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http://www.ttmg.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=New_York_MTA_Bus_Operations_Depot_Roster Nice new design btw. And what's up with 6329 at MHV????

Been on the Q22 and Q35 a few times too. Rode it on the 35 earlier this week.

Some of the MTAs oldest MCIs on Staten Island sound pretty shitty too. Not really noticing that at Howell, Academy though definitely has some MCIs making weird noises. Not seeing them falling apart yet either, hell even those old MCIs at the MTA are in OK shape.

I saw one in Atlantic City the other week. Gotta put my vids up from then, damn...

They come down, hell a lot of those runs don't go out with state buses though they're usually just MCIs. But I even saw a Setra once, and they've been sending down the Atlantic Express Vanhools pretty often too.

Rode 3563 for the first time today on the Q35, to be honest it still sounds kinda like a hybrid at least with the AC on. I even heard a few little high pitch/squeaky noises that sound just like hybrids.

Howell uses the lot by the Javits. Seen NABIs there too so it's not only theirs.

They have been out lately though... even in Brooklyn

I remember when LI Bus brought theirs out...

It's never just 1 depot. And usually they try to keep everything 100% under NYCT when it comes to subway shuttles but lately MTA Bus (CP & LGA in particular) have been doing shuttle jobs. CP & LGA could very well make it out there.

They have DesignLines up til 7214, so it would start at 7215.

Looks a little weird...but approved! (beats those DLs)

Good move. A lot of the flipdots on the NJT MCIs started to crap out after the Clever Devices got put in.

Probably just temporary moves for the LIRR shuttles, once the strike is over I would imagine Yukon gets everything back.

They got D60s, MCIs, RTSes, Beeline O5s in storage and they take from Yukon's active fleet that it (really) needs. Unless they're prepping storage buses to come back out later this week and those Yukon buses are extras, let's wait and see.

Sounds like the shuttles are gonna be coming out of LGA and BP. Not surprised they didn't give them MCIs from storage for it, especially since a good bunch of them will be school buses that don't even have AC... Would have been better off taking RTS out of storage. Those hybrids could crap out on the highway (good thing is they won't be going that fast at least as they get closer to the city) and can't handle the crowds as good as a high floor.

Not a route proposal...BUT Swap depots between College Point and Casey Stengel. What I mean is...let the CS staff and routes move into the CP building, and let CP's staff routes and MCIs move into the CS building. It's basically known now that the MTA wants CP to be mostly or all express which puts the CNG system that NYCDOT, QSC and the MTA invested in at CP to waste, but CS is 100% local and they could keep putting the CP CNG system and buses to work for years while CP as it is now is gonna need less and less CNG, since they're supposed to get the QM24/25 while all the local routes except the ones actually going to College Point and Whitestone (maybe the Q66 too, that's gonna be a mess for LGA to handle at least on its own) get moved to LGA. Just an idea...

Some did

They're still around but they don't have the Clever Devices so they're not online. The 95 basically only uses them though.

Spotted 2 142As on the southern tonight.

Coming home earlier on the I saw an R142 or R142A set between 181st and 191st. Didn't see if there passengers, couldn't see the sign that great either.

That hybrid order never got actually awarded/placed IIRC.

5149 at Grand Av on the Q59

M15 runs D60s. And further up by City Hall you can check out the M103 if you're downtown.

Not all of tthem, still plenty of runs show up off the map and without Clever Devices, but lately they've been trying not to do that. It's basically all the late 8500s from the 8560s to 8590s that have them. What's weird is they have them but inside the announcements are audio only, they didn't put a LED sign up front, guessing cause the Academy units didn't have them already there since they have no Wayfarer and they didn't feel like installing new ones. Speaking of Academy, I think I saw them doing a 130 or 139 run in the PM rush, haven't seen them off the 136 in the PM for a while. I had 7214 for my ride yesterday though, holy shit that was an uncomfortable seat (back row was full by the time I got on smh) but dammmn that bus hauled ass. I would say better than the MTA reject 7100s even.