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Also, common on R160B Siemens propulsion trainsets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. God how I loathe those pieces of crap. Propulsion sounds nice, though.

Thanks a ton, R188. Great work as usual.

The word hippies is hilarious at this point. I mean, really, what do you define as hippies? They're just hipsters who are good with computers. I don't know what your personal thing against them is, but their fashion choices aren't really that insane in the year 2013. I do agree though that the MTA should've just used Clever Devices' stuff for BusTime.

The file you export from Earth. Drawing lines is easier in Google Earth. When you're done, right-click and Save As whatever you just did. It'll be saved as a KMZ file, which you can then import into Google Maps.

Just make it in Google Earth then upload the KMZ to Maps.

Bus stop shelters for airborne buses already being manufactured:

What in the name of... Why is it going to Queens Village? That's a B84 that runs mostly in Queens.

Have they decided on a newer engine? The contract copy I saw on Subchat says the test bus would be fitted with an EPA 2007-certified engine. Seems rather dated; might as well do a 2010-certified one (or 2013 if Cummins can get those available soon enough).

Thanks a ton, R188.

Doesn't work like that. You have to save the PDF and use Dropbox or Google Drive or something to store it.

Those subway cars are expensive and made by the best in the business. Six years and not having them fixed IS a problem. Besides, as I've mentioned before, these R160 problems never show up on the Coney Island sets. It's always the Jamaica E/F sets that have these issues; which makes me think it's a maintenance issue where the physical connections are damaged and not fixed. One glitch that I've also noticed on Jamaica sets that I've never encountered on a Coney Island set is when the train just straight up doesn't make an announcement when the doors open. In this glitch, the odometer/tachometer and train's systems are in proper sync (all other stations fine) and then at a couple of random stations there is no announcement when the doors open; and there is no *ding* sound like when a CR stops the announcement to explain the lack of automatic announcement.

This might be old, but Daimler has a build-your-own-Citaro thing on their UK site. http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/bus/home/new_buses/models/regular_service_busses/_citaro/konfigurator/designstudio.html Have fun Here's mine: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fe6eby0awy9wx5s/t3wC_WwYAj/Citaro.pdf

Shiny! Though I still hate the straight-through black part at the back where it used to angle up. Are those LED lights?

Not a lot of space to work with there. Based on this photo from TTMG (great stuff as usual), I'm guessing they might shoehorn an extra seat or two in there. http://ttmg.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Novabus_Nova_LFS-Interior.jpg They could do the layout in this photo, only have the first three rows (from camera's point of view) of transverse seats on the lower level be singles and have the last row be a double as is done on the lower level of the back portion in the XD60s. Add the solo seat in front of the front wheel on the door-side, and you add up to 34 seats; same as a C40LF. Also, I'd like for the to go with the white interior window frames and paneling. Not sure if that costs extra or something.

I'd like to make a Titan bus sign request if those are still taken. Thanks. B101 MIDWOOD KINGS HWY STA B101 VIA 65 ST VIA AVE P

Any ideas on how NovaBus will deal with the lack of seats on the lower part of the 40-foot bus? And the cramped spacing in general? The back seems fine with that new layout, but the placement of the wheels means you're kind of low on options for the front. They could do what they and NFI do on the artics (and what Euro buses have on all types) and put double front-facing seats on the front side of the front wheels. Not sure if the space is there, though. Definitely space for a single sideways seat.

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I'm going to go ahead and side with the bad maintenance idea. No other trains that I know of in the system ride as badly as the R142A's on the / . They're filthy inside and out, too.

Thanks! I was interested in the BxM4D route description.

I hope you like the hard bucking on acceleration and deceleration, too. I hated the days of taking the if only because those crapboxes jerk violently every damn time they move. Easily the worst of the NTTs. Even the R160B's with Siemens propulsion aren't as bad (all the flatspotted wheels are annoying to hear, but at least ride is smooth).

I've never seen the bugs pop up on an or , only the and . It's confusing to me, to be honest; a bug is a bug is a bug and would show up on all of them, not just the ones out of one yard.

Because it's been 6 years and these annoying bugs still haven't been fixed and are still common on the R160s (at least on the ones out of a certain yard in Queens). Because nothing says "job well done" like a modern, high-tech train pulling in with one window display off, one stuck on "LAST STOP" and one carriage having both ceiling displays out and one of three FIND boards stuck on a different subway route altogether.

These cars will stay on the 7. No need for FIND (which *still* has endless glitches years later) in subway cars that will run on one line and never be rerouted anywhere.

I should've specified: not the illegal money-under-the-table bribes, I'm referring to the legalized form of bribery known as political donations. And again, money allocated for transit is money Cuomo cares not for.

Again too late to edit... RE: Cuomo He probably literally could not care any less about transit than he already does. He's the last person to give two flips about a bus service somewhere.