TheTransitKing

4 hours ago, Autocar said:

It's a very sad day that the end of the RTS Era has arrived.  It only proves my theory that the NYCT still lives by the credo of "Scrap First and Ask Questions Later ". They never learn. The reporter who wrote the now infamous article about the RTS model buses in my opinion belongs in prison and the Transit Executives who are responsible for pulling perfectly serviceable buses from doing what they were supposed to be doing should join the reporter in jail because they are guilty of Criminal actions.  This is a grave injustice. 

Boy, you extreme foamers just love begging for attention. Since when is writing an article about RTS buses and then scrapping said buses a "Criminal Action". Let me just give you a quick and much-needed trip back to reality...

1) MTA's RTS's have been around for 38 YEARS! FAR longer than any other major transit agency (including MBTA, NJT, SEPTA, etc...)

2) Even if that article never came out, these buses were gonna be gone by the end of the year.

3) Not ALL of those RTS's were "perfectly serviceable"...some were on their last legs...(example: the last RTS #5240 died on its last night)

4) Remember when the Orion V's ran for the last time? Sure we were sad, but we've forgotten about them after a few weeks...

5) Buses are not HUMAN BEINGS, you're sounding like MTA and this reporter committed murder or something.

Instead of whining and complaining, how about celebrating the legacy that these buses had...and as for the "reporters and transit execs going to prison" thing...🙄 What's next? You gonna say that the MTA execs should go to jail for canceling the L train shutdown? (Oops, shouldn't be giving out any ideas lmao).

5 hours ago, Ultimategamer12c said:

Any news on the D60s are the 5 units retired as of tonight?

Nope. 118 is out bright and early on the 

On 12/25/2018 at 4:40 PM, Jdog14 said:

 

Dude relax they will update the boards when they have the chance lol. Right now they're worried about just getting the buses in for the shuttle. 

If the  shuttle even happens... lol

12 hours ago, JeremiahC99 said:

That’s nice. However they should hurry up and retire that bus (along with the other O7 CNGs) because 2019 is happening tomorrow. Last thing we need is a bunch of buses that will become useless with no replacements.

Tbh, they should've sent the best RTS's to WF. Then they could've retired the O7's by the first day of 2019 like they wanted to...

14 hours ago, Calvin said:

The VII CNG tanks are close to their expiration date and WF is in need of buses to cover their total. They're also assigned there (also in use for the L shuttle: if that's the other case)

Those O7's got another few months....(especially the 7800s), I wouldn't be surprised if they can last the first quarter of 2019. Hell, it's incredible that 7685 lasted so long, that it got renumbered.  

Idk if this was already reported but...

4100 (KB) & 8356 (GH) are being loaned to WF, both spotted on the Bx31 all day. 

On 9/8/2018 at 10:18 AM, aemoreira81 said:

Tanks are expiring this month (and some may have expired last month). Any O7 CNG remaining in service is really on borrowed time. Anything below about 7775 or so has to be gone by the end of the month, and the remaining will have a bit more time but must be gone by the end of the year. That is also why the D60HFs in storage are being reactivated---as temporary holds until the remaining XN60s come in. The O7 CNGs have 15-year tanks. I suspect that the current C40LFs and newer CNG buses have 20-year tanks (some may have 25-year tanks), ensuring that the tanks should outlast the bus.

But the part that I'm confused with is that normally there's 240ish 40 foot buses in service at WF. Currently there's around 260ish 40' footers, but when the remaining 90 O7's are retired, that's about 90 buses short. So my question is, what goes in place of those 40' footers? More C40's? I understand that the XN60's are replacing the O7's but those 60' footers aren't gonna see service on the 40' routes. 

I don't know, maybe I'm missing something lol 

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

That new MCI we have, just saw it going north on the New York State Thruway (Central Park Av).

I was hearing that 23 broke down last night. Someone got a pic of it sitting in Midtown between 2-8am with 4 ways on.