With regards to public transportation, it required operators to ensure all new equipment was fully accessible by the physically challenged, to include vehicle ramps or wheelchair lifts. ADA provided for a number of initiatives to give the disabled more mobility and easier access.
My non-expert opinion would say the next period begins in 1990-91 with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the transition from high floor to low floor coaches.
So we have Pre-war, Post-war, New Look and ADB…what era comes next? Things became less clear with the Advanced Design Bus or “ADB” era (1977 – 1991), which in contrast to earlier periods, lacked one overall dominant model, and with several of the more popular coaches suffering significant early “teething” problems. GM easily transitioned from the Old Look to the “ New Look” period (1959 – 1977) and again dominated the market with a superior product. Next came the Post-war era (1945 – 1959) where rail was superseded by the diesel coach, primarily the legendary GM Old Look. A broad variety of manufacturers built buses during this period. What were these eras? Well, transit historians generally identify four…įirst is the Pre-war period (prior to 1945), where motor coaches played mostly a secondary or complimentary role to trolleys and other rail systems.
In previous articles, we’ve taken a somewhat convoluted trip through some of the “loosely identified” eras of transit coach operations in the US.
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