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Bus Photo of the Month: September 2026

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Gillig Advantage/HEV 5733

Location: Fifth Avenue at University Place, Pittsburgh, PA
Operator of Vehicle: Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Date of Photo: November 27, 2015

I’ll be Pittsburgh bound in a few days for the first time since 2024, and I expect the OTP Son to be enthralled by the Steel City’s multicolored bus fleet.  For many years, buses seemed to be randomly painted in an array of colors, such as red, gold, green and blue.  As far as I can figure out, there is no rhyme or reason to which color a bus might be painted.  For example, in this photo, you can see the photo focuses on a green vehicle, but other buses in the background of the photo are gold.  In 2022, the Allegheny County Port Authority announced that it would be rebranded as Pittsburgh Regional Transit, with a new gray and gold color scheme.  When this rebranding was announced, PRT said that buses would be repainted gradually while all new buses would arrive in the new scheme.  So it will certainly be interesting to see how my son reacts to the different bus colors, given that he usually notices such things and is more accustomed to fleets having standardized colors.

For more photos of PRT buses, please click here.  

Bus Photo of the Month: November 2016

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Gillig Advantage/HEV 7125

Location: Nicolet Mall at Washington Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
Operator of Vehicle: METRO Transit
Date of Photo: May 1, 2014

No matter where in the world you are, it would be hard to believe that you are not aware of the fact that a presidential election is taking place in the United States next week.  In light of this fact, it seemed appropriate to feature a photo from METRO Transit in Minneapolis, which offered free rides on Election Day in 2014 to make it easier for people to get to the polls.  I have yet to find word about whether or not METRO Transit is offering that again, though I have been told that free rides are being made available in Houston (a city that Oren’s Transit Page has yet to visit) to access the polls both for early voting and on Election Day itself.

Do you know of other transit systems that offer free rides on Election Day?  If so, let others know by posting a comment below this post.  Finally, if you are eligible to participate in the US election next Tuesday, please take the time to go to the polls, cast a ballot, and make your voice heard.  (If you don’t live in the US, you are encouraged to do the same at the appropriate time for the location in which you live.)  Our freedoms, including the right to be able to photograph transit vehicles in public rights of way, depend on our participation in the democratic system.

For more photos of METRO Transit buses, please click here.