Newark, NJ – New Jersey Transit advanced the delivery of the 2022 D4500CT highway coaches from Motor Coach Industries (MCI). There are to be 120 of these buses delivered, which will complete the contract placed in 2016 with MCI.

Then-Brand New 2019 MCI D4500CT at SEPTA Roadeo 2019
Then-Brand New 2019 MCI D4500CT at SEPTA Roadeo 2019

This will be the last and final delivery of the CT model as Motor Coach Industries intends to discontinue this model beginning FY 2023. The MCI D4500CT and D4000CT models will be replaced with the CRT and CRT LE models which are already in production.

NJ Transit has been a loyal customer to the CT models, as they’ve been receiving them since conception in 2008, originating from an MTA rejected order. Starting in 2014, New Jersey Transit has exclusively ordered MCI D4500CTs for their coach bus fleet. To show this, starting in 2016, all coach buses (and eventually transit buses) were numbered based on year, as opposed to having a normal 4-digit number.

With this last order, NJ Transit will have to look at new models for their future fleets.

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Starting in July 2011, the Canon SX130IS camera became the camera of the channel, bringing HD documentary-style videos much like my buddy (trainman1971) did for DVD for many years past. This is when the channel became known as "Transit Action Series"

In May 2012, the original Canon SX130IS retired, and then all videos were recorded off a mobile phone until eventually uploaded proved too difficult due to hardships IRL

Starting in 2017, I used a Canon SX200IS from Bastranz to reboot the channel that otherwise was dead for a whole year prior.

Between April 19th, 2019, and January 21st, 2021, all videos were recorded by a Canon SX710 HS camera. The channel was renamed DashTransit 4/19/19.

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