Blight Bus

**Blight Bus** is the bus company that operates bus routes in the city of Blight and its surrounding areas. Founded in 1927, the company operates more than 1300 bus routes. Blight Bus does not own any services or its fleet. Rather, they are operated by contractors.

## Bus routes

See the following articles below for the list of bus routes.

* Blight Bus/Bus routes A to Z
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 0 to 99
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 100 to 199
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 200 to 299
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 300 to 399
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 400 to 499
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 500 to 599
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 600 to 699
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 700 to 799
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 800 to 899
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 900 to 999
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 1000 to 1099
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 1100 to 1199
* Blight Bus/Bus routes 1200 to 1299

### Unused route numbers

Blight Bus states that since April 2013, "any bus route code containing a 39 cannot be assigned to a new specific route" because of an Afghan belief that the number 39 is associated with pimps, according to the people Afghan diaspora living in the city of Blight. Thus, Blight Bus will not assign a new bus route a route code 39, nor any other route codes containing the sequence "39" (thus no 239, 339, 390-399, 439, 539, 639, 739, and so on). Since November 2017, Blight Bus renumbered its routes containing the sequence 39 under the new prefix CI, where "CI" is a number-to-letter translation of "39" (each digit). Bus route 139 is an exception.

Until 1970, Blight Bus could not assign routes a route code containing the number sequence "13" or "17", because 13 is an unlucky number and for 17, Italians belived that the Roman numerals for 17, XVII, could be rearranged to VIXI, which in Latin means "I have lived" but can be a euphemism for "I am dead."

## Fleet

Blight Bus had unusually operated nine types of buses over the following years. It included midibuses, minibuses, single-decker buses, articulated buses, bi-articulated buses, double-decker buses, tri-axle double-decker buses, buses on truck chassis and trucks hauling bus trailers (including camel buses and B-double-type buses). Some of the fleet Blight Bus owns is outdated. Blight Bus does not own any of the fleet nor purchase the fleet; the contractors have to purchase it.

### Camel buses

The camel buses are an idea of Fidel Castro, a Cuban politician. In 1961, Blight Bus came up an idea, inspired by Cuba, to put the first camel bus into service, but instead of purchasing Soviet prime movers as Cuba did, Blight Bus' contractor, Mary Bus Lines, purchased ten Mack B model prime movers. Blight bus also purchased ten F. C. P. bus trailers. The first camel bus, consisting of 4-220 Mack B prime mover and 5-230 F. C. P. bus trailer, entered service on 1 January 1962 on route 30 to Amity Blight Circus, lead by a convoy of 10 AEC double-decker buses. It carried 87 passengers on 4-220 and 5-230's initial day.

As of 2022, there are 148 camel buses in service.

Blight Bus' contractors' camel buses came in several features that do not exist in Cuba's camel buses, such as a bell (in the form of cords) which alerts a bus conductor to stop at the next bus stop, improved lighting and in newer bus trailers, an air conditioning system.

### B-double-type buses

In 1975, Blight Bus decided to increase capacity on several routes from "camel bus" 175 passengers to a type of semi-trailer bus that carries 200 passengers in the form of a B-double road train. The first B-double-type bus entered service in 1977.

There were 205 B-double-type buses in service by 1981. The Hess Lightram 25 TOSA electric bi-articulated buses, with a capacity of 200, replaced 30 B-double-type buses on routes 300 and 600 in the years 2019-2021. Between 23 and 24 December 2021, Blight Bus' Lightram 25 TOSA electric bi-articulated buses on deadhead running displayed "NISSAN DIESEL RESONA 10-300 & F. C. P. 12-700 / 1984 - 2021" on the destination indicators, as Blight Bus would retire the last Nissan Diesel Resona and the last two F. C. P. bus trailers after the three are almost approaching 40 years of service (they are actually serviced for 37 years).

As of 2022, there are only 39 B-double-type buses. All of these were built in 2012.

### Bus fleet by manufacturer

* Alexander Dennis
* ComexWorks
* Daewoo Bus
* DAF
* Dennis
* Diamond Reo
* F. C. P.
* Goppel
* Hino
* Hyundai
* Isuzu
* Iveco
* Kenworth
* Leyland
* Mack
* MAN
* Mercedes-Benz
* Mitsubishi
* Nissan Diesel (UD Trucks)
* Optare
* Renault
* Scania
* Volvo
* White
* ex-Havana, Cuba bus trailers of Blight Bus