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doglover44 · Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Dayton OH

Has anyone seen these yet ? they loook so cool on the website I would love to see one in person evently will.

RailBus63 · Moderator Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063

They are all over the Northeast - I've seen them throughout New York state and southern New England.

nycbusfan · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 258 Location: Brooklyn, NY

I photographed two of them last friday. I have also saw a bunch of them on the NJ Turnpike on sunday.

RailBus63 · Moderator Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063

Here is one of the new Greyhound buses in Syracuse in May:

roymanning2000 · Age: 77 Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 198

There really aren't that many Prevosts in comparison to the total Greyhound fleet. Right now, the Northeast (particularly the Boston-New York-Washington corridor) is hotly competitive, bus-wise. Greyhound will probably keep its best buses in that part of the country for the time being.

It also has to simplify maintenance to some degree. Only a few garages have to stock parts and maintenance personnel can become more familiar with the Prevost product versus MCI.

It may take some time before long distance pools are re-equipped. Most likely, Greyhound will rebuild the MCI 102DL3's with some, if not all, of the amentities found in the Prevosts and paint them in a similar scheme.

Roy

Dieseljim · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: Rebuilding the MCI 102DL3s

If any one bus is the best of the current generation MCI, outside of the retiring MC12, it is the 102DL3, most of the rest of them are pieces of junk. When the DL3 is rebuilt, I hope a few of the seats go as 55 seats so close together is really packing them in like sardines. I ought to know, I've been on one really packed DL 3. In addition to the amenities found on the new Prevost, the only other way to improve the DL3 is more legroom in that bus. It would make a generally exellent MCI bus even better.

RailBus63 · Moderator Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063

Greyhound webpage about the new Prevosts:

The Future of Bus Travel

According to this page, the new buses are being operated on the following routes:

New York to Montreal
New York to Toronto
New York to Boston
Washington, DC to Boston
Washington, DC to New York
Washington, DC to Montreal

Dieseljim

The new Prevost coach ought to be a wakeup call for MCI to stop turning out so much junk and if they have not done so already, stop building them south of the border. Especially stop building so many rolling fire traps, too. I think I am going to like the new Prevost coach.

HwyHaulier · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 932 Location: Harford County, MD

Dieseljim - All -

In its Inter Office Memos, hasn't Greyhound declared its switch from MCI to Prevost? History repeats...

................Vern.................

Steve Carras · Age: 64 Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 63

I've seen those..nice.

shortlineMCI · Age: 56 Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 241

Hankg42 · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:15 am Post subject:

It may be of interest that the "terminal" for at least some of these routes is 34th Street, just to the west of 8th Ave. Both Bolt and Greyhound utilize this curbside "terminal". At some times of the day, you can't pass on the sidewalk it is so crowded. On rainy days, people have to huddle under the theater marquee nearby. It is really organized chaos trying to board the bus, or walk on by. Only 7 blocks uptown is the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Do they charge big access fees that the bus lines don't want to pay? This seems really to be a disservice to paying riders.