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Recently spotted 577 on W45 at New Rochelle, signed up as one of those Pelhamdale Avenue-bound school trippers.

So...how much lottery jackpot money NY/America wants to bring back 7-day a week, 5 AM to Midnight, half-hourly, full time, $5.50 per trip BxM4C bus service?

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2 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

After your claim about missing the so-called "last Q44 of the night". I have doubts when it comes to any sort of credibility with your constant complaints.

Not my fault no one else on this forum uses the Brewer Blvd routes often enough to understand.

Scenario: Sinkhole or huge water main break takes out all of 149-Concourse out of service (can’t let any  or  trains anywhere near it).

I wonder how often Lexington Express trains just bolt out of GCT n/b or 125 St s/b nowadays...because I’m loving every second of it. I have to wonder if it’d be possible to increase the limit out of 125 St n/b for trains going towards 138/Concourse...I know that part’s still really slow.

Hot Take: Considering the Rockaways & the adjacent areas to the east of Far Rockaway are deceivingly so close, yet so far to navigate in & out of...this isn’t the worst idea I’ve seen.

Then again, I’m just here holding my breath until a speculated extension of the Q52 to Far Rockaway somehow happens...probably not.

On 9/26/2019 at 6:35 PM, T to Dyre Avenue said:

Same here about having a third weekend 6th Avenue service. Though I’ve posted in the past about it being the . But I would be fine with the weekend  being made a permanent service.

Why not both? *assuming we’re anywhere close to anything that idealistic in the next hundred years*

If that  train somehow did end up on 8th Avenue (which I doubt), where would it have even terminated?

Seeing the Redesign Map Proposal, I sure hope the Co-Op City plans & Locust Point/Country Club proposals do not go through at all. Those set off a bunch of red flags for me.

I am all for the straightening of the Bx36 though (then again, doing so results in this ripple effect that affects the Bx11, Bx35, and Bx40/42).

One idea I would pitch for the Bx6 SBS being rerouted away from Hunts Point Market though...instead of just terminating it at the shopping center at Story Avenue & White Plains Road...why not possibly extend it further east to the Throggs Neck Shopping Center & Monsignor Scanlan High School (using Lafayette Avenue between Brush Avenue & Hutchinson River Parkway Service Road as the terminus & layover point)?

One thing I realized is that NICE lowkey got rid of headway management on the n31/32 & n40 for the Summer, but hasn’t brought it back, probably hoping to pretend their failure of an attempt to fix their system didn’t exist in the first place.

As a regular user of the n31/n32, I can tell you right now, the last bus for the next hour stranding nearly twenty passengers doesn’t paint a pretty picture at all.

Now all this new schedule on the n31/32 has done is create a nice big 85 minute gap in n32 service on the PM evening shoulder, instead of actually alternating between each variant consistently throughout the entire day of operation. This just gets better & better. 😂

Imagine nearly an hour gap in service on two limited stop routes with a combined headway of 12 minutes, because the amount of fare evasion on said routes is so rampant, the routes are basically neglected & left for dead.

30+ people waiting at each stop in Jamaica too.

All that’s left is to use O7’s instead of XD60’s & you’ve completed the recipe.

I also forgot there’s one other route that got eliminated in the past few years. The Lynbrook-Oceanside-Freeport route, n36

Wonder if a restoration of that would be warranted someday...

And, slightly off-topic, I’ve always wondered if there was ever a one-seat ride bus route that went between Hicksville & Freeport, even way back in the day...

...apparently, there was something that looks like if it were extended further down the two routes it was a hybrid of...it could’ve been...

According to Wikipedia, there used to be a school days-only route (called the n67) that seemed to start somewhere along the n40 line in Roosevelt/Uniondale, then shifted over to the n49 line, terminating at a high school somewhere along Newbridge Road (maybe 5 or so minutes away from Hicksville LIRR/Broadway Mall).

Does Liberty Lines hire dispatchers these days? They could use someone with a brain & some self-respect.

8:31 PM & 8:41 PM n/b Q44 buses are a no-show tonight. GG

2 hours ago, NY1635 said:

The only routes I see coming back are weekend service on the n27, n36, n45, n50, and n72 to Babylon at some capacity. 

The county would rather recombine the n20G/H back into the n20 for the convenience of Hicksville/East Meadow Residents, and college students who love their one seat ride into Queens. The problem still remains of what to do with the n20 between Roslyn Clock Tower, and Hicksville when the semester is over. The n20H runs nonstop between Glen Cove Road and Broadway Mall because the people who live there don't want bus service. 

Considering NICE likes to update schedules every season, one idea that could possibly work is keeping the 30-minute headways on the n20H as-is...except during the Summer, when you could probably get away with making them hourly until having to restore half-hourly levels for the school year.

As far as all the south shore routes that have been eliminated, at least one of them has to come back. But...if they were to be restored to at least rush hour & midday levels...the n19 has to get midday service restored too (otherwise, you’re pretty much taking a north to south route with nothing to connect to on the south shore).

Now...between the n45, n46, n50, n51, and n73 (or shoot, even the n87)...not so sure which one of these routes (if only one) would be best fit for restoration...even if just a single bus was all that was reallocated during the day for said restoration.

At the very least, I would consider the two things NICE Bus of all places has, yet Bee-Line doesn’t...sufficient Sunday service & overnight service.

Here’s what I would generally change for each route:

W1 - The branches stop running maybe an hour or so too early on the n/b side. Plus, if Bee-Line were to take a page from NICE, the branches should just have distinct numbers & thus be allowed to transfer between.

W4 - Sunday service ends a bit too early as it stands (even with fairly recent added evening service).

W5 - Combining the last weekday n/b trip from Yonkers to Odell Avenue with the last n/b trip from White Plains to Harrison, into a full-length Yonkers to Harrison is definitely a step in the right direction. Now if only they’d beef up Sunday service to Saturday’s levels.

W6 - Increasing Sunday service to at least hourly could do this route some good.

W7 - Evening service suddenly dropping to hourly from half-hourly isn’t so sightly tbh

W12 - I have to wonder how much longer this route could really last, in terms of maintaining service outside of hours...especially given how SUNY Purchase & Manhattanville College have their own shuttles to begin with.

W13 - I wouldn’t really change much here, aside from...I have to wonder what’s become of the idea of possibly putting artics on the route again in the future...

W14 - I would not keep service at hourly headways. Half-hourly (while more convenient) would probably be a bit excessive...but I wouldn’t keep it at current service levels.

W16 - *squints at unsightly three hour gap in service east of JV during weekday PM rush hours*

W20 - This route has more of a runtime distribution issue. Not enough time during weekdays & Sundays, a bit too much time on Saturdays. The weekday n/b W20X trips during the PM rush should probably become W21 trips, so people who want to go to CCSC can stop boarding & overcrowding the wrong trips.

W25 - I’ve been keeping a watchful eye on this route on Google Maps Live Arrival lately. And...I’m not happy. Runtimes are not enough. Late night weekday service finds the only two buses in circulation going back & forth between Yonkers & Bronx RIGHT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. You must be out of your mind to want to wait an hour (if not more) for the W25 at 9/10 PM or so. But hey, at least this allows the 40+ minute late driver to “extend” service to run until past midnight~ /sarcasm

W28 - Restore to pre-2009 levels & pricing. /thread

W40 - n/b weekday service becomes infrequent a bit too early & too abruptly. I would also consider having more trips (maybe every other trip) terminate in the Bronx regularly.

W42 - Truncating most service to 241 St? Not smart. You miss connections with the W25, W26, and Bx31 by doing that.

W45 - Half hourly service all-day would do a huge solid for this route (weekdays & Saturdays). Maybe increase the current Sunday service level to the current Saturday level.

W55 - Infrequent, not enough runtime per trip during rush hours. Increasing to 20 minute headways would help a ton.

W60 - I would keep 40 ft buses off this route during rush hours. And probably have more Sunday service going towards White Plains (4:20 PM being the last n/b departure out of Fordham on Sundays is simply way too early).

W62 - I feel like the current number of s/b trips is probably not enough (nor are they scheduled sensibly).

W66 - I’m legitimately surprised this route has been seemingly immune to cuts/elimination, given it’s ridership levels (from what I’ve seen since I use it pretty often).

W78 - This route is the perfect example of how Sunday service SHOULD be. In the midst of all the barebones service (if any) on most routes on Sundays, this one trooper stays strong. Also, they finally updated the rollsign program for Central Avenue-bound trips.

W91 - This route is the perfect opportunity for a Limited Stop year-round service to help out the W7 & W42.

Craziest sighting ever! At, 4:18 PM on Popham Road just east of downtown Scarsdale, #820 was on a W66 heading towards New Rochelle, closely following #704 on W63C to White Plains. I was on #223 on a Dobbs Ferry-bound W66 when spotted them. Really wish I could’ve gotten a photo/video.

Judging by the W66 timetable, #820 was either an extra trip put-in...or just 20 minutes late.

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Funny...the current weekday midday/evening ridership & frequency on the n20H is a damned if you, damned if you don’t scenario.

Having it every 30 minutes as of now results in a convenient amount of service...but buses with maybe 15-20 passengers (if that) at most per bus.

Changing it to once every hour...would make in less room for error by barely missing a bus...but now you’ve freed up buses to use elsewhere (maybe to restore service on even just one of the many southeast Nassau County routes that got eliminated back in 2016-2017).

2 hours ago, Italianstallion said:

They're scheduled at 8:12 and 8:32. Looks like the first one left 5 minutes early for some reason.

Wrong. 8:07, 8:25, 8:42. 

I propose either a bus route from City Island to New Rochelle. Or, increasing W45 service to once every 15 minutes between Pelham Bay Park & New Rochelle, ALL DAY LONG.

This sissy lala butt of a Bx29 driver just made me miss the last W45 for the next hour, because he decided to step out of the bus for goodness knows why, one stop away from the Shore Road transfer point.

A 30 minute trip from the busiest transit hub in Eastern Bronx really does not need to take two hours & more than one bus.

Any particular reason why departures out of Far Rockaway on the are 8:07 PM then 8:34 PM tonight? Just couldn’t be assed to have something in between?