Brillant93
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I don’t know how ride sharing is that much attractive when itself is expensive? On top of that waiting for one takes the same amount of time as a bus almost if you’re sharing it, never the less some divers will cancel your ride based off of how much your ride cost.
Its like people who prefer amazon when they live in a city where shopping for things are blocks away compared to people who live in rural places. You spend more for what is advertised as “efficient”
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2 minutes ago, paulrivera said:
TBTA has an Eagle team now.
Yes, you read that correctly.
What’s tbta?
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11 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:
Sir. Are you completelyoutta ya mind. Why u think the city HAD to put CAPS on the for-hire services. Bad enough the
has gotten worse since the 1990’s where bus speeds were on average. It’s totally horrendous now and it’s time for them to finally address the issue.
My thought was to combine traffic made for transit into use via a lane to take away from regular single use traffic.
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They should allow taxis, Uber’s, and Lyfts drive along bus lanes, it can help ease up traffic from regular passenger traffic.
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25 minutes ago, bobtehpanda said:
Translation of this capital plan:
- Byford has good intentions
- The LIRR is sitting on its hands while continuing to burn money underneath Grand Central
- "We don't know how to spend money properly so we're just gonna keep on even though the State and the City barely funded the last one and we're drowning in debt service"
I don't think its the MTA that doesn't know how to spend money properly but we do know we have crooks who always prevents money from being spent wisely. Some people need to be locked up, ASAP!
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1 minute ago, WestFarms36 said:
Obviously Artics do offer more space, but the whole process is for nothing when you eliminate a ton of runs to pack people who would normally be on 5 40 Footers, onto 2 Artics. One thing is to Articulate a route to reach a route's growing demands, another is simply articulating a route to make people wait longer and pack them onto a single bus.
Well i've been saying for years some routes need them over certain routes. Like some of the bronx routes didn't need artics, but BK needed them on their routes for a long time. We're finally seeing it, but unfortunatley our ridership is going down. The B82 overtook the B41 which was a quite surprise to me, guess which one is going artic first?
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3 minutes ago, WestFarms36 said:
Well
has been using Articulation as a way to CUT service. The Bx36 literally got murdered in the Spring Pick back in April. A route who's headways would be 5-7 Minutes, turned into 12-14 Minute waits. Of course there are Articulated routes out there with short headways, but in those instances they are routes which NEED demand, but it isn't fair for the rider who has to wait during the scorching heat in July, and Hand Freezing cold in January to endure such a cut. The purpose of Articulation is to provide more capacity for a given route, not to use it as a way to quietly eliminate trips while at it. In other words, you are not increasing capacity when you are eliminating far more trips to carry even more people that will overcrowd the Articulated Buses instead.
Let me create a scenario:
Paul lives by the Bx35 and the route is currently running 40 Foot Standards. Paul has to be at work everyday by 8:30am, and his Job is in Washington Heights on the last stop. Paul starts his trip at E 167 St/Grand Concourse. Now his trip according to myMTA is 22 Minutes from his stop all the way to Washington Heights, Paul wants to allow an extra 10 Minutes onto his trip, so he wants to be there by 8:20am. Now according to the Bx35 Schedule for the Spring Pick, Effective April 28, 2019 during the 7am Hour there are 14 Buses scheduled to arrive at his stop, those trips are the :00, 04, 10, 14, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 52, 57. Now According to the Bx35 Schedule for the Fall Pick, Effective September 1, 2019 during the 7am Hour there are now 10 Buses Scheduled to arrive at his stop, those trips are the :00, 06, 12, 19, 25, 31, 38, 44, 51, 57. Paul used to take the 7:57 trip which would arrive fairly crowded, that bus would be due in Washington Heights by 8:14am, if he would run a bit late, he'd have another bus due at his stop by 8:01am allowing him to arrive by 8:17am, still giving him time to go and clock in. Now post articulation, guess what happened to the people who would be on the 04, 10, 14, 23, 27, 35, and 47 Buses, well they are now packing onto the :00, 04, 10, 14, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 52, 57 trips. So now that you've eliminated a few trips those people are coming out of their homes earlier or later to pack onto whatever they get, and when the bus is exceeding its passenger load, far more people who are at the Bus Stops are screwed since they can't get on the buses that pull up and have to wait for the next bus which arrives way later than what it used to be, hence making people late to work, school, appointments, etc, and all while INCREASING the WAIT TIMES at a stop. So in this case if Paul has to toss up his 7:57am bus because its overcrowded, he has to wait for the next one which arrives by 8:03am, dumping him off exactly at 8:20am at his stop, then making him late for work, let alone if he were to toss up the 8:03am bus because it was also overcrowded, he'd end up in the Heights by 8:26am, now leaving him 6 minutes late to work. Now, I am being generous to talk about the AM Rush, but if I made a scenario based during off-peak, or Sunday Service, then it would be far worse than this.
I understand what you're saying but at the same time you're not taking into account the amount of space artic buses has over standard buses. People would pack into another bus if it were standard, but articulation accommodates space over time. Now if this were cuts given to a standard route, it would be very, very bad. The B44 sbs got its runs cut during april for the M14 sbs and its articulated and one of Brooklyns highest bus route. On top of that you have lots of other routes that are standard that have modest to high ridership that got cut back in spring. Off peak is different, and I know that but lets take it like this. If a depot has to put more buses onto a route that means they'll have to eventually cut another route in the same depot or another to make more buses run on that route itself.
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14 minutes ago, Calvin said:
5439, 5440, 5441, 5443 are at Flatbush
Woah! Left field right there! I thought BK was gonna be unified to Xcesliors?
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1 hour ago, Trainmaster5 said:
If wait times are increased but they run fewer buses, no matter the size, how is this better? If the ridership numbers remain the same all it adds up to is longer waits. The same amount of people are still being transported by my calculations. When it’s 20 degrees outside and Mr. Wind, aka the Hawk, is kicking butt I doubt if everyone will feel the same way you do. I never expected to see someone agreeing with a service cut , as per the Daily News article, on a transit advocacy forum. Just my opinion. Carry on.
Space and wait times are quite different and that’s what I’m trying to get at here. They’re giving more space due to overcrowding. Why should a customer have to skip two to three overcrowded buses at the peak of rush hour? Their wait time will be longer than usual. If an articulated bus runs and gives more space that person or persons wouldn’t have to wait for one more bus to arrive to get on due to it being overcrowded. I live in the southern part of Bk where they have several routes that have high ridership and growing up that’s what’s always happened. B41 overcrowded and left the house to catch a bus at a certain time, skip that bus and wait a few more minutes, B46, same, B82, same, B44, same, the list goes on. Now what should be the concern is the cut in service on standard routes without anything to accommodate it.
50 minutes ago, WestFarms36 said:Do not even get me started on the Bx39's morning headways.
7AM - :05, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55Now the Highlighted trip is my bus, but thing does not show up until 7:37 or later most of the time... Note that I get to the stop by 6:55am everyday, and none of those buses arrive before mine.
And yet how would that be any fault of the equipment being used for a standard or an articulated bus? Seems like this is quite common across the city on a lot of routes.
Thats a whole other issue, not bus type.
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6 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:
......you really think Fuel Cell would come here?😂🤣
Often times, when they say "Standard", that means diesel.
Oh okay. Is this plan approved yet or does it have to go through review?
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7 hours ago, paulrivera said:
I like how finally the lawmakers and the media have finally woken up and have realized that
artic bus route conversions = service cuts and longer wait times.
It only took them 23 years to come to that realization, but I'm glad it's happened. Now for future conversions everyone's gonna hold the
's feet to the fire.
Longer wait times beat over crowded buses in my opinion. Especially if it’s by a minute or two. You don’t know how many times there’s been high ridership bus routes that are standards that are way overcrowded and you have to pass up several standard buses till you can get one that isn’t crowded.
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13 minutes ago, JeremiahC99 said:
This is going to be one interesting batch . I wonder what the fuel type will the non-electric buses run on, aside from the possible diesel buses for the express order. Will it be Hybrid buses? Fuel Cell? CNG possibly for fleet replacement? Oh the world may never know yet.
I think hybrid and CNG will be standard buses. Would be interesting to see where they would be going though.
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25 minutes ago, Union Tpke said:
Now is the B46 full time or part because it was said to be part time articulated due to FB allotment that was given to them.
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Apparently the mta won’t be going full electric until much later like at the end of the next decade.
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6 minutes ago, Union Tpke said:
M42 SBS, I mean M42 update. The M42, M96 and B35 among other routes will essentially be SBS routes, but, with the arrival of OMNY, SBS branding will go away. Bus stops are being consolidated, bus lanes are being added, queue-jumps and quik curbs are being added-this is an SBS route. I just wish that the bus lanes were 24/7.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/42nd-st-cb6-sep042019.pdf
The only one that is 24/7 is the bus lane on kings hwy between ocean avenue and Flatbush
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14 minutes ago, NBTA said:
There’s some sort of Electric/Hybrid Xcelsior bus inside of the Zerega plant, passed by it twice in the past week and it hasn’t moved, can anyone confirm what it is?
Is it an XE60? Because those are supposed to be coming in during the last few months of this year.
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Something tells me that if the MTA wasn't forced to scrap their old artics there would have been enough to cover the B38.
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10 minutes ago, aemoreira81 said:
7649 now in regular livery at FLA.
That’s been reported, like two months ago.
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B44 SBS - Regular Weekday Service Levels Restored (New Schedule Cover and Format)
Early AM service will operate more frequent.
AM Rush service will operate every 5-6 minutes instead of every 7-8 minutes.
Weekdays (9 AM-11:20 AM): Service will operate every 10 minutes instead of every 8-9 minutes.
AM Rush service south of Avenue U will operate every 9-16 minutes instead of every 6-8 minutes.
More frequent service will operate in the evening.
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22 minutes ago, limitednyc said:
that what it was before the spring service cuts.
They were restored recently.
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4 minutes ago, SevenEleven said:
It's 48 XD60s to Hale, 29 to Flatbush and 31 to Quill. Quill should lose about half their allotment to Flatbush, once the XE60s are delivered.
I believe that’s out the door now. Quill has lost half of their allotment these past few to Hale and they’re down to 13 new XD60S, which would most likely be displaced by the XE60S later this year. Things may change but judging from the numbers this is probably the most logical thing that may happen.
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I’m my own fantasy land
FB would get B100, 47, and B9
ENY would get the B6 or split it with UP
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1 hour ago, Around the Horn said:
7649 and 7650 are unwrapped from SBS... Reportedly 7633 is also unwrapped but I haven't seen it yet.
Those two were reported a while ago.
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7 minutes ago, jolusoji said:
What happened to the XD60s in the Bronx?I saw some of them in Eastchester Depot!!
Storage, and wouldn't be surprised if they're there to be repaired before being transferred for service in Brooklyn and Queens.
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has gotten worse since the 1990’s where bus speeds were on average. It’s totally horrendous now and it’s time for them to finally address the issue.
Declines in express, local bus ridership
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Why would you go to kings plaza when you have the gateway mall, like, literally, right, there? convenience? You do realize that parking in KP isn’t free? Opposed to Gateway? Again you’re spending money on things you don’t have to.
On top of that I live by KP and I personally don’t need to go to gateway because KP is a better option because I haven several bus lines that go directly there, even coming home from work.
Now if you used an example such as someone going to work during rush hour, explain to me why would a person always take a Lyft or Uber when they literally charge more during those times? Even going to another borough such as manhattan or to an airport they charged very high. I can get to the city or another borough for $2.75 opposed to paying $6-60.