I’ve been seeing and tracking CA buses on YU and CH routes in the middle of the tush frequently so unless CA suddenly got trippers on those routes i suspect that they’re doing fine right now.
Mileage. Those 2011s (and i assume 2015s to an extent) must have racked up a decent amount of mileage compared to the rest of the system (granted their routes seem to be less extreme than say Charleston...) so a few 2019s might be needed to average things out
Because replacement buses are streaming in quickly. it lowers average bus mileage in each depot, reduced maintenance costs, results in more reliable service (well, in some cases... Not sure how the RTS vs. 2019 XD40 reliability battle is going...), and it makes the public feel good. There’s nothing to lose by shoving these hybrids out the door.
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And on that note, 6429, 6436 removed from service
It could always be just a fill-in for a missing Yukon run? Yesterday there was a 7000 on the s78 in the middle of the rush and a CAS 2019 LFS (I wanna say 8696...) was doing the s84 at about the same time.
My understanding was that the buses are going to retire soon enough anyway so they might as well retire ones that have major/expensive failures. Maybe JFK’s are performing better or they choose to do heavier maintenance on them. Regardless, LGA is suffering in the bus availability department. They’ve been borrowing CP C40LF again occasionally as of late
6097-6098 are at Hale rn. Not sure how temporary or not that is given their recent history borrowing stuff from quill, nor do i know if it’s already been reported..
So 6445 seems to be once again with QV? That said MV 6651 was scrapped, brought back to NV, then scrapped again without seeing service. So I’m just putting this out there for anyone who cares but it probably won’t see service again despite being with QV (for now).
Yep those don’t look like loans anymore.
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Anyway, 4372 was a loan I misreported as a move, i’m sorry about that, didn’t expect KB—>MV to be a loan since those sorts of transfers are usually moves.
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4072, 4076 GH—>MV, 4670 __—>MV
All of Manhattanville’s gen 1s retired last night: 6383, 6418, 6423. with that, there are no more 2003 orions left... FWIW 6383 and 6423 both retired off the M5, not sure what 6418 retired off of since that ran in the morning but not the evening.
This could be a loan i mis-reported as a move.
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4672 somewhere to MV also
IIRC they were left in the SBS scheme for tuskegee's m14 trips? So it should probably be a seamless transition to q44 service