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There’s a little indicator near the wheel and the internal turn signals that lights up when someone hits the stop request sign. I’ve spotted it a few times when I’d stand near the front door.

The bulk of the swap occurred at the beginning of the year, before the pandemic started. IIRC, Jamaica had roughly 5 sets of R46s left when the city started shutting down for COVID-19.

Fire. Bus looks pretty bad. No injuries tho.

You sure about that? #5784 is on the 39 right now, and that's a GH bus.

To whoever was asking before, the Bx99 seems to be an artic route. #1001 and #1050 are the first buses on the route from Woodlawn and SoHo, respectively.

Apparently, in all the confusion, a ended up on the Fulton Street Line bound for Queens. Video by “Metro Railfan” on YT:

5493 was a loan. It’s back at MJQ and currently running on the M34A SBS.

Not to mention there was something a while back about how they didn’t want to keep those MTABC buses in the SBS scheme just for the Q52/53, and they wanted to put them in the local scheme so they could run on any route if needed (i.e. the buses at JFK showing up on the Q10 and Q7, or the LGA buses showing up on routes like the Q33 and Q49 which have had an artic from the Q53 pop on due to some delays in Jackson Heights on several occasions)

4794 GH to UP as well, GH is down to 3 XD60s

4797 GH to UP, on the B1 right now

What really intrigues me is that according to Tripplanner the Bx99 starts running on Sunday, August 2nd, since I can plan a trip from Fordham to Houston Street on that date using the Bx99...

They’re doing work along the Line, my guess is that the work is happening between Lex-63rd and 57th Street, which is why they can’t sent trains up there anyway. If that weren’t the case, then there wouldn’t have been a reason to send the to 6th Avenue in the first place...

I’ve been seeing shots of 0023 at Yonkers. Is it currently there or did it go back to the facility in New Jersey again? Also, whats the status on those M99 and Bx99 routes that were mentioned a while back? Just curious, not being pushy.

It’s already on KB’s roster. If I’m not mistake, it’s been at KB for a very long time. Edit: 4369 and a couple other KB buses were in storage for a bit, but they’re still at KB.

It’s on all boroughs: some of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens routes have them as well. As mentioned earlier, it works with every single bus that has the passenger counters, and every borough has a few buses with those features.

This post should be in the bus section btw, but to answer your question, the XEs mostly run on the M42 and M50, but they've also shown up on the M9, M57, M66, and M72, as well as the M11 school trips from 110th to 34th. Quill tries to keep the XEs on the M42 and M50 since those two routes are close to the depot. They recently started running them on those other routes I mentioned towards the end of last year, but since 2020 started, they've gone back to only being on the M42 and M50.

I haven’t heard anything about the Bx25 being cut, so I think it’s still planned to return. It could just be that the MTA doesn’t wanna put that route up on BusTime to avoid confusing people and making them think the Bx25 is running in service or something.

I strongly disagree. Starting at Houston means that the route can pick up riders all along Midtown and Upper Manhattan. By starting at Grand Central, you'll be making things harder for people commuting from 14th Street and NoHo, and a lot of those folks are the ones heading uptown as well, so it doesn't really make sense to leave them out, or to make them transfer to get to the Bx99. There's a reason the B99 goes up to Columbus Circle and not, say, Penn Station or Times Square. It spans the entirety of Midtown, reaching more people.

Someone sent the image to the MTA’s Twitter account and the MTA apparently shared it with the NYPD as well

4791 is at UP, 4794-4798 is still at Gun Hill, and 4799 has been out of service because of a fire that occurred about a year or two ago

Unless I missed it, where would your route terminate in the Bronx?

It might have actually gone up to Concourse. There have been three 10-car sets laid up for a while, and today there was an 8-car set alongside them, which wasn't there on Wednesday.

Most likely a Prevost / Novabus facility

The pilot for the new 2020 Prevost order, #1300. It was stated on the last page.

5441 is now in the local scheme, saw it along Fordham Road today.