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It doesn't. I was just responding to his post.

S99 was supposed to be a Victory Blvd LTD or something (Google is your friend), and the S83 was supposed to be an S53 limited that went down Narrows Rd instead of through South Beach and went to Port Richmond with the S53.

Well you can just take the wraps off the bus and accomplish that. It's LTD in service, SBS in name.

I hadn't considered this. Good point. Maybe they (MAE and then later MTA) were thinking of not having people need to drive or something. To me, personally, driving to get to an express bus in Brooklyn (where parking is a bitch and a half) seems rather silly. I understand that people do that, but driving from northern Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst down to Cropsey, and then looking for parking can't be a good plan.

Well, the S83 LTD and S99 were studied. Just need politicians to put pressure on them to implement the routes.

I wouldn't say so. Not like Cropsey and Bay Ridge Ave are within a sane walking distance of each other. I get the short portion of the 28/38 on 86 St, but they get pretty well separated at 14 Ave. Running the 65 St route would make even less sense since the train is right there. And again, just trying to make lemonade out of this lemon. Apparently was thinking of bringing back the MAE routes before the 2010 cuts, so blame them.

Like I said, not that serious of an idea. Just wondering how one could run said MAE route.

Thanks for clarifying. My mistake.

No, I get that, I just assumed the regen systems referred to on the hybrids were specifically electric regenerative breaking to charge the hybrid system batteries.

The OG and NGs are diesel-electric hybrids, hence the regen. Why would the LFSAs have regen switches? Those are straight diesels.

DISCLAIMER inb4 flame: Not to serious of a route, but wanted to throw this out there. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=202807188220210378870.0004d9184bde7b6636fc8&msa=0&ll=40.679213,-74.001728&spn=0.314001,0.617294 Basically I looked at the old Metro Apple Express routes back in the day, and noticed that both SubChat and here threads mentioned the was looking at maybe bringing back some of their routes in some form before the 2010 service cuts had to be done. So this is what I did. Not really my idea, I just stuck the Manhattan-Bay Ridge routing to the Metro Apple Express BM15 and cut it off at 86 St and Ave U.

They still need them until the remaining new C40LFs come in and MCH opens to take a few routes from WF. Once all that happens, they won't need the 20-30 spare old C40LFs and/or Orion V CNGs and they can be retired.

Well since WF is apparently supposed to lose a route or two to MCH, the spare 30 or so old CNG buses (Orion or NFI) throughout the system would then not be needed by the end of the year after a handful of roster moves. Or so it seems, based on posts on here by many people. Makes sense, since there's no point buying more buses for routes that won't need CNG buses; just let the extra spares retire.

Had the chance to take the today. Those new C40LFs cruise at speed rather well; I was surprised. They get up to speed very well, and coast at speed for a while with that transmission.

He's been going on about that since the Q70 LTD was announced by the .

This is why we can't have nice things. Ugh.

I'll be fine, the sheep and touristas aren't fine. The isn't being used anyways. We're talking about a train line that has two main terminals on its south end that are miles apart, with one of them being serviced by a shuttle overnight.

I'd wager a guess on bus heaven due to the saltwater damage.

They really should just keep the Rockaways as the and rename the Lefferts to once the Rockaways line reopens. Since the Lefferts runs are a shuttle overnight anyways, it's an easy distinction. If you want JFK, take the , Lefferts take the .

Based on the roster posted, looks like 15 Van Hools for the X23 and X24.

EDIT: Fail. Stepped away and didn't realize new posts answered. Mods, delete this post?

That's a tiny depot. I'm guessing that's a small one just for the X23/X24 then. Well there's the Bus depot location they'd need. On a related note, anybody ever been one one of those Van Hool coaches they use? I'm wondering if they'll be bidding (they got a week left!) on the express bus contract.

I've only seen the Van Hools on the X24 when in SI. I assume it's the same thing for the X23.

Well scratch my theory. Guess the depots in SI just don't have the capacity.

Random Thought: I was thinking of why NYCDOT doesn't hand over X23 and X24 to Bus. Realized it was because there's no Bus depot to use in Staten Island. And maybe some union differences with Bus Co/NYCTA and SI being a separate union.