Do you notice anything unusual about the bus in this picture?

Photo taken with my cell phone camera at K Street and 17th, Wednesday evening.
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There’s nothing particularly weird about the fact that it’s an articulated (accordion) bus; WMATA has lots of those. What’s weird is that this is an old bus with a very new paint scheme.

It’s clear from the profile that this bus is from either 1995 or 2002 (the last times WMATA bought articulated buses without fancy-looking sloped fronts), but is painted using the scheme that wasn’t introduced until 2008. Presumably this bus must have been overhauled and repainted, but why go to the trouble of repainting the whole thing instead of just touching up the old job? After all, most of the other 1995 and 2002 buses still have the same old red stripes on white livery.

Anybody know the story?