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New Gillig batch delivery looks to be underway. Unsure of the full delivery numbers yet. 4183 was on the 214 yesterday and 4185 was on the 12 today. AFAIK those are the only two out on the road so far. Neither of them have permanent plates, only paper tags. Some interesting changes for the new 2019s. The seat design is different now with an all blue woven nylon texture as well as a completely new automatic annunciator voice. It's now a Male voice that sounds very robotic. Sounds fairly reminiscent to the "Stand clear of the closing doors please" guy on the MTA subways. IMHO I'm not a massive fan of the new voice. 

I always found the 2015-2016 ZF XD60s to sound pretty nice with the HVAC on.

6037 now has  New York City Bus decals.

Well, whatever the reasoning behind the XN style hatch is, it's most definitely messing with my OCD lol.

Quick thing to mention, 7540 has a slightly different rear end setup. I believe the engine bay door is off of an XN. Not sure what that's about.

I don't believe this has been mentioned already but as of writing this, all the new XD40s at MJQ currently have what I believe is the Aesys Multicolor destination signs. From what I've heard, the rest of the XD40s to MJQ will receive these destination signs but AFAIK, this isn't 100% confirmed.

Not sure if this is of any relevance but 7550 does have WF stickers. I don't know if this is normal for a short term loan/transfer.

Quite an odd one but I believe XN60 1001 was on the B35 yesterday.

I'm guessing they're both the purple line busplus colour? Also 4075?? That's an odd one..

12 minutes ago, MHV9218 said:

Right now those are both still at FP.

My apologies I meant FP. My phone autocorrected to UP.

So apparently XD40s 7508 and 7510 are at UP. Guessing this is classic MTA changing assignments up last minute or something different?

9917 was in service on the 12 as of yesterday morning/early noon.

Saw a few XN60s FINALLY running on the B35 a couple hours ago. I saw #1073, #1075, and #1078. There might be more, not too sure though.

On a slight change of topic, I believe 7488 was spotted on the Q3 yesterday.

Apologies if this question was already asked/answered but do we at all know when 7484 might possibly return back to MTA from NFI?

Finally! I've been waiting for these. Can't wait to see them out running!

Whats with the new SBS XD40s getting painted with "New York City Bus" on the rear?

EDIT: Not all of them have it. I have seen quite a few with it though.

New XD60s finally! Hell yes!

7 minutes ago, JeremiahC99 said:

And even if they do go to East New York, aren't all 17 of those XD60 buses supposed to be for the B82 SBS, since they have high ridership to be an articulated route (8,709,875 annual riders in 2016)?

Well I did hear that the B82 is supposed to go Artic after it goes SBS but that's a long way away I think.

3 minutes ago, JeremiahC99 said:

This is what I saw on page 1 for the XD60 bus order. I am still adamant that the last 17 buses (6109-6125) will be going to East NY. After all, why are they currently modifying the depot for artics if they won't get them after 2020?

Yeah that's what I saw as well. My guess is they're just holding them at separate depots and running them on separate routes until the construction is complete. Kind of like they did with the Bx6 issue on the Bx12 except this one is a bit longer in time.

1 minute ago, JeremiahC99 said:

Who told you that? Did @East New York and/or @The Real tell you anything about that, because they have all of the information regarding any changes to the bus roster?

Yes actually its on page 1. As far as I know those XD60s are now at MJQ and JFK.

Whatever happened to XD60s 6109-6125 that were supposed to to go to ENY?

Gotya. Thanks!

Are the 2018 XD40s at ENY just temporary or will something be happening with them? Ei. Will the B82 go SBS or will they be rewrapped to Local Service.

1 hour ago, MTABusFan925 said:

Yeah, the WF XN60's are now doing BX-6 SBS work. The XN40's are being phased out of SBS service, and in the process of being un-wrapped. #726 was seen on the BX-31 with SBS wrapping

I'm guessing you mean without SBS wrapping?