Turbo19

In other news, beer.

You're buying.

Hmmm....

 

No. Detroit for life, mofo.

Comparing a high floor bus to a low floor bus is orange and apples buddy. Especially if the high floor bus is diesel versus the low floor CNGs you have in your area. They both differ in every aspect including performance, ride quality, and build quality. I personally don't know which model of bus rides better, since I don't drive buses or maintain them.

To paraphrase my initial sentiments, I don't have time for this crap, nor do I want to continue to lament on this issue.

The point is my back still hurts like a mofo and nothing changes that.

If you're not able too, you might as well find other ways to commute. Everyone got use to MTA's fleet being mostly RTS.

The key difference however is that the RTS has a better ride quality by far.

An average Gillig Advantage or Advantage BRT has a lackluster ride quality, as it's chassis and suspension is low grade. As such Gillig uses a larger than usual tire in a poor attempt to compensate for what the suspension is missing, to no avail.

And these are CNG buses I am riding, which only worsen the impact as the weight makes the weight distribution uneven. I could go on, but I'll cease my rant here.

I've dealt with Gilligs since 1995, including Airport buses. It's not as bad as you think. You're not use to it yet.

That doesn't sound well at all. I shouldn't have to "get used to" any transit vehicle, and in fact it won't happen as it is impossible. As much as it sucks I'm forced to tolerate it for the next decade or so.

Six months of only Gillig's and I already have lumbar related strain. I wish I could say I was being sarcastic but sadly I'm not.

Hey, maybe we can get the Dodgers back in the five boroughs then.

They're ours now.

And yet when the situation is flipped time is of the essence.

Life's contradictions.

Operators get too comfortable with those flat duals. In that condition the buses should be taken back to the depot while they are still semi operational.

hush child. Guess who I saw on my way to the city yesterday.

I would not know.

Please do go on.

Lmfaooo stfu

Sure you're mad now, but that won't stop your "other side" from showing.

We all know about it. No shame in it.

Ehh just my opinion. But if you really love those 142A's so much I'll arrange for someone who'll marry you to metal.

If you conversed with Screechy in greater detail you'd find out he would not be one to stray from such a proposal. In fact that would be tame under his definitions.

I don't know where the stigma of Station agents being cruel jackasses came from. Idk if it's my extremely sexy face or my beastly voice but every SA i've encountered treated me nice. Transit workers in general are just nice people.

The entire B division has nothing on the A division foh with that ucking garbage.

You are quite the conceited individual as of late. It must be all the attention your "life partner via New York State Civil Union" is giving you.

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/18/subway_etiquette_the_leaner.php

I like good news here and there, so I'll post this.

 

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/florida-police-ticket-2-old-girl-driving-white-174759085--abc-news-topstories.html

 

https://news.yahoo.com/big-beautiful-pictures-4-recently-190454833.html

Depends on your definition of good then.

Personally I'm not changing my views on PD. As for other life harboring planets, I'm sure there's a bunch of legal red tape to go through before anyone could do anything with that info.

This is what happens when service isn't improved.

http://blog.tstc.org/2014/03/10/annual-transit-ridership-grows-but-not-on-long-island/

What's cruel about the entire situation is that most readers in both Nassau and Suffolk counties would not feign any interest in regard to the situation, and those that did would likely view it in monotone demeanor.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know the length of the wheelchair lifts of the Orion Vs when deployed? How much room on the street would one of these need to fold out? 

More info on the Lift-U Solid Platform Lift, a common lift on accessible Orion V's: http://www.lift-u.com/products/liftsramps-for-transit/solidplatformlift-lu10/

They need to bring CNG's back onto Express Routes

Right...

Yeah, this removes all doubt.

Simply reinstate a variant of local service back on the S79. It sucks that the only access to the bypassed stops is to transfer to the S78 along Hylan.

Most railfans refer the  as the red rocket.

For all the wrong reasons...

A subway restroom map of interest: http://gothamist.com/2014/02/25/nyc_subway_bathroom_map.php

I also saw a homeless guy on the beg someone for a cigarette. Someone gave one to him. The homeless guy then just hung out smoking between cars while we were on the express run on Lexington. Ridiculous. Anyone who has taken the would know that the trains can hit 45mph+ on the express.

Well he could have simply lit up in the car.

They should be hitting the first

If that happens then we will have numerous cases of mistaken identity, rofl.

^{City officials said that starting Monday, they will begin removing homeless people from the E train.}

QUEENS — The NYPD and the MTA plan to clear homeless men and women out of the subway system after a skyrocketing number of people have sought shelter there from the brutally cold winter, police officials said.

The plan, which is set to begin before dawn on Monday, comes amid an upswing in homeless people in the subway system during the exceptionally cold winter. There were more than 1,800 people living on the subways in 2013, up from 1,000 in 2009, according to the city's annual HopeNYC street survey.

Starting Monday at 3 a.m., teams of transit workers, NYPD officers and emergency medical technicians will go to the E train stations at Jamaica Center and at the World Trade Center, officials said.

Each time a train pulls into one of the two stations, teams will check each car, and take all the homeless people inside to either a shelter or hospitals, officials said.

The trains will then be cleaned for the morning rush hour.

"We are not doing this to be cruel to them," Christie Hofmann, a New York City Transit official, said at a Wednesday night meeting. "[Homelessness] is not going to get solved overnight, but we are working on it together with police officers."

The initiative was partly launched to help improve conditions for other riders, officials said. The operation will begin on the E line, where the problem is most visible, and will later move to other subway lines throughout the city, officials said.

“It’s going to be a really comprehensive effort to alleviate the homeless condition that we have,” said Deputy Inspector Michael Telfer, who oversees Transit District 20, which covers part of Queens.

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For a concept it isn't bad. Seems to border between the standard and WFD RTS models.