46Dover

The 192/199 schedules have changed to reflect the opening of the Kingsland Street bridge in Clifton Commons.   It was supposed to open the 6th, but it’s been pushed up to the end of the month to August

12 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

Any other reason as to why?

Just wanted those Wendy’s grilled chicken sandwiches and with the mall closing early I can’t do that.  

Beginning to think I picked the wrong work.  Having Willowbrook Mall close at 8 is just bad....

The night from hell that could have been worse: (cue gazoo noise)

I took a ride into Bay Ridge to visit friends I rode a 192 bus deadheading from Wayne garage starting at Clifton to Port Authority then using  (R46 set) and an  (R160s).  Round trip.  Late that afternoon I took a ride on the 119 out of Port Authority on the New Flyer Xcelsiors.  Which is nice since they had working USB ports and my iPhone was low on battery.  Run the full length and get the 10 at Bayonne to go to Jersey City (Suburban NABI).  Get off at Journal Square and take the  to Newark.  Next plan is to get the 11 to Willowbrook Mall and make a connection to the 198 to go near my job (where I parked my car).  Well, I’m on the wrong side of Newark Penn and miss the 11.  Ok no problem, I’ll get the 28.  It only goes to Montclair State University?  Ok no problem, get the last train to Mount Olive and go to Wayne Transit Center.  Pass an Emergency Vehicle setup along Bloomfield Ave (thought nothing of it at the time).  Get to MSU and made my way to Montclair Heights.  I wait 10 minutes, then 20 minutes,  so I put out a bolo on Facebook to see if anyone knows what’s going on (the app has no info at all).  Come to find out the emergency vehicles seen earlier served a purpose after all:  Fire along the MOBO line at Glen Ridge.  NY-MSU train cancelled.  My train to Wayne Transit Center is 50 minutes late.  Around the corner is the last bus to Newark from MSU (28).  Next plan is to catch the 72 to go to Paterson and catch whoever was done for the night going back to Wayne garage.  Operator puts me off a full mile (or two) before a spot where I’m supposed to get off.  Cue a long walk down Bloomfield Avenue (which included some brisk walks mixed in with all out sprints), but I made it to Broad and Belleville with 3 minutes time to spare.  The last 72 bus is operated by a former co worker of mine from Lakeland and so we caught up as we were moving along.  Found a 190 going back to Wayne and thus ended a night that could’ve gone badly wrong 🤦‍♂️

9 hours ago, BreeddekalbL said:

@46Dover who uses the dreaded gate 230 outside when the 195 does 

Whats this i heard that they are working on Market st  garage cause i saw someone post a video of a wayne bus doing a 704B 

1. Not sure if anyone does 

2. Not surprised.  A friend of mine from Lakeland is designated 74 driver with an MCI.

1 hour ago, B35 via Church said:

Charlton kept referencing contacting a Kevin Covitt?/Covett (whoever that is), but I am interested to see what, if anything, ends up happening with #319 service because of this jackleg reporter - slash - transit advocate's occurrence here.....

Maybe he means Kevin Corbett, the Executive Director of NJT

29 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

A month or so ago, I wanted to do the #195 full... Handed the b/o the ticket... Asked where I was going... Said Willowbrook Mall... He then said "233" (I knew what he meant by that)... I just descended off the bus w/o conflict.... Some b/o's on the route 9 routes do that shit also.... If I want to ride the #135 to Freehold Center instead of the #130 or the #139, I would do so.... I always go in believing that b/o's that do that are trying to be helpful, but now I'm starting to believe that most of them do that shit, do so full knowing that little to no one takes their particular trip the whole way - Meaning, they can dick around doing god knows what, after they drop off the last passenger.... Which is their business, but these are still fixed routes we're talking about here...

You know, I used to do the same thing to send whoever wanted to go to Willowbrook from 308 to 306 (late evenings) for the express until it dawned on me that some folks (and the case if I had to do the daytime trips off Gate 234) may want to get off on North Leg or Willowbrook Blvd.  Especially now since it would seem that everyone is coming back riding the buses again, it also helps to alleviate loads for said express lines to just go ahead and board those locals

29 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

 

What's the story with gate 230 btw?

 

That gate is the most difficult to put a 45 foot coach in for those who have never had the pleasure of going into that gate.  It is a very (2x more times) tight turn, so much that you have to swing out perfectly in order to fit in.  Wayne operators who have the (haha) pleasure of doing the 195X are feeling the challenge of pulling into that gate without running the risk of having safety points on their record.  To this day I have no idea how past lines (ostensibly the 127) pulled it off

All these hiring for $15 at all these fast food restaurants and no takers?

Don’t kill me for using a Jersey-ized example for this, but what shocked me when I first started my new pick recently was I wasn’t expecting Willowbrook Mall to close at 8pm on a Saturday.  I went into the mall on break with the sole mission of getting a grilled chicken sandwich from Wendy’s only to find out from the manager there (who works in 3 different locations) that they can’t get workers. He is also having to do work for a lot of people. I can only imagine what it’s like for mall shoppers east of the Hudson.   Not to mention the heartbreak of seeing a once 24 hour White Castle closed at a time you crave for a burger...

Lakeland used to drop off at Willowbrook  Mall on the side of US 46 East, however with construction of the area that came to an end.  With construction complete it was expected to resume drop off services, but the finished construction has left no room for the buses to pull off to the side, so Lakeland will no longer stop at Willowbrook

On 7/3/2022 at 5:58 AM, B35 via Church said:

If you don't mind me asking, what route{s} will you primarily be doing now?

Saturdays I have the 198 (round trip), then 195 at 5:20 out of Willowbrook with a 191 round trip and a 195 out of Port Authority.  Sundays I’m the last 4 inbounds on the 192.  Mondays I have the 199, 195X (with that horrific entry into Gate 230 🤦‍♂️), and a 191 round trip.

Tuesday and Wednesday I have 2 324 trips and I finish with a 194 to Stockholm.  I’m off Thursdays and Fridays, but it’s 4th of July and I’m feeling greedy 😁

14 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

- Had a nice FREE ride on the #197 from Alps Rd. to NYC yesterday (after riding the full #744 to the shell-of-its-former-self that is now Preakness Shopping Center)... Broken farebox on #20018, according to the b/o.... I still have to get around to taking the full #197 up to Warwick again one day.

 

I missed an opportunity to see you then. Friday was my last day of my pick on the PABT-Pompton Lakes 197.  The Warwick side of Alps is torn up because of construction which NJT/Wayne Twp has temporarily eliminated (took them long enough).  I was hoping not to be challenged by some passenger or someone doing jumping jacks as a measure of getting my attention, to board or alight that stop which thankfully has not been the case.

14 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

Mall on a few occasions about a year or so ago.... According to this though, that shuttle no longer runs to/from Willowbrook Mall... It serves some employee off-site parking lot now instead.... News to me...

Same.  I would expect a load of folks to go back to New York on the 194, 197 or 198 alone from Hello Fresh.  

3 hours ago, GojiMet86 said:

Didn't know this even existed, I'm looking at their routes right now:

232: Kearny

241: One Harrison

273: Harmon Meadow

555: Rutherford-Lyndhurst

566: The Monarch

610: Route 10

646: Fairfield-West Caldwell

843: HelloFresh

Night Owls

636: East Orange

647: Irvington

691/692/693/694: Newark

Wave Shuttle

So the 646 is the one I see in Fairfield on 46 and the 843 is the one I see at Willowbrook 

56 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

side note: What buses even pickup/dropoff on that other side of the terminal anyway (the exit side) anymore? Unless I'm missing something, it has way too many bays....

I think it’s those EZ Ride shuttle buses (the ones that serve Willowbrook Mall to that food factory behind I-80 in Wayne, and I think I’ve seen them in Newark as well)

33 minutes ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

Contract states you are to be qualified before doing any route. You are not to just take a route description and do the line. You get into an accident 1. You going to get min 4 points 2. Your distracted driving which turns into improper operation write up on top of the accident. They pay you to learn the line 3x.
 

This is the problem I have with the new ppl coming in they trying to save the day. Learn the line properly with an operator who knows the line that way you learn it correctly and you follow along with the route description as your learning. Most older guys will take you out there.

Do you know how many times I’ve been asked to do work outside my garage?  I said no but I would like to be trained on it.  Nothing happens after i ask.

3 hours ago, BreeddekalbL said:

For the new operators do if you are running a route for the first time like the 161 190 etc do they give you a route sheet (left right) to know the turns etc

Yes.  

3 hours ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

How long did all of that take?

 

I think, all told, 5 hours?

16 hours ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

If you out of any of the northern garages that go into New York you can come out as any pabt line in your garage. 
 

if you pick a work run/combo you can go on as a 308 and come out as a 114X just to use Ironbound as an example. There are are straight runs but you have to look at the paddle because you have header lines like rhe 139 but 25 on the 139 is all 319.

My favorite was being bounced around on extra board (asking “who makes these schedules anyway?) like a basketball first doing the 196 from Warwick, then 161 to Paterson, then 190 to New York (although the latter was an express, but still...) 🙄

It’s expected that since they’re not getting the ridership on that line, they’ll put up another 46 trip

11 hours ago, mfs NJT459 said:

So were buses called to do extra runs from the PABT to areas affected by the cancelled trains such as the 114/Raritan Valley Line

I would say no because a lot of companies are still not out of the COVID funk with schedules, laid off employees, etc.   For example, because people who needed to go to Morristown didn’t have Community Coach, or Mount Arlington, didn’t have Lakeland, etc.  

On 5/25/2022 at 10:10 AM, quadrock said:

Looks like Lakeland finally restored (very limited) service via Boonton and Mountain Lakes after more than a 2 year gap. Only 2 round trips so far, with a third starting with the 5/31/22 schedule change. It's nowhere near the level of service previously offered but it's a start!

And just as quickly as it came back, it’s gone

The following lines will be affected by the new gate changes happening 6/25/22:

107X to Gate 306  (307 nights)

112 to Gate 221, (316 on nights) 

123 to Gate 203 (303 nights)

126 to Gate 213 (323 nights)

126 via Willow Ave from Gate 214  (323 nights)

119 to Gate 210  (322 nights)

127 to Gate 315

153T to Gate 305 PM Rush Hours

167/177 to Gate 220 (Gate 326 nights)

195X to Gate 230 PM Rush Hours

320 to Gate 204

The guy I picked up in West Milford on the 197 who wanted to go to Spring Valley wished there was a local connection.  Oof.

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Oh really?  Nice