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There's a big list of them getting indicted. Hurray for anything good ever happening in NY.

See, this is where you lose us...holy extending routes, batman. The X28 starts making stops all the way at 86 St and Dahlgren and you want to drag it all the way to Ave X in Sheepshead Bay?

Holy crap, you're college-aged? You got some growing up to do. As for maps, any map, really. I mean, we can't truly give a fair judgment of your fantastic ideas until we see some maps to help us visualize. We'd need to see the exact route you're proposing here to truly understand. Otherwise, how can we possibly give an objective opinion? True genius cannot be understood with mere words.

Language, young man. We're all still waiting for your grand regional bus route super map, along with ridership demographics. Look, traffic on the WSE is a bitch, you don't wanna send a local bus down there for the sake of doing it.

Right, but this is a) America and b) New York. Good luck getting politicians here to provide the funds. Until the incompetent clowns in Albany prove otherwise (they're a little busy right now, getting arrested for fraud and all), I'll remain a skeptical.

I'm well aware they've looked into the issue. Costs will still be high, when considering the amount of stations, and the many stations with curves both horizontal and/or vertical. I don't think I've ever said I'm against this. Rather lost on what you're trying to prove to me. I've repeatedly said they should do something and they've made it clear they're looking at it (for example detection systems). My only point is finding the billions of dollars they'll inevitably need for it. Prince Cuomo's budget accidentally giving them $40 million extra won't cover it. I don't really get your point here. I'm all for the solutions, as is the , just need to find the billions of dollars they'll need.

I have compassion, of course I want the problem fixed. I'm just at a loss as to where you want the money to come from. I'd love for the to fix the issue, as we all know how to fix it. However, unless we find the money for it, this all means precisely dick. Yes, they'll study it and find the cheapest solution because Albany likes to talk and use the as the redheaded stepchild that gets criticized literally regardless of what it does. You can keep telling me it's bad, and I'll agree. Doesn't change the fact that the money isn't there for the solution.

So even though the numbers have in fact been steady, they're still supposed to be increasing? Look, if you have the spare dozen billion dollars, call up the . Otherwise, this entire discussion is a waste of everyone's time. A good way to reduce suicides is reduce unemployment, maybe not have banks destroy people's life savings on derivatives gambling, and I dunno, not have millions go bankrupt due to medical bills; but that's off-topic. Point remains: either somebody produces the money or this is all moot.

Yes, they would have to be the glass walls with sliding doors that modern systems have. They're expensive and would cost even more money to install in our system than simple railings. Unless somebody has the billions to pay for them, this is all a waste of time that does nothing but give face time to politicians who don't actually care.

The same people the other highway-bound 10-mile-long limited routes to nowhere are supposed to benefit: imaginary riders who have nothing to do but sit and ride on buses on highways all day.

Seeing as how the amount of subway deaths is more or less level, no it isn't. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/01/7287731/latest-subway-suicide-prompts-council-hearing-its-nothing-new Regardless of how they got on the tracks, it's an issue that has come to light because the media needed some scary headlines and because the city politicians needed to make it look like they give a shit about the everyday people they see as peasants. Yes it needs to be tackled, but to really fix it would cost billions upon billions. Someone who wants to die won't mind climbing over a 4-5 foot barrier to jump, so simple barriers won't work for suicides.

No they're not. Statistically, number has been level for the past decade. More media attention does not = more incidents. Meanwhile, drivers are mowing down pedestrians in this city and nobody (NYPD doesn't even bother) gives a shit.

You got a few spare billion dollars?

Does the driving style even have to change? As I understood it, the LBSS system just tries to balance out gear shifts to keep performance uniform at higher loads and on hills.

I never look at numbers, sadly. I assumed it was a Jamaica Yard set.

Nice to see deliveries wrapping up. Now we get to wait 'till June to know who the next lucky companies will be.

Got an R160 on the this evening at 86 St.

So with 40 Artics, does FB have enough of them to fully cover the B44 local and limited runs during rush hour (considering the shuttle and all)?

What? Is Yukon going all LGA or something? Today: Got a chance to take the X28, finally got a Prevost. Excellent ride quality. I'm mixed on the seats. On one hand the old MCI coach seats are taller, on the other hand the back support just feels nicer on the smaller new seats. Still, wish seats were taller, and I am not a tall person at all.

Good enough answer for me. Their local buses are a disgusting mess on the inside. I hate taking the S79 SBS (mind you the speed of the route is excellent) because 3/4 of the time the seats in the back are all covered in dry gum and/or seemingly an entire emptied bag of chips and crumbs and/or something else I don't even know and/or trash.

Why they putting those O5s on the S79? Some wrapped NGs getting serviced?

Quick question for other members: so this whole BM10/BM15 thing, viable at all? As I mentioned a page ago, there were posts on here and on BusChat a while back about the considering the routes again before the 2010 cuts. Any reason why? Is there a market for those routes I'm not aware of?

Wait, what? WHY? Staten Island is full of express bus routes. Why would they add the cost of the bridge toll to ride the 27/27?

Isn't that one of the XD40s whose side skirts were all scratched up?

Yeah, some of them have those signs. Looks odd to see an actual legible display on those buses.