Lil 57

Got of the 7:00 Ferry at 7:30. Every bus left expect for the 2 that I can take (and many more people) to get home (S44 and S46) It's 7:52 and none of the 2 has showed up. Guess we're dealing with packed buses at 8 PM. Oh, the S44 decided to show up at 7:52 PM. SMH

One thing I noticed is even though SI has the biggest Express Bus Network and most heavily used in the City. It has the least routes running off-peak. (Except on Sundays when the BM's don't run.)

The 3c has less service to Staten Island on Sundays. (Used to be every 30 mins until 7:45 PM than 8:30, 9:30, 10:00 and 10:30) Now it's every 55-60 mins after 5:30 PM until 10:20 PM.

I just Realized something. Remember when the MTA said there was 60-68 more SI Express Bus trips weekends. Well those 60 trips are all SIM2 Trips. So they did little to nothing to add service on the other off-peak routes.

The Local buses are worse🤣

I noticed that the is placing "Customers Count" Surveys at every seat of their buses.

Makes sense. Better to have the service.

Question: Why do some bus routes in NYC continue to serve destinations when everything is closed. For example, Why does the S46 continue to serve West Shore Plaza during Late Nights when It's closed and there are no residents below the SIE. (Maybe for the people that are staying in the Hotels on South Ave, but they have a free ferry shuttle and I don't think that ridership comes from the hotels.) Wouldn't it make sense and save money by truncating the S46 to Marines Harber late nights? The same thing goes with the S40 serving Matrix Park during the late nights. It's closed. Ending them at their old terminal would also make sense during the late nights. (I also think the S44/94, S59 and S79 should also run on Marsh Ave when the Mall is closed. Makes a lot more sense.)

I found a video of the M15 SBS machines not working during the late nights. All credit goes to Brlanmercy1022 for making this video.

Sometimes on SI there would be the 2nd bus passing the 1st late bus. And then the late bus would refuse to pass the 2nd bus and drive a little behind them.

Yeah, It's also more stressful when 2 buses come at once, you hop in the first one, but the bus behind it passes you and gets to your destination 5-10 minutes before your bus gets there. Sometimes the B/O is driving so slow that the next bus comes flying by.

I guess the would have to turn the SBS machines off on Weekends so people don't accidentality buy a ticket.

I remember a few months ago on a Sunday Night, I boarded an S46 at the Ferry and the bus was so crowded that the B/O didn't pick up anyone after the Ferry. We only stopped at S96 stops to Port Richmond.

Just saw an SIM22 signed up as a X22 at the ETC 😂

Finally an SI route. I'm a bit confused why they chose the S40/90 corridor instead of the other North Shore routes, (The S44/94, S46/96, and S48/98) all have higher ridership than S40/90). Maybe it has to do with the North Shore BRT being planned or that Richmond Terrace is easier to turn into an SBS corridor than the other corridors.

The other cool that about Subway time is that you can also look at your phone before even walking in, to know if you should take the train or not. BusTime and Subway Time are Lifesavers when planning your trip.

Some of the service changes on the website can be very confusing. So the SIM1c is running via 7th and Lexington?

I think the S94 says SI MALL in one flash and then YUKON AVE in another while the S44 just says SI MALL, YUKON AVE.

You can get a different destination reading depending on the type of bus also. For example, SBS wrapped S79 buses (expect for bus #4278) say STATEN ISLAND MALL. While 4278 and other unwrapped buses on the S79 say, SI MALL.

The buses that went from Yukon to CS for the summer are back at Yukon. (4126 still has the CS sticker on it😂)

Not always, some routes that were eliminated didn't need to be cut. The X13/16/18 routes might of not had that much ridership but that was because the didn't know how to run those routes properly. There were tons of late/missing buses and there were a lot of B/Os that didn't even know the routes. People started to say enough with this and just went to other routes that were more reliable. That pretty much doomed the X13/16/18 routes and they were put on the chopping block when the service cuts came around.

Yep😂 The smoke coming out the exhaust pipe was so much that when the bus was idling, you could barely see anything outside the window. When we all got off at the ETC, we have to cover our face so we wouldn't inhale all the smoke.

They finally got the blue signs on the LFS's for the S79. The Bay Ridge destination sign is shown in reverse so instead of, "BAY RIDGE, 86 ST STATION" it says, "86 ST STATION, BAY RIDGE" causing some of the buses to not show up on BusTime.

So I got on bus #4125 on the S79 and that thing was smoking. Big clouds of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. At the ETC and the bus is OOS and the FDNY is here.

The moved the SIM6, 10 and 31 stop to 41st from 43rd. (Old X1, 7, 9 stop) Lets see if that helps...