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7 hours ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

Not for long, that bus is getting retired. You guys are getting all of the coach USA 21s to push the remaining 71s/9000s into retirement. 

Thank goodness. Was getting tired of having to go to the boneyard for scraps to start my morning trip 🙄

18 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

21294 to Meadowlands from Academy.

6472 (Ex Montgomery) active at Meadowlands.

7129-7130 from Meadowlands to Wayne.

Oh snap we got 7130???

On 8/9/2023 at 8:02 PM, Lawrence St said:

16003 got into an accident??? When??

On 8/10/2023 at 2:02 PM, 553 Bridgeton said:

I have pics but I cannot post them. It doesn’t look bad however major damage the rear frame of the bus. That bus looks to be a write off. 
 

22056(Fairview Bus) tracking on the 552, came from Ironbound yesterday evening. 

22053 is a Ironbound now…

A real shame.  I got to operate it when I was at Lakeland.  Little did I know it served as an omen as to future employment 

On 8/10/2023 at 2:02 PM, 553 Bridgeton said:

1 hour ago, JAzumah said:

Easton Coach operated the 890/891 routes in Phillipsburg for NJT.

Another Wheels op?

Checking out some of the vehicles used for NJT’s Access Link, they used to be operated by First Transit, now I’m seeing Transdev and more interestingly, Easton Coach

1 hour ago, checkmatechamp13 said:

Good question...in the past, the #199 used to skip some stops between the Main Line overpass and Page Avenue. But now that note is taken away, so it seems like the main difference is that during rush hours, the #199 serves the loop through Nutley, while the #192 runs straight across NJ-3. But off-peak, they should probably relabel all of those #199 trips to #192 trips.

Already done

8 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

 

Doesn't NJT give them buses free of charge? Wouldn't that count as the subsidy?

4 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Free buses does not cover insurance, fuel, etc.

And lord knows everything’s going up

Private companies are taking Ls lately….

19 hours ago, xD4nn said:

How you gonna say it exists when it doesn't exist anywhere on paper. The only thing mentioning Hudson Line to Penn is some troll map from a satire news article.

Now that’s disappointing.  That it even made it to publication for all the world to see is disgusting 

On 8/26/2023 at 12:49 AM, Lawrence St said:

But it is. How you gonna tell me and I work here 😂

Oh this is news to me.  Get with me offline please 😁

4 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

Not the entire network, no....

I'd say NJT's attempting to go about their redesigns the right way though; it's best to analyze the network from major regions & try to build up the network that way.... North Jersey's separate interstate & intrastate networks alone are too extensive for a clean slate approach - even if you wanted to do away with having separate networks for each (which would be the cheap [and stupid] way to go about it)....

Generally speaking, the #76 is one of the more straighter routes NJT has.... My critique about the #76 (if anything) is that is has too many variants....

As far as indirectness within its network, it's nothing like these 2 examples:

 

____________________(The NJT #452)____________________________________________(The NJT #5)

That 452 looks like a special kind of…something…

3 hours ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

The way how njt specs their buses, more specifically the ISX12 and X12 caused these buses to live in the shop. Meadowlands has over 35 21000s out of service. It took 5 years to work out the bugs in the 18000s and they still breaking down. 18089 was in the shop 2/3 of the time and most times they just ran it to make service. 

The 17000s we got are not going to last at eht with the 24hr work we do and a 67mph gov; they are literally choking the buses to an early grave. They worked at decamp because they don’t do relentless driving. 

Well shoot, 18089 and it’s ilk are gonna love Warwick 🙄

1 hour ago, DCTransitFilms said:

which ones are there rn?

18077, 18089

1 minute ago, Jarob1020 said:

Ours spend more time in the shop then on the road

….not the new ones??!!!

18000s are starting to show up at Wayne Garage to replace the 7100s/9000s

2 hours ago, FlashThunder said:

Saw bunch of XD60's and NABI buses chilling at Vince Lombardi lot on Friday (8/11). Any idea why there were there for? Does Medowlands garage have space issues now? 

Probably covering the concert then?

10 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Isn’t the 353 still gone?

I think they did have service during the football season.  Heck we were called to help when Coach USA couldn’t get everyone back to New York

Best bet is to have 353s standing by at Secaucus Junction.  I’d jump on that ($$$$)

On 7/20/2023 at 10:43 PM, Cait Sith said:

There are three A&C Bus NABIs at the Meadowlands lot, however. Seems like they're starting early.

 

Looks like you can add maybe a few more to that.  I was going to post seeing them there until I found your comment

7 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

#24 service has gotten so bad, that now you have taxi's (well, more like personal vehicle owners functioning as taxi's) transporting riders b/w Downtown Elizabeth & Jersey Gardens.... Take that for whatever it's worth....

Ever since the #31 got cut back from Livingston Mall, service hasn't been remotely the same... It went from being relatively reliable (the {then} full routed & the short turn trips), to now the select trips to S. Orange coming whenever they want (if at all), and even the short turn trips to Dover st. are increasingly not showing up....

Out of the 3 routes, the one I have the least hope for by far, is the #44 (and not because it runs along Central w/ the #24 either)... I'm somewhat surprised they still had it running weekends, TBH...

That’s a real shame about the 24.  
 

I had no idea about the 31 not serving Livingston Mall anymore.  The 44 is (part of) what I need for my train to bus connection to get to the Veterans Hospital for doctors appointments, even with it’s ridiculous headways 

5 hours ago, BenTheMiner said:

Like this?

There ya go.  Thanks

4 hours ago, BenTheMiner said:

You want this on an R68 sign...?

Yeah.  Let’s see how it comes out (since you don’t do 62As yet😁)

I’d like to see a sign in R68 format

 148 St-Lenox Terminal  

        Manhattan

        New Lots Avenue 

        Brooklyn 

thanks

1 hour ago, B35 via Church said:

I could only imagine that mad dash from tracks 1-3 to tracks 11/12 at Jamaica having gotten real old, real fast...

Good God….