A bus broke down on the train tracks and another bus comes in and starts playing bumper bus with it to move it. The other bus’s air brakes had lost their compression so the brakes were on full (note the brake lights are on in the other bus) Decided to get to school extra early and lo and behold the train that should have gotten me to the university at 7:20 was delayed for over an hour due to a bus breaking down on one side of the tracks at 14st NW. After another bus failed to ram the bus from its position and a mechanic failed to fix the bus they brought in the heavy weapon. Enjoy.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
These Buses run on Air Breaks. When the air breaks get between 45 to 20psi the emergency air break will engage. In this case it was cold enough that the air breaks couldn’t function normally. Drivers get a warning at 60psi or above a warning light and alarm will come on giving the driver enough time to pull over somewhere safe. IF the driver remembered though there is a over ride button he/she could have pressed to get enough air to get off the tracks. Instead we get bumper bus.
@reck101101 they’ve bought Nova buses
@megatron0007 its sideways cause that’s how all the new gangstas hold their 9′s
hahahayou got video of it. funny lol
@OMolokai are you sure, what you’re saying is possible? These buses are very low, with the air pressure lost , clearance is less than 6″ . How would you get under the bus to access all the brakes ?
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i still don’t understand why people put camrera’s sideways
@OMolokaiO These busses have individual brake lines for each wheel. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was the air valve in the engine that failed. I have no idea how accessible this is on these busses.
@dsouzand Why? What would that accomplish?
@crackerz99 The cost to do just the 7th Avenue corridor underground would dwarf the cost of the entire West line as a whole. Building it like the Skytrain (Vancouver) would continue to present problems, since the cost would be again astronomical, and the trains would still need their own right of way. I agree thatr it would alleviate problems like this though. I keep hoping that someday, they will finish the tunnel to move the trains underground (they already started it).
@Historymaker2001 underground? or +15.
@crackerz99 Where else could they have put the track?
@ThatJewfroGuy In the case of the this particular train, it wouldn’t have made a difference, since the broken down bus is straddling the southbound track (you can see it on the extreme right of the video, as well as the northbound track. By the end of the video, the pusher has managed to push the broken one off of the northbound track, but the southbound is still blocked.
@magicstorm1 This was downtown, can’t remember where exactly
@Padfoot8701 The only other solution would be to wait for a heavy duty crane to lift the bus onto a flatbed semi. That could have taken hours.
@benderman6 Well, no matter how much money you dump into anything, things WILL break down
@dsouzand And total the train and the bus? Not to mention the injuries that likely would have occurred aboard the train, as well as to passerbys? What about the resulting delays as they clean up the disaster? Sounds like a bad idea to me, since insurance wouldn’t pay out on the bus OR the train.
@BBQPeanut I like your idea. I wish I would have known when my big rig had seized brakes. I could have pushed it away by doing it in minus 30. Thanks
@Komear You’re the fucking idiot, because no tow truck in the world can tow a bus with air brakes on.
@rudtucker The brakes seized on the bus.
Air brakes or no, to my understanding you cut the lines (yes I KNOW this pushes them closed) and then attach a compressor to the line and open them, place the compressor/s on the bus, and tow the damned thing the 5 k to the depot by Stampede. I doubt the entire operation would have taken longer than 45 minutes. By the way, I’d gladly take such a job if one’s available….
@ggqbc – I guarantee you Calgary transit knew about this before the….uh…extraction method…hehe…began. There was no job risking, and the trains aren’t just going to blindly crash into things STUCK on tracks. They have radio’s, they just can’t dodge things that insist on playing chicken unexpectedly.
i like how one driver tried to help the other driver! he put his job on the line trying to help the other driver, that teamwork and the type of people you wantworking for your company! most workes would have been like ohh im not goning to help the guy lets just wait for a train to hit the bus and the driver to get fired even tho the fact the bus broke down is completely out of his control. its a class move
@benderman6 He’s the mayor, not a miracle worker.
How long was he pushing for?
I’m in Calgary to and the roads were horrible and icy