954 replies to this topic

[College Pt Man]

Where are they at sitting at CP out of service or at a center to be delivered to CP

[Burrstone]

If ur asking about the test buses spotted, I have no idea. If ur asking about the deliveries in general, I can tell you the buses are delivered from Minnesota by a 3rd party drive away company, the buses are delivered to another 3rd party contractor at JFK who gets the buses ready for delivery to the depots.

Edited by Burrstone, 30 March 2012 - 10:07 PM.

[College Pt Man]

Are they ever planning to repaint 230 with the front stripe.

[East New York]

About an hour ago, I saw either 296 or 298 as a training bus on Staten Island. It pulled up at Broadway and Forest avenue and made a right on Forest. Than my bus passed it. Any reason why that could be?

In Staten Island???? That doesn't even sound right....

Are they ever planning to repaint 230 with the front stripe.

Nope. I think 185 will remain stripeless as well, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Edited by East New York, 31 March 2012 - 11:14 PM.

[College Pt Man]

Yeah u might of meant Brooklyn because Staten Island doesn't even have a CNG depot.

[LTA1992]

Then why the hell was 986 signed up as TRAINING BUS in Staten island in the vicinity of Castleton Depot? That is confusing me to death. You can't confuse a C40LF with any other model on SI because you don't see it there.

Edited by LTA1992, 01 April 2012 - 03:00 PM.

[College Pt Man]

Any photo evidence?
But didn't castleton just get 90 new buses LFS XD40 and the Orion 3G .
Maybe it is just training different operators to get used to different types of buses.

[LTA1992]

Maybe. It was just odd seeing it over there.

[College Pt Man]

Oh well all I care about concerning this topic is I hope the 2nd batch of C40LF's get delivered tommorow. It's ashame how the MTA really screwed up the Orion's by not cleaning them. The seats look like they haven't been washed and lots of those buses have leaking water problems.

[Burrstone]

There was about 20 C40LF's sitting in a lot at JFK airport, and about 5 more come later that day!

[Burrstone]

Yesterday at JFK...

[College Pt Man]

Thank you for the heads up.

[RookiePhenom]

Those at JFK (that came in the last couple of days) I did see go down the Indiana Toll Road/Ohio Turnpike over the weekend. Not to mention a couple have been sighted outside of Chicago (staying at one of our lovely hotels).

Nonetheless, I am quite pleased and very excited that you guys are getting some fine buses in MTA livery. Cheers!

[Burrstone]

We have a fuel stop outside of Chicago.

[MHV9218]

Quite a line of buses there, genuinely surprising how fast the C40s come on in.

[QSC TMC 295]

Really interested in finding out where this New Flyer lot is in JFK...

[College Pt Man]

They look good i wonder why the MTA is stilling hesitating the deliver them to CP. I got mad when I got on 9932 it was in fair condition a couple of weeks ago. The bus is dirty the seats are messed up, the poles in the bus except the top are gone and today the AC barely blew out any air

[aemoreira81]

Really interested in finding out where this New Flyer lot is in JFK...

It is where the airport buses are stored.

BTW, why have these buses not been released for service?

Edited by aemoreira81, 14 April 2012 - 03:40 PM.

[mark1447]

There goes 277 tagged up...

[chrisliz09]

wow thats a first for me i havent seen any bus with anything like that for a long time thank god none of them in the bronx have any problems like that