APTA-2048
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Typically cutaway buses. Like for Wheel-Trans.
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GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other
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SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
For those who find the mixed liveries on GO consists annoying, you’re gonna like this tender:
RQQ-2022-LCLO-694: Painting Services for Bi-level Rail Coaches & Other Rail Eqpt
RQQ-2022-LCLO-694: Painting Services for Bi-level Rail Coaches & Other Rail Eqpt
gotransitboyhere
New Member
Will all the GO Coaches have the new livery or the old livery.
cplchanb
Senior Member
Shocked that it took so long to come
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
I think you know the answer to this question.
rbt
Senior Member
One of the RER bids may not have been intending to use all of the bilevels.
Refinishing them to send them to scrap or sale would have been an undesired expense.
nfitz
Superstar
Surely they'll be an all-new third livery.
They'd have to fire the branding staff if they didn't change all the fonts and colour-schemes every 4-5 years ...
gotransitboyhere
New Member
I don't know the answer, that's why it's a (QUESTION).
gotransitboyhere
New Member
Thank you for the answer, SaugeenJunction didn't answer it for me. Instead SaugeenJunction said I think you known the answer to this question.
nfitz
Superstar
And yet I was being sarcastic - in reality, I don't know the answer. Though I'd think the answer would be shades of green.
gotransitboyhere
New Member
It would be nice to see the old livery get repainted but not with the new livery.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
I wonder if the ”other” equipment means the F59s too. With Metrolinx stating they will be around for a while longer, they could get the dual-green treatment.
I was teasing you, all in good fun! They will absolutely be re-painted in the current “dual-green” livery. I see this tender as “finishing the re-brand”.
crs1026
Senior Member
You are forgetting the history. When ML introduced the new livery, the question that was widely asked was, why?
The then-Premier, Kathleen Wynne, went on record that there would be no wasteful repainting of anything that didn’t need a new coat of paint. Rebranding would only happen gradually as each coach required it and was going to be repainted anyways.
We all have our personal preferences for new vs old, but in my view that assurance - based on taxpayer pushback to ML’s apparent willingness to rebrand whenever it felt like it - ought to be respected. If that makes things look a bit ragtag, well… call me cheap, but there’s a cultural issue at Ml that remains to be enforced.
- Paul
lenaitch
Senior Member
All sorts of organizations that have a corporate look on their vehicle or employees change it out on a maintenance interval/replacement basis. How long it takes depends on the platform. I imagine Toronto Police might have the odd white car still kicking around. For GO to re-paint in the old livery would be bizarre.
T3G
New Member
I don't really think that the general public cares very much, or at all, about whether GO's consists look ragtag or not. This seems to be a phenomenon that only transportation and urbanist nerds like us would pay attention to. As a railfan and photographer I have my own personal preferences, but when I'm just a regular passenger I couldn't care if the coach was painted vomit green or Pepto Bismol pink as long as it was in good repair and had functioning climate control. I suspect if you polled most of the people waiting for the GO train on any given train platform, you'd get similar responses.
I can't help but feel that the money that will be spent to mass repaint the remaining old livery coaches could have been used more constructively.
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