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It's been a minute forums but driving past LGA Airport lately I notice it looks like the PANYNJ has brought back some of the 1991 New Flyer D40LFs they use to run, I guess while all the construction goes on. They are in the current Port scheme and a few look like they got new Twinvision signs. Port painted them in the current scheme before retirement, I don't know if they were put in storage and now taken out or if Port got back some of the buses they sold to Golden Touch for the JFK employee shuttles? Golden Touch is not the contractor running them unless things have changed. Or are these newly purchased D40s?? They did look like the 91s on the outside and the inside that I could see, one of em had no signs at all. These buses have 6V92TAs and that would be something to see back on the road, at least outside JFK...

Nails huh Maybe you should get hit by one... You got it good with transit and we all do here in NY so enjoy the ride or GET A CAR

NYS PL 190.25 A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when he: 3. Pretends to be a public servant, or wears or displays without authority any uniform, badge, insignia or facsimile thereof by which such public servant is lawfully distinguished, or falsely expresses by his words or actions that he is a public servant or is acting with approval or authority of a public agency or department; and so acts with intent to induce another to submit to such pretended official authority, to solicit funds or to otherwise cause another to act in reliance upon that pretense. Saying this as someone whos been through the bs police and court system in Nassau (I thought the city was bad) you should probably just stop pretending you're someone you're not and get a job already.

Explains why I saw schools closed out here. Im sure most/all of them drive

Having TWC I get free access to the Boingo hotspot which is a bit faster. I don't think TWC is in NJ at all though so probably won't help for most people coming through.

The MyTix app just got updated as a general transit app. Now also has Departurevision and Mybus (no real time though) and a couple other things.

Or MTABus...

Really dig the new seats on the newer CNGs.

Only the RTS Hybrids were still there last I passed by. Speaking of the RTS have they found anyone to buy some of them? Not just the hybrids but the Novas in general

NJT too. They used to be a lot more annoying but they made it shorter cutting out the spanish part.

Are they allowing ops to take transit buses out on express runs if necessary now? Seems to be happening too much lately

MTABus seems like a good dumping ground the TA would send those to. Oddball buses we'll never see more of again.

Some group said Nova is getting the largest option order and they're gonna start in the 7800s and build up to 87xx. It seems like the TA finds the NF to be a better product so far and is inclined to order more from them which is why I was surprised to hear that.

I heard that Nova was just given the biggest option? Thought NF was considered the "better" and is gonna be given all the options...

It begins... say goodbye to the 102s

I know the unions agreed to moving the Q53 to FR or whatever, but I don't know if they'd be with that kinda split. Both the 52 and 53 SBS out of JFK/FR makes more sense anyways.

I'm honestly shocked but happy EPV didn't get it. NJT was involved in the design of the EcoCoach... guess EPV wasn't ready yet.

Where the hell is the real time tracking? Afaik every bus now has the new Clever Devices unless the Foothills still don't, really don't get why they haven't just turned on the customer tracking yet. What I usually see from I guess the more experienced guys who know the rules if they'll wait for the door to open and run out and not let the op see they're trying to get off before he stops. Sometimes they'll have their friends stop the bus for them just so they can get off. NICE has gotten much stricter with the closed door and I think people are starting to get it... 1 time the op wouldn't let someone out at Bell so he started pushing the back door so the interlock wouldn't let the bus move and then he just turned the back door on and let him out. With the Clever Devices theres also passenger counters at each door and I'm pretty sure they can tell the dispatchers who's getting on and off where, so the drivers probably have no choice now but to be more strict.

Not the point. Its a BIG increase for people who already pay a lot especially if they live far from the city. I kinda feel where they're coming from. At the same time they choose to live far from the city and should expect to pay a lot...

Little weird looking but I guess the only way they could finally find a replacement for the blue lights.

So now with the M86 SBS coming why not move the 15 Select to Tuskegee Airmen and the 15 local to MCH? The 86 and 15 would share fleets and MCH would have more normal artics for the M35.

Will you STFU about how they're "not using the subway" in those places? More people using the than the express bus in Howard Beach I can tell you that for sure. More people on the QM15 seem to get off along Woodhaven in the places away from the trains. Not everyone is a paranoid racist snob afraid of public transportation.

Cell service at Fulton is finally on today...

Most of the expresses I been on lately shut the lights on the highway but turn them back on when they get off. NJ Transit and the PBLs in NJ all do the same thing, lights off on the highway and on when they're making stops

They have some 1200s at TU for the 86 too