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THE SHOWBUS AMERICA BUS IMAGE GALLERY
AC Transit | Coaches
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 Stunning additions to the commuter fleet in 2000 were a batch of MCI 102DLA3 in metallic green and silver. MCI 6033 shows what can be done with graphics on the new digital destination screens as it leaves the Bay Area Transit Terminal in downtown San Francisco. |
The MCI coaches used to layover on the abandoned flyover with the rest of the commuter fleet.
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 Another MCI arrives downtown, passing one of the many Gilligs parked up. |
 MCI 6014 leaves the Bay Area Terminal on route SB. |
 MCI 6003 heads a line up of parked up MCI coaches. |
 Here is one of those MCI 102-DL3 coaches in October 2013, 6021, with another bringing up the rear. |
 By June 2017 newer D4500 MCI coaches had joined the fleet like 6078 seen leaving the temporary Bay Area Transit Terminal.
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 The new Salesforce Transit Center opened just over a year before this picture of MCI D4500 6069 was taken there in November 2019. Many of the MCI coaches had by then been displaced by the new fleet of Alexander Dennis doubledeckers.
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The Transit Center is several stories above ground level so commuter coaches arrive directly from the Bay Bridge. MCI D4500 6045 can be seen way above street level entering the Center.
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 MCI D4500 coaches seen parked up at Oakland depot and viewed from a BART train. From left to right are 6042, 6043, 6044, 6069 6068, 6046, 6066, 6063 and 6045. The line behind features Gillig Advantages.
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 New in 2023 were 36 MCI D45 CRT LE commuter coaches like 6325 seen entering the Salesforce Transit Center that October.
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 This D45 CRT LE is a strange beast. Unlike European coaches low floor access is achieved not through the front door but by a new centre entrance, visible here on 6327.
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 The Salesforce Transit Center is literally topped off by a roof top garden which provides views of the special bus only road way leading from the Bay Bridge into the Bus Station. Note that this pair of new MCI coaches, 6306 followed by 6304. has swapped to the other side of the road ready for their doors to align with the kerb in the station on the offside of the coach.
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 Leaving the Salesforce Transit Center 6304 approaches the traffic lights which will enable it to switch to the normal carriageway for left-hand driis literally topped off by a roof top garden which provides views of the special bus only road way leading from the Bay Bridge into the Bus Station. Note that this pair of new MCI coaches has swapped to the other side of the road ready for their doors to align with the kerb in the station on the offside of the coach.
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 The first of the D45 coaches, 6301, skirts the Bus Terminal.
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 MCI D45 6311 enters the Transit Center followed by Gillig Advantage 1675.
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 With bike and passengers boarded 6311 completes the huge loop around the Transit Center at the mandated funereal pace before heading to Piedmont.
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