guess I look elderly! 🤣 it’s cool..I was looking rough in this video.

[@Mikerty391]

Great video

[@PinePowerLI]

I wonder how much longer those Orions will be around with all those new Gilligs coming in. I'm guilty of pressing that walk button a lot trying to get the light to change only to hear "wait", same exact voice as here in NY as well. I wonder why they stopped using the bus only lane.

[@salbedolla3396]

It’s amazing how many people stare at the rear doors and not touch the strip!!! 🤷‍♂️

[@benrichey2593]

Infuriating that this was abandoned after only four years. The disruption from construction was a mess, and now it’s just crumbling.

[@TXMEDRGR]

Does the city administration give the drivers any insight into future plans for the bus system? Thanks for sharing, the new buses look very nice.

[@fluffytransitcommission]

1:30 TTC-Toronto still has them

[@jagroopahluwalia]

Brampton transit also has them on their old nova busses

[@fireshorts5789]

And Hamilton. And pretty much every other GTAH agency I've seen.

[@gregjohnson3113]

Hi Keywan! Love the channel. I turn the wheel up here in Edmonton. I see you on various shifts, are you on spareboard or do you sign a shift? Thanks for the great videos!

[@nixcails]

Isn't that a tram not a train (he says pendantically) my local bus is also the 72 a pretty cool route linking the city of Plymouth to the fishing villages of Looe and Polperro via Trerulefoot, Catchfrench , No Man's Land, crumplehorn and Barcelona. A reliable every two hours interurban 7 days a week. Leeds in Yorkshire has a contra flow single lane bus lane in the middle of a section of dual carriageway (divided highway) which is basically run as city bound buses in the morning peak and suburban direction in evening peaks.

[@TratzPatratz]

Great vid! Shoutout from Toronto!

[@BusDriverLife]

Thanks!! I’ve never been to Toronto before..I hope to visit one day!

[@juliesmith5567]

That bus you were on with cord and doors with light to open them sounds wierd even you say what you say they don't always listen anyway

[@josephnyy86]

When reporting to work, do you like relieving a driver on the road or pulling out a bus yourself?

[@jdrum3053]

I live in Des Moines and ride DART, we use the exact same buses, fun fact, the 4 digit bus number not the route, the first 2 digits are year and the last 2 are the bus ID number 🤪🤪

[@mjsteward5508]

Any bus operators no matter what city your from, i want to ask y'all a question. I want to know do y'all like driving your bus fleets like Novas, New Flyer Industries, NABIs, Orions or Gilligs???

[@LUNITUNZBackup]

2:10 Technically somebody is on the bus... You.

[@cnmathias5187]

Now is there a fight over who gets to drive the , “new bus”

[@GILLIGFAN]

You hate to see service cuts Routes and infrastructure abandoned

[@williamgreeter1855]

MCTS permanently lost the freeway flyers due to the pandemic they got some Nova buses for Connect 1 and the newest bus on the fleet was a Gillig number 6257 they’ll be getting more Gilligs soon in 6300 series

[@BusDriverLife]

Sad to see the freeway flyers go..that was iconic for Milwaukee!

[@Qrail]

2 👍🏼👍🏼 I did 20 there. What is your number 4000?

[@thekingAnas1]

Why you don’t have a nova bus or new flyer 😊 of there

[@TransitAndTeslas]

Could easily make a BRT out of that bus lane.

[@tfp_4215]

That road is definitely a place I do not want to walk near lol

[@BusDriverLife]

Fortunately the traffic wasn’t too bad at that moment

[@tfp_4215]

@@BusDriverLife Yeah

[@SIG442]

That stop request thing, just wow... how crude and outdated. The EU does indeed have buttons, even for passengers in wheelchairs. You will see a red "stop" appear above the driver and it gives a bell "ding" sound. While the driver gets also notified with a red light directly in his view so he can't mistake it for something else. This way the windows are clear in case of a emergency and less difficult to get trough.

[@randybooker5957]

I want to ask a question Bus Driver Life, do bus operator supposed to know what bus fleets they're riding on mind me asking?? Like if it's a Gillig, NABI, Orion, New Flyer Industries ir NOVA LFS bus fleet?

[@RenoBusdriver]

Usually when we arrive at Facility there is list of bus numbers and our block number (routes we are assigned). Least where I work that is how we do things

[@adlam97531]

why was the route withdrawn?

[@TaylorMMontgomery]

why is the bus lane abandoned?

[@john2011jb]

Are their any plans to deactivate the bus Only Lanes

[@john2011jb]

Correction reactivate the bus lanes

[@bayareatransithub]

What route served that discountinued stop?

[@andychittenden]

84

[@brewmasuisui2216]

Dude the rear door drama 🤦🏽‍♂️ and those famous words “back door!” The green light is on and instead off following the simple instructions they look up to us like we in the wrong 🤦🏽‍♂️ c’mon man get it together

[@deadgamer21]

Manlove 😂

[@Dmal2301]

Watt/Manlove Station?

[@BusDriverLife]

Yup

[@Mahfudsidiq22]

Bus yg sangat bagus moderen 7:21