MysteriousBtrain

1 hour ago, Transit Enthusiast said:

Apparently, some 2010s are reaching their 500K mile limit early. Once any bus in the MTA hits 500,000 miles, then it has to retire.

Not to say I don't believe it but I feel like there are plenty of buses that passed the 500k mark especially the RTS and the older MCIs.

The 1200's are not set for retirement until next year the earliest when the new 92 artic order is set to take place.

5 minutes ago, Bx41 boi said:

I wanna know when These Buses first Started Service and on what route

Orion V (1993 units at Staten Island exp unit; Yukon)

D60HF (1996; Bx1)

MCI (1997; same as Orion V; but Castleton first)

1998 C40LF (self explanatory; no recorded first run)
 

8 minutes ago, NBTA said:

So you want service on Douglaston Parkway? I don’t think there’s a demand for that. “If you create the line the demand will increase”, I don't think it will

3 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:

$116M grant from senator Chuck Schumer for 230 electric buses were recently announced. Expected delivery is by 2025 with assignments being Kingsbridge and Gun Hill in the Bronx, Mother Clara Hale in Manhattan, East New York in Brooklyn and Grand Ave, and Queens Village in Queens.

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$116 grant from senator Chuck Schumer for 230 electric buses were recently announced. Expected delivery is by 2025 with assignments being Kingsbridge and Gun Hill in the Bronx, Mother Clara Hale in Manhattan, East New York in Brooklyn and Grand Ave, and Queens Village in Queens.

53 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

I want to concur with running the M98 back to 34th, but I'd say the damage has long been done....

Now with the M100 having been neutered, it makes the demand that much more one-sided for the M101 (again).... Amazing how they can clip the M100 at 125th, but double-down with retaining the M101....

Wouldn't hold my breath. I feel like by the time Manhattan redesign knowing how the MTA is they will either chop more of the M98 or cut the M101 with a different LTD bus route taking it's place 

14 hours ago, MHV9218 said:

You guys see the mess in Connecticut? Every XE40 pulled from service after spontaneous combustion at a depot. Doesn't bode amazingly for the fleet.

To be clear (not that you are making the argument) it's not a problem with only NF. The media dosent care about a bus model. They pushing the fact that the bus is battery electric and bc it blew up (note, this is not the first time a battery electric exploded out of nowhere) that means they suck and we need to keep diesel powered vehicles on the road.

In general the transit industry has a long way to go before a battery electric transportation vehicle can work well enough in all types of weather and conditions.

It's said a minimum of 100-120 buses need to be relocated due to repairs needed by next year. Like Cait Sith said if it's needed the M60 could move to MCH under an agreement, and a couple other routes could be shifted around in the MABSTOA Division (i.e. M125 to WF, M57, M66, M72 to MHV, M96/106, M116 to TU)

8 hours ago, checkmatechamp13 said:

I mean the microtransit is pretty much like a shared taxi. The same way somebody can request an Uber is the same way someone can request a microtransit pickup.

If it's advertised around the airport sure, but if there's no signage indicating there is an airport bus to WP and vice versa, I see no point in including Westchester County Airport as part of the microtransit service. 

Now that it looks like the artics are being converted from SBS to local scheme, perhaps in a couple yrs when all routes become equipped with chargers it could be possible to do some route swapage between 100 and 146.

For interlining purposes I see it possible to swap the M15 SBS for the M102/M125 which I believe more or less share a similar spare factor. Plus (slightly off topic), it's gonna look good when the M35 has a consistent fleet of local scheme buses instead of "borrowing" buses from the M15-SBS.

Given my thoughts on the 12, I don't understand why they wanna cut service to the airport and replace it with micro transit. That's likely gonna discourage ridership to the airport and resort people to driving/taking cabs. Even if the Airport is considered a "satellite airport", I feel it's still major enough to warrant a WP-Airport connector like the former 79/Airlink bus.

Perhaps since the airport is in the "suburbs" they might be able to get away with it but still.

The 5 "pilot" LFSE+ for MTA are expected to be purchased, not leased and will be based out of KB. They are expected for delivery Oct. 2023-April 2024.

44 minutes ago, Ultimategamer12c said:

6036 is now in local scheme from CS.

Damn looks like the de-SBS process about to begin 

5 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

 

Are the runs from Tuskegee, or just the buses? What were the run numbers?

Currently 5861 is on the M35, run 309 (not an expert on what the numbers mean, just providing the info asked)

100 st still has select runs for the M35. Some 100 st artics are running on the M35 at this moment 

Active procurements as of June 2022:

• 470 battery-electric buses

• 355 standard

• 25 standard (MTABC)

• 90 articulated

• 5 Nova standard battery-electric buses (award expected in 2022)

• 250 express clean-diesel buses

(MTABC)

• 289 standard clean-diesel buses

(MTABC)

• 245 articulated clean-diesel buses

Upcoming procurements

• 213 standard CNG buses (MTABC)

• 155 standard CNG buses

• 92 express clean-diesel buses

• 10 battery-electric test buses (unclear if this is part of the NovaBus contract or a different contract altogether; at least 5 are possibly coach units)

20 hours ago, 4 via Mosholu said:

Are the routes not being rerouted going to keep their 1984 digital signs?

I've seen that the 40/42 is keeping its stacked 1984 sign of Throgs Neck Ft Schuyler/Harding Avenue, but some of them might be getting the older Luminator signup like it was the early 90's (the 35/36 being two routes I've seen slated to get signed that way from when Staten Island went through a sign change of its own for its express routes towards Manhattan when they were revamped. For example: where it was once West Midtown Central Pk South via Church St via 6 Av on the X1, its just signed as West Midtown via Church St via 6 Av on the SIM1C).

The Bx11/35 have the same signage towards George Washington, just added via 170 St/E 174 St and via 167-169 St respectively 

Update: 4543 is still assigned to GH

2 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

Did somebody in the Dept. of Buses deliberately set up the assignment so that 8888 would end up at CS (where it would serve a largely Asian-American population)?

Did somebody in the Dept. of Buses deliberately set up the assignment so that 666 would end up at JG (where it could serve as bad luck and increase chances of a CNG explosion at the depot)? 

Almost as bad as saying the 2015 XD40s need to stay at their depots so the numbers stay consecutive.

3 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

The deliveries of the newer Novas (both diesel and hybrids) to Transit are going slow, so there aren’t as much buses available to move around. As for the hybrids, they are already at their retirement age and some are getting the axe to salvage their parts.

On top of this, politics caused buses to be retired faster, although the Orion's we have rn are not in the best condition either due to aged batteries and some with hard to fix parts as well.

Something to note on the MTA website the Bronx bus redesign was renamed Bronx Local Bus Redesign. They don't mention anything regarding the express bus network. @Via Garibaldi 8 probably has the insight on this but obviously it looks like the express plan was indefinitely shelved but there's absolutely no mention of if they are even gonna revisit the plans due to extreme backlash from the changes. Seems like they don't even wanna attempt at it again because everything now is mostly what everyone wants. 

12 hours ago, NBTA said:

My brother, you don’t ride Bronx routes, it’s okay. Imma tell you why these proposed routes don’t make sense.

1: While I am 50/50 about the  should be a full time limited, the renaming of the  to the Bx1A would spark confusion.

2: You’re making the  longer than what it has to be, and rerouting the  would just be redundant.

3. Those s are relatively empty going to and leaving Bay Plaza. There’s a reason why it’s only a weekend thing, plus it makes less stops than the . 

4: There’s a reason why the  and  got split. The ‘s main objective is to serve those going to/from Flushing to the eastern part of the Bronx. The ’s purpose is to serve those who are catching the  train.

5: I’ve came up with this idea before, but now, as more time comes past, it wouldn’t work with constant traffic jams, plus the  is one of the most reliable buses in the Bronx, and the  isn’t.

6: What would be the point? You’re adding 10-15 minutes to a bus line that’s really only supposed to be at max, 30 minutes. The isn’t used as much as you think. 

 

The bold is the only thing I disagree with. Bx5 dosent see much ridership partially bc MTA doesn't promote it and knows if they add weekday service that's gonna dip into $$. They rather just keep the sole route of the Bx12 SBS and cram everyone into that. Not to even mention how bad it might get later when the Bx29 starts it's cut.

1 hour ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

That is exactly the point I made at the Zoom meeting last night, which is that there needs to be an HOV lane for the entire length of the LIE in both directions, and the upcoming meetings that I'm hosting/speaking at, I will note this again to the  reps. They thanked me for the feedback last night, but the truth of the matter is, no one thinks about these details that seem minor, but are major. In the Bronx Redesign, I was shocked to learn that despite them noting that parts of the plan required coordination with the DOT, no one had actually spoken with the DOT about that part of the plan. 

I'll add further to my QM3 comments and say that the West Side has its own congestion. There are just too many things that would need to go right to make such a route worthwhile. If it's going to stop near Penn Station, then it is directly competing with the LIRR, which is pointless. The QM3 is needed for areas AWAY from the LIRR, both in Queens and Manhattan.

Slightly off topic, but is there demand for flushing Exp bus service? Not to say the QM3 should be rerouted over there but I can see someone proposing that to replace/ combine QM3/X51 service. 

Going back to the QM3, if the route gets kept the route should run in a similar matter of LIE routes in the new plan, with nonstop service west of Main Street. Don't change anything in Manhattan. And if this goes through, there does need to be HOV lanes for the buses to be on. Everyday even for a city going back to pre-pandemic levels I never seen highways packed like this before.

2 hours ago, Future ENY OP said:

@Kingsbridgeviewer382, @MysteriousBtrain @Cait Sith  @T J Trainman  NEED  confirmation on 3 NG’s possibly are scrapped. 4170, 4544 and 4550. These 3 units out of EN haven’t operated for the better of this month.  

The only one I don't have on my list is 4170. Not sure about the other two.