Culver
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First of all, this did not turn out really well.
Kendell, please do your requests in YOUR thread and DO NOT post your signs in my thread. I do NOT want you taking requests in my thread considering that you cannot remember destinations and your signs are not accurate. If you don't have requests, you don't have requests. Just deal with it. Do not steal my work.
Back to signs:
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Enjoy!
Thanks a ton, R188. Great work as usual.
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Have you ever seen those guys? I laugh my ass off whenever the MTA puts a video up with them in it, if they're not hippies they're some serious nerds. IDC if they're hippies/nerds/whatever, but these guys know nothing about transit technology and work for a general open source consulting firm that found the open source bus tracking software (called NextBus or something like that) then hired Verifone to supply the equipment and install it into the buses. Whereas Clever Devices are transit technology EXPERTS with a proven track record of providing reliable AVL systems to transit agencies across North America. This is yet another example of the MTA being cheap, throwing money away on worthless garbage when it can be spent on much better, more useful things. If they wanted the Clever Devices system, which BTW is already installed on every new bus, it is the maintenance diagnostics system (I believe it also controls the random announcements and "please exit through the rear door") and it can be easily configured to include a BusTime-like system, automated announcements, and a bunch of other things, they could buy it.
=Money Thrown Away, that's all.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.
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What's KMZ
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.
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Thanks LOL. I will get better eventually.
Just make it in Google Earth then upload the KMZ to Maps.
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What lack of detail did I just view?
Bus stop shelters for airborne buses already being manufactured:
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View comments for street details google doesn't like to be straight I was on GPL sorry.
What in the name of...
Why is it going to Queens Village? That's a B84 that runs mostly in Queens.
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I was just informed that 3630 is back from a very long absence is now at the BP depot repainted etc. BTW, it is NOT converted to a diesel.....
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).
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Thanks a ton, R188.
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Doesn't work like that. You have to save the PDF and use Dropbox or Google Drive or something to store it.
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So? Nothing is perfect. Just because something is X years old, doesn't mean problems can be completely fixed. Not to mention that these things are in the toughest subway system on the planet. Most of these computers are running 24/7 while hitting bumps, curves, heat, cold, rain, sleet, snow. All kinds of environments. Parts are flexing and contracting. Shaken and stirred. I bet you if your computer went through that treatment, it'd be finished. Cut the tech some slack. At least it works and does what it's supposed to do.
Every machine is glitch prone. You can only do so much. But when you are going through everything I stated above, glitches can be more likely. So again, cut the tech some slack. Strip maps have glitches too. Aaaaand you gotta worry about lights going out as well.
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.
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This might be old, but Daimler has a build-your-own-Citaro thing on their UK site.
Have fun
Here's mine:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fe6eby0awy9wx5s/t3wC_WwYAj/Citaro.pdf
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Shiny! Though I still hate the straight-through black part at the back where it used to angle up.
Are those LED lights?
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That all depends on how the MTA requests the specs on those buses.
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.0 -
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
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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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New Flyer D60HF Articulated #5652 is now a Gun Hill bus. Saw it on the Bx22.
And here is something special that I found on the Q101 today!
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a lot of that can be caused by dead motors. I remember back when slants ran on the L the consist had 3 dead motors and the jerking was so bad, a TSS came on and dischsrged the train at Bway Jct. Your rides could have been from poor maintenance by Westchester Yard. Sent from my BlackBerry PlayBook using Tapatalk
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
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Here's the thread I was referring to, if anybody's interested.
Thanks! I was interested in the BxM4D route description.
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LOL. The
is my home line, and I am actually looking forward to the R188's. The R142A are my favorite NYC Subway cars behind the R160/R62A. It would be nice to hear that propulsion on the Flushing Line...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).0 -
I've gotta say, whenever I'm on one of the 160s, there never seems to be a problem with any of the electronics. Either I'm very lucky when it comes to this or these problems are being grossly exaggerated. Just saying.
With that said, it really doesn't make any sense to put FINDs on a train that will likely never leave its intended line.
I've never seen the bugs pop up on an
or 
, only the 
and 
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Why are you all pointing out extensively that a machine has glitches. IT'S A MACHINE! It's going to do that. You people act as if just because it's in a subway car, it's supposed to be glitch free.
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.
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That is messed up, they should of did the same like the R-160 instead of putting new stickers everytime when it's a recent change to a subway route!!
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.
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Guys we're not talking about transit, they would care about the issue of a multinational corperation stealing federal funds. Why would they care, and not look the other way for drop in the bucket of their campaign? Because being the one to bring this down is a huge notch in their career and a great bragging point at election time. Especially so if you can make it look like your opponent looked the way or was in bed with them?
Right, people who can pay off politicians don't go to prison, you better call up Bernie Madoof's attorney and tell him that one.
I never said that, I think I was very clear in my last post!
Bwhahahahahaahahahah!
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.
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Because all it would take to shut them up is a small political donation. We're talking state politicians here, it doesn't take $50,000 on the state level. Veolia is a private carrier and expects to turn a profit on their operations. An increase in state funding doesn't mean it will directly go towards tangible service improvements, whatever their PR says. I never said they would siphon money illegally. There will always be loopholes, whether in the law or the contract (those would be there intentionally) to allow them to make an extra buck. They didn't get the extra state funding (while the MTA had $20 million taken from them) for their good service and kind bus drivers.
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.
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=Money Thrown Away, that's all.
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. They're filthy inside and out, too.
is my home line, and I am actually looking forward to the R188's. The R142A are my favorite NYC Subway cars behind the R160/R62A. It would be nice to hear that propulsion on the Flushing Line...
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.
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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.