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  1. http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/topic/48741-more-nice-buses-gone-including-1636/
  2. It's alright guys, don't worry. The XN40's might be less than 5 months old and breaking down already, but we have free money and we're going to spend it to run more empty buses on routes little amounts of people care about. - NICE, 2016 Piney is somewhere crying right now because he doesn't have everyone's attention.
  3. 40+ downloads and counting. Glad people like the upload. Also, for Tom, no complaints = no virus. You're perfectly right to be suspicious. For example, I remember reading about not only NICE saying they saved so much on a new fuel contract that they attributed the ability to do so many things with. But, they also stated the first year they were in service that they made close to half a million dollars on auctioning off used buses when the first batch only sold for up to a couple thousand dollars a bus, no where close to that number when you add them up. Of course, when the announcement was made, there wasn't much proof anymore since Auctions International hides their sold listings after a month or two.
  4. Are there any Orions from Long Island Bus still in-tact at Eastchester?
  5. What is this drama bullshit? I come here to see news about anything-MTA and this is going on. First, if you post on Facebook and don't believe in using your privacy settings, I believe it's fair game to post that stuff here. It's an open internet, and the rules don't say anything about Facebook here. I've posted plenty of stuff from Facebook here. Second, whatever is going on with the staff, if you don't want to operate this site anymore, just leave the staff and have Harry close it. There are possible alternatives like Subchat, and someone could just open up a fresh new forum and people will find it. I find it ridicoulous how someone on the staff here de-rails an entire thread that used to update fleet info to bring this drama in when you could have just opened up a new thread or something. If this is going to continue, I could care less what happens to this place. It doesn't matter to me whether or not I share what I have with other members here. I lurked this place for a couple of years, and now that I'm posting here off and on, this stuff happens. It took me months to get something fixed from the staff when I had a problem with my account, and one of the staff members on here gave me an attitude when I asked a couple of questions because he thinks he owns the place and feels all high and mighty with internet power. I haven't done anything to piss anyone off here(except maybe PinePowerLI, but I could care less about him), but reading about this garbage is preposterous.
  6. Someone? I exposed him in the NICE thread he created. Because he supports PinePowerLI, I will not be answering his questions.
  7. Anyone interested in a bunch of cab rides on the LIRR? I happened upon this today. They're a bit old with no sound, but still worth a glance: https://www.youtube.com/user/henryjpridejr/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
  8. Here's a photo taken from the dump I posted on the previous page of the thread here. If you download it, you can see the photo was taken January 2, 2008. Anyone remember these:
  9. For Tom Meadow, here's the surprise. We all know PinePowerLI reads this forum, takes information from it, then passes it off in his YouTube videos as his own. Well here's payback, a dump of his hacked and then deleted Photobucket. Keep up the nonsense John, you have been warned: http://www.mediafire.com/download/n565h80e88g1v5e/Btraindash_183320a.zip
  10. @Tom Meadow I found PinePower's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000453775519 And I have another surprise coming soon. There had to be some money saved by cutting back the n21 or else NICE wouldn't have tried to do it in the first place. Between those buses running empty between Glen Cove and Roslyn, or the consistent dead-heads I see running the entire n20 route or taking the LIE from Queens all the way to Glen Cove Rd, there's just so much money being blown.
  11. I got an idea. How about the n20 just be reinstated to it's original setup, and the n21 go back to being rush hours only. Oh no, we can't do that because of LIBRU's whining. To transport all the hicks.
  12. How many times are some of you going to ask whether or not the n20G/H split has been a success? Untl some official statistics come out (preferably from someone other than NICE since I believe many of their statistics are as truthful as what the county spews out), it's purely opinion so just read the last few pages of posts in this thread or even the last pages of the threads in this section and it'll tell you. I mean, come on guys.
  13. It's NICE. Let them walk. Where to turn around? Have the buses turn around in that diner's parking lot or one of the 3 gas stations. Given the professionalism of NICE drivers, I'm sure they could all manuever the turn.
  14. 1) I don't think FamousNYLover's video proved anything about either argument of the n20G/H change. It was probably the shakiest video I've ever seen as well. 2) I stand by the n20G/H still not being a good idea. Yes, you can save time if the connections match up transferring at Northern Blvd & Middle Neck Rd as opposed as going all the way to the train station. That's if the buses happen to be entering the intersection at the same or close to the same time and you can cross the street. You could have done that with the old NICE n20 as well since nothing ever ran on time during prime hours anyway. Otherwise, take into consideration the percentage of breakdowns, the time lost by consistent traffic lights, and the overall history of NICE, and this is still doomed to fail.
  15. I've read through a lot of old threads here and happened to see it in a mention of some old Suffolk Transit website somewhere that took it from your Photobucket. Can we move everything to the Random Thoughts Thread of Suffolk Transit now?
  16. Oh good, I'm not the only one who noticed. Between this and Jose's uploads of old bus schedules being passed between sections, it seems there's a little bit of an unorganizational schema around here.
  17. Most of the people who edit that page are either members on here or members who have been banned from here (ie. A lot of the information that gets on there is sourced from members here). I don't edit Wikipedia myself.
  18. That is interesting. Because if they were heading east out of Nassau County, they would most likely be going to the Diesel facility in Ronkonkoma like Joel said. If they were heading into south Nassau being towed on a different road, they could have just been scrapped and were going to Cedar Creek to be auctioned off. Did you catch the numbers? There was a set of buses just auctioned off and sold in January, so maybe the buyer was finally towing some of them out? Not entirely sure. He said being towed on the westbound LIE at exit 29 which would mean they were in Queens heading into the city. That's assuming it really was westbound.
  19. Out of curiosity, has anyone asked any SCT drivers who frequently do the S20 what they think of the change?
  20. I'm still for not bringing back any route and putting the money towards maintenance of the buses and fixing what's broken on them.
  21. Here's the announcement video: Also, you're welcome for posting the entire news article instead of just a snippet as well.
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