SHOWBUS AMERICA BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Maple Grove Transit
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 Seen outside a cinema is one of several paratransit Ford E350 buses in the fleet back on August 2011. |
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 Maple Grove Transit was only born in 1990. In 1991, the city of Maple Grove contracted fixed-route operations to Twin Cities MetroTransit, who continue to operate the service today out of their MJ Ruter garage in Brooklyn Center. Dial-a-ride service is provided by Midwest Paratransit. There were three main express routes to downtown Minneapolis and one to Minnesota Unversity. The express fleet in 2011 was a mixture of Gillig Phantoms and MCI coaches like MG12 a 2000 40ft Phantom and 60024 a new MCI D4500CT, plus New Flyer artics and five low floor D40LF. |
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 Seen in the same spot are a pair of Gillig Phantoms, MG10 and MG14 from the same 2000 batch. |
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 The first low floor buses in the fleet were the five New Flyer D40LF new in 2006, this is the second, MG19. |
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 The other New Flyers in 2011 were eleven high floor artic D60 models transferred from MetroTransit. This is the first of the batch, 3109 - they all retained their MetroTransit fleet numbers. |
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Seen in downtown Minneapolis is another of the 2000 Phantoms, MG15.
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 Leaving Minneapolis for Maple Grove Transit Station in the 781 is New Flyer D60 3118. |
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In 2026 the D60 artics had been replaced by Xcelsior XD60, the Phantoms by a much smaller number of Gillig BRT models, whilst the MCI D4500CT was still in favour, though even 60024 had left the fleet for MetroTransit. All buses were numbered in the Metro Transit series.
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