The Milwaukee County Transit System’s (MCTS) Fleet Maintenance Building will open its doors to the public on Sept. 19, as part of Doors Open Milwaukee. MCTS will also have a new bus on display for people to tour. The New Flyer Xcelsior buses just arrived this month and haven’t even hit the streets yet.
There is a lot to maintaining MCTS’s fleet of 11 ton vehicles. Learn how it is done by visiting the Fleet Maintenance Building. Very rarely does MCTS provide tours, but this is an opportunity to see where mechanics repair or replace major bus components like engines, transmissions, air-conditioning and brakes. There will also be tours of the Body Repair Shop, where mechanics repair the outside of the bus, and learn how they paint buses in large space-age-looking spray booths.
This will also be the first chance for the general public to tour one of our 28 new buses. The buses were built this summer at the New Flyer plant in Alabama and have been arriving in Milwaukee over the past month. MCTS mechanics are doing some final installation and testing before the buses go into service.
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