New Flyer D40LF is the first low floor accessible bus made in North America.

In 1990-91 with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), many transit operators began the transition from high floor to low floor coaches. ADA provided for a number of initiatives to give the disabled more mobility and easier access. 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.

Since the early 1980s, transport operators had experimented with various systems (mainly wheelchair lifts), as proponents for the disabled lobbied operators and political officials for more access. While operators desired to provide more transportation options for the disabled, the systems themselves proved troublesome; they would routinely break, and were very slow, significantly increasing stop times.

The solution to this problem came from Europe, which since the 1970s had essentially forged ahead of the US in introducing public transportation innovations. This solution was the Low Floor System (LFS) bus. The Low Floor bus had no step upon entry, so wheel chair ramps, which were much less expensive, more reliable, and offered quicker loading/unloading, could be paired with wider doors to meet all ADA requirements.

The first LFS bus in North America was the New Flyer D40LF. The D40LF was developed from the European model B85 series bus built by Den Oudsten Bussen BV, New Flyer’s then parent company based in the Netherlands.

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Description:


Scale: 1.5:1

Manufacturer: New Flyer Industries

Model: D40 LF

Length: 18 blocks

Height: 5-1/2 blocks, 6 blocks for CNG powered variant

Width: 4 blocks

Build time: 30 min lol

This project is built to the dimensions provided by this spec sheet, scaled up to 1.5:1.



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