Culver

Those ZF axles make all the difference, I guess.

I just found it odd that it seems to be in limbo for so long. I don't personally care; just that other buses seem to get delivered and then listed at some depot and this one for some reason is different.

So is 4899 going to enter service some time this decade? It spent two months being delivered, got to NYC a month ago and is now...somewhere?

AM: Brooklyn->SI Afternoon: SI->Manhattan PM: Manhattan->Brooklyn My commutes vary occasionally.

This went over my head for some reason. Yes, rotary lifts. For lifting buses. What is interesting? It should be cheaper with no installation, I get that. Is it supposed to signify something else, too? (Serious question. And I predict I'll look quite the fool once I get the answer.)

Yup. I noticed a few minutes later that the behind the one I was on was a shiny X3-45. Still never been on one of those.

Took the X1 today, got 2289. Excellent ride quality. The Cummins ISL9 is more than good enough to get that thing going, too. Got an old MCI D4500 on the going home; didn't bother looking at the number. It was rattly. That is all.

Only the most ignorant of the sheep expect C/R's to be omniscient. These are the same people who complain that the sucks when construction work goes on to improve service. That being said, the stuff I've seen on the from conductors goes beyond "we're human." I posted it a while back, but some of those C/R's seemed to have no clue what they were doing at all in terms of the R160 programs. I won't tangent off, but that post is in this thread somewhere.

That was just the R46 side LED displays doing their thing. Neither Jamaica nor Pitkin seem to be able to fix the issues, or don't want to.

The other day, saw an XD40 on the B6 LTD with the rear emergency power disconnect flap taped over with grey duct tape. Good enough. At least dumbass vandals on skateboards won't be able to get to em (unless they wanna stand there pealing off the tape).

Brings me memories of that trip in a Yukon Orion V (don't remember number) where I sat on the right side in the middle of the bus and looked up to see the middle roof clearance light dangling in the wind the whole way.

Yukon's no better. The NG's on the S79 SBS are all filthy, and some have graffiti inside.

Did it start as a train or was it a re-routed ? I was on a rerouted R160 about a year ago, where the conductor changed it to programming at B'way-Lafayette since the train got rerouted due to a problem on the Culver.

Almost halfway done. Nice. The remaining Flatbush 53xx units have all been built/finishing up and are just waiting delivery, right?

No community service, hands crushed with a mallet straight up. I have zero tolerance for that shit.

^Shit like this is why I say New Yorkers don't deserve any kind of transit system.

stopped at Utica at all times but the local stops only on nights to cover the which didn't run at that time?

Oh alright then. Thanks for the clarification.

Wait, why was that response to me? I acknowledge that the is part of the in my post there. ???

Are we expected to read that manifesto of a post on the mutated Q70 proposal? This is like when the guy in the NICE forums was obsessed with NICE creating a 20-year-old technology fare card for themselves in 2013 (and for the to accept it, too; hilarious) and kept hammering away. Holy crap I'm dropping this. Obsessed people (under the voting age, too, far as I can tell) will continue to obsess no matter how many times you explain to them how their ideas make absolutely no sense and are not physically, logistically and/or financially feasible/sensible. I mean, when I was a middle school kid I also thought up batshit routes like that, but at a certain point you gotta learn about the real world and how some things just don't make sense.

If you're referring to community meetings, the people you interact with at these community meetings are mostly imbeciles who know nothing about transit beyond "MTA SUCKS." Yes, there are transit-knowledgeable people that go to them. But, there are also many "I WANT FREE BUSES" idiots whose input is the exact opposite of useful. Also, you really need to stop making all your routes FOAMy cover-half-the-city regional routes. You have to start taking into account things like traffic, ridership, cost, and travel time when thinking up routes. Otherwise, the rest of us just end up looking at them and thinking "what in the name of holy shit is this." I mean, you can't just say "well this route will go from LGA to Downtown Brooklyn because I said so." OK, well who will realistically want to get on this route? Can you actually get enough passengers on it? And how do, considering the delays even the proposed Q70 already faces with using the BQE and GCP, you navigate the Greenpoint Brooklyn/Queens border without turning it into a joke?* These are the questions that disassemble this route when looked at from a realistic, logical standpoint. *Answer: You can't.

Probably. The biggest problem with running the down there is the J/Z thing. Can't run only trains there since technically some of those will be on the way back. As is, it very likely isn't happening.

They might eventually do a to 9 Av on the West End, though, right? At least I remember lurking on SubChat and some posters there bringing the idea up.

OK, map this out so we can at least see. Your description makes it sound like a bus line with a handful of stops covering half of Brooklyn and Queens.

My argument is that you're needlessly extending a route for literally no reason. You're making a foamer highway bus route, man. It doesn't matter how little stops there are, the length creates more opportunities for delays. Highways, especially in NYC, aren't exactly invulnerable to traffic jams. Local service roads are then subject to stop lights anyways. Seriously, I don't get this infatuation with 15-mile long regional routes that in the end serve nobody. Just because you "connect" it to the and and , doesn't mean people will want to get on this bus and schlep up Brooklyn, over Kosciuszko Bridge traffic, through Queens Plaza area traffic, then to Roosevelt/LIRR and then onto the highway. A faster alternative is to stay on the subway, and get to either Woodside or Roosevelt and take this currently planned Q70 LTD straight to LGA.