Скачать или смотреть The Truth about MTA Maryland's NovaBus

As you may know, since 2019, MDOT MTA agreed to a contract with NovaBus for an order of 350 coaches [including 40 artics; 310 standards] over a five-year period (2020-24).
This condition was for 70 units per year with the standard true diesel setup [8.9 L engine & 6-speed Allison transmission] sitting on a ZF chassis.
Keep in mind, this isn't a based criticism about the manufacturer nor MDOT MTA maintenance in regards to the fleet of NovaBuses on our roster but 'what you'll see is what you see.'
Now, not all 350 NovaBus coaches are in this state of disrepair as to warrant administrative intervention but it does highlight the glaring issues the coaches encounter just 4-5 years into their revenue of operations. Unlike New Flyer and, likely, GILLIG [from my own experience], the NovaBus buses receive MDOT MTA has endure the same lacking in quality on nearly each coach since their arrival.
These glaring quality issues include the frame fatigue not even a handful of years into their usefulness; broken panels that puts operators at risk of facial or heading injuries; poor assembly of the interior; ride quality... my goodness, the ride quality is piss poor, especially amongst the poorly maintain roadways of the Greater Baltimore region. That alone could be covered without any vocal description of what you're watching. Needless to say, NovaBus has failed to delivered on their promise for good quality buses. Once again, not every coach from NovaBus is in this bad of state but there are far too many outweighing the well-built units.
FYI, maintenance & repairs have nothing to do with the quality issues seen here nor any of the other 350 NovaBuses in the fleet across the
system. This is purely a manufacturing failure from NovaBus, whom has uprooted from the US-market (yet again) to center their focus solely on the Canadian bracket.

Luckily, from MDOT MTA's manager of warranty, he has make it an obvious stance to never purchase from NovaBus -- if they so happen to return to the US-market (yet again) somewhere down the line -- ever again. Unfortunately, we are locked into this agreement via the FTA to keep this coaches registered on-duty for the next 6-10 years (2032-36) to avoid any legal violations with the federal procurement act.


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