LYNX Prepares for Local Operator and Maintenance Roadeo

The Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX) bus operators, maintenance teams and paratransit operators will begin their quest to earn local, state and international recognition in the 2024 local Roadeo championship. The local competition will be held 10 a.m. March 2 at the LYNX Operations Center (LOC). The event is closed to the public.

Bus and ACCESS LYNX (paratransit) operators and maintenance teams will be put through physical and mental challenges testing their everyday workplace skills. Technicians will locate and troubleshoot planted defects on a bus, in an engine, in the A/C system and the air brake system. Operators also will identify defects in a bus and then drive through a challenging obstacle course while being timed and judged in safety habits.

LYNX will join winners from other Florida transit agencies at the Florida Triple Crown Bus Roadeo in Jacksonville, Fla., on April 19 and 20. This training exercise will be sponsored by the Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Public Transportation Association. 

The following week, the state champion bus maintenance and operator team and paratransit operator will head to Portland, Ore., for the American Public Transportation Association’s International Bus Roadeo.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

March 2
10 a.m.-noon
LYNX Operations Center
Building A (Maintenance)
Building B (Operators)
2500 LYNX Lane
Orlando, FL 32804
(Off Princeton Street near John Young Parkway.)

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For more information please contact Matt Friedman, Director of Marketing Communications, at 407-254-6206 or mfriedman@golynx.com.