Boston, MA – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or MBTA has revealed plans to replace their current trolleybuses on routes 71 and 73, with battery-electric buses. MBTA plans to discontinue trolley bus (or trackless trolley) service on routes 71 and 73 in March 2022, and temporarily place traditional buses on the line. While traditional buses…
Congratulations to BurjTransit for winning the photo of the month for February 2022. Over on our discord server, we had a friendly competition to see who’s photo will become Photo of the Month. The theme was “winter wonderland” and the winner would have their photo featured as the site’s cover photo. With 7 votes, this…
Philadelphia, PA – SEPTA‘s Boulevard Direct has a new livery that shows the stops of the Boulevard Direct service, as well as a more “in motion” design featuring icons related to SEPTA. This isn’t so much a news post, as it is an excuse to show the new livery. Images below. As of right now,…
New York City, NY – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation’s largest transit operator, says farewell to the nation’s oldest subway cars. After 58 years of service, the Budd R32 cars finally retired from revenue service this past Sunday. The R32 class subway cars first entered service in 1964 and were built by the Budd…
Camden, NJ – New Jersey Transit of New Jersey has received a New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE XE35 electric bus to demo from New Flyer Industries. Currently, this bus is sitting at Newton Avenue garage. No word on if the demonstration includes operating in revenue service or not but it’s not likely. New Jersey Transit is…
You read that right guys! As of today, the DashTransit channel has merch available! For anyone who supports the DashTransit channel on Patreon, and pledges at least 30 dollars a month will get a T-shirt after 3 months. More than that and you could get more! For people who pledge 35+ a month: After 3…
New York City, NY – MTA of New York City has announced mass service cuts throughout the system due to a COVID-19 related operator shortage. For the most part, services affected are rush-hour and weekday only routes. A Trains will not be operating to Far Rockaway B Trains will not operate at all W Trains…
From the team here on Virtual Transit Center, as well as our discord team: Happy New Year 2022! Hopefully, this year will be even better than the last! The Good Although 2021 was considered to be a bad year by most, for The Virtual Transit Center as well as the DashTransit Channel over on YouTube,…
Claymont, DE – Starting today, December 1st, 2021, SEPTA Route 113 and DART First State routes 13 and 61 will no longer serve Tri-State Mall. A land developer has purchased the land that was once Tri-State Mall and intends to tear down the former mall in order to build warehouses. In turn, buses have been…
NorthWest Studios is proud to officially announce the release of Aberdeen, our flagship OMSI 2 project, which has been in development for the past 1.5 years!
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. This will be the last and final delivery of the CT model as Motor Coach Industries…
Philadelphia, PA: In the spirit of the holidays, SEPTA is once again doing Christmas buses for each depot. The 2004 New Flyer D40LF buses that have been sitting on the sidelines for the past year and a half have made their way to each depot to be decorated. For those that want the numbers, the…
