I suspect that Lamers Bus Lines, Inc. (golamers.com) may be the most disproportionately photographed bus line in America by young Internet-savvy photographers.
These photographs, and many more, are taken from Flickr:
When it comes to the most insulting bus company, however, the unfortunate typography that rendered the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority buses dangerously close to “puta” may give Lamers a run for their money in Spanish speaking communities.
LOL this is a great post! lamers hahaha, i got the other one too (i am from mexico), great shots.
I liked the local buses in Brevard County, FL, known as Space Coast Area Transit… yep, SCAT.
I am also easily amused by the “K Line” trucks, such as this one…
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http://www.blissworld.com/category/brands/la+mer.do
If you want to pull down a bazillion photos from Flickr like this, use my script.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘net/flickr’
flickr = Net::Flickr.new(‘3157869c86ca1660c87107dcb3783cb6’)
flickr.photos.search(‘text’ => ‘lamers bus’ ).each{|photo|
puts photo.source_url(:large)
}
I had many crass names for the PVTA buses when I lived in the valley, but “puta” never actually crossed my mind… good call.
I don’t believe any currently active PVTA buses have that livery anymore…at least, it doesn’t look familiar to me. The newest buses use the slightly goofy purple-and-orange logotype. When is that picture from?
Evan: These were used when I was in the valley between 1999 and 2003. They moved to the new logo at some point between then and now.
http://www.fuecker-reisen.de/
Fucker bus!
I believe you meant “spanish and portuguese”.
I rode PVTA from 1988-2004. I remember that embarrassing livery. Unfortunately also due to a brain injury the color-coded stripes made riding the bus difficult so for a time I had to ride their [paratransit] vans (which also had that logo.) The flying bus spaceship thingy they had was cool but not the lettering