Long Beach Transit - Fleet Information

Fleet Information

Long Beach Transit was the first transit agency to operate the iconic General Motors RTS bus in the late 1970s. LBT would continue to order the RTS in different forms until the early 1990s. Although all of LBT's RTS buses have been retired, LBT's first RTS was retained as a historical bus.

As of 2009, LBT's fleet is composed mainly of the New Flyer Industries D40LF and GE40LF (gasoline-electric hybrid) models, with a small number of New Flyer D60LF articulated buses and one Prevost coach used for charters. Long Beach Transit is the first transit agency in the world to introduce production-model hybrid gasoline-electric buses into passenger service, with features similar to those on a Toyota Prius. The E-Power Bus (GE40LF), built by New Flyer will be used on all of Long Beach Transit's routes as they are brought into service.

Buses have 4-digit numbers, of which the first two digits of the number represent either the year the bus was placed into service or the number of passengers the bus has capacity for. Buses numbered in the 9000 series were placed into service during the 1990s, buses in the 2000-2900 series were/will be placed into service during the 2000s, and buses in the 4300-4900 series seat 43 to 49 passengers, respectively.

Long Beach Transit operates thirteen 60-foot New Flyer buses, and had options for ten more, but due to new regulations that restricted the purchase of new diesel buses (and the absence of any non-diesel articulated from New Flyer) the buses ended up with Golden Gate Transit in Northern California as assignable options and delivered in 2007.