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So they jumped to the 5200s?

5125 & up still haven't got the sign update and 5124 was the last one to get a orange sign (IIRC).

They're only doing it to the buses that had/has Twinvision signs.

With the amount of use that these switches are getting, does anyone still think that the IND overbuilt this junction? A lot of the flexibility is turning out to be quite useful. And we’re trying to save money by foregoing useful functionality like this in the future (hint: Grand Street and Second Avenue)?

A lot of the IND was overbuilt, which has actually been helpful over the years.

2121-2125 now out of Westchester

 

7491-7500 with 7927 on it's way to Corona

Saw 7500 NIS eariler at 90th Street.

So this showed up in my Youtube feed

 

Can someone explain how an L train would terminate at Atlantic Avenue?

There's a switch south of Atlantic Avenue that can be used.

9474 repainted.

For some reason, 1059 (Fishbowl) was on display in Downtown Brooklyn today and it deadheaded to ENY too.

With a handful of supplemental trains per hour turning at 2nd Avenue and NB trains switching to the local to get to 8th Avenue at Broadway-Lafayette? I don't know, there's only so much track space to go around here...

Well, given the headways of the Holiday train, you can run all of the trains with no issue.

Well, since the tracks to the montage tunnel are still OOS from Broad St, the is being extended to New Lots AV and Flatbush AV at the same time while the ends at Grand Central and the ends at Brooklyn Bridge. And I really wanted to see the to Propspect Park

Do you think before you speak ?

NOTE: if I am repeating, please ignore the bus moves.

 

3769 to JFK from BP

6005 to CA from CH

2927 and 2118 to LGA from CP (DL3 to LGA sheeeit)

8832 and 8941 to LGA from JA

8373 NEW to KB

 

LGA just got interesting.

I heard that the seats are still there but that wall is just in the way now. I don't know how true that is.

They take the seats out.

I could easily see the Q58 moved to Grand and converted. (Of course, that would mean moving other routes around and rerouting the Q58 away from those narrow streets in Ridgewood.)

Rumor has it that the Q58 will go to Stengal once they recieve more artics

Looks like NICE's Xcelsiors will be starting service next week.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/nice-bus-set-to-unveil-new-fleet-high-tech-upgrades-1.11004456

Looks like Rockaway @ Van Siclen Av stations won't be open until 2016 basically.

Does anyone know that the Jerome set on the , is it a pull-in from the yard?

It deadheads from the yard to 125th and starts service.

There's an OG on the B103.

What's going on with Quill today ? I've seen a lot of Hale and Tuskgee buses on their lines today.

1886 & 1887 are at Mitchel Field.

5133 repainted.

 

The buses you've named aren't in CS lol

and the TA is well aware of the 98 Nova RTS and Gen 1 07s HEVs are slated for retirement soon

Even tho it looks like the Village got "shitted" on with the change of the LFS order... They actually aren't

Trust with option orders on the table... The next wave of 40 footers coming in... Queens Village WILL be on that order but for the time being the way this order looks

By the time it's complete and ALL shifting has been done there WILL be a surplus of NGs and 1999 Novas... So QV will be fine

Not to mention 8045-8089 eventually will go back to QV once enough new LFS coming in[/. Says who?

 

Actually, if you do the math, Jamaica is supposed to receive enough LFSs to replace the NGS, 1996 RTSs, & the 2011 LFSs, and since QV is not getting a piece of the order, it does make sense for QV to take them back.

Come to think of it, trains can terminate at 96th street on weekends if they need a northern terminal and don't want to send it to 71st Ave

Or, Or, and bear with me on this, we DON'T do that.

4932 repainted.

Looks like they couldn't get enough buses to do the express shuttle bus es. All buses are going local from Canarsie to Myrtle.

While the Q44SBS is on track to start possibly next month.

No word yet on the B46SBS? Spotted a train strip the other day on the train. Train sets 7671-7675 have the strip for SBS46+

The B46 SBS got put on hold. They're probably going to wait until Flatbush gets more artics. 

I couldn't agree with you more. I feel like 10th Ave would have seen more usage than 34th street does now just because it is in more of a residential area so people will take it to head to Time Square, Grand Central and on Game days Citi Field. I was trying to look out the window to see where the station would be. Someone said on here before the MTA planned to leave the space for a 10th Ave station at another time but I couldn't see a spot with a big gap between tracks and I don't think the station would only have side platforms because all the other stops in Manahattan are island platforms.

By the way the tunnel looks, they didn't leave no shell or space for the proposed station.

QV Nova's will go to Jamaica instead.

 

Here's hoping QV gets all the 4800's as a consolation "prize"!

Good, I didn't really see the need of QV getting new buses.