The TTC offered a look inside its new articulated buses Thursday as it prepares to roll out the first ones in December in an effort to increase capacity on the transit system.
As the TTC grapples with bunching and overcrowding, the “bendy” or accordion-like buses are capable of carrying 45 per cent more passengers than the existing fleet and they are designed to be more reliable.
The new buses are 18 metres long – six metres longer than the existing ones – and they are capable of carrying as many as 112 passengers.
At a cost of $143 million, transit officials have ordered 153 of the low-floor, clean diesel buses, and they are hoping to have them on seven routes by the end of 2014.
The first route to get them will be the 7 Bathurst route in December, followed by the 29 Dufferin route in January.
The current rollout plan calls for the buses to be running on the following routes by the fall of 2014: 36 Finch West, 63 Ossington, 6 Bay, 85 Sheppard East and 53 Steeles Express.
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