Don Brown

Perhaps to connect it to the NJ turnpike. Make a new freeway to connect it all to 42nd or 59th street.

They did come a long way, we have to admit.

Should the Port Authority build a new bridge or tunnel to connect from Manhattan to West NY in NJ to relieve congestion to and from the city on the existing tunnels and the GWB? Any thoughts?

As we all know, until a few years ago, we used to have MTA Long Island bus that served much of long island (mostly Nassau and Queens) and was replaced by NICE bus after a major falling out of funding between then republican county executive Ed Mangano and then MTA chairman Jay Walder. Long Island bus's main objective (and now carried over to NICE) was to supplement the Long Island Railroad and provide transfers to other parts of the region, not served by the trains. Why is it then, that the MTA never done the same with the Metro North Railroad? Particularly in the upstate NY side of things? I guess the closest thing we have to that would be the Bee Lines bus system, but won't it make more since under the MTA umbrella?

It just dawned on me that Bee Lines has a relatively old bus fleet now, with half of it being mostly Orion 5s and a few Orion 7 OG hybrids. Any plans to replace those remaining DD50 Orion Vs and the Cummins ISM units as well?

I take that since the R32s and R42s are now all retired, the R211 family is going to only kill off the remaining R44s (SIR) and the R46s with the rest going towards fleet expansion?

What was the point of retiring those 2007 model OG hybrids anyway? Those buses aren't that old at all and the MTA isn't really known to retire buses at the 12-13 year mark (unless they are CNGs).

It's now year 9 for NICE bus.

Someone on yt a while back also reported that #1648 was parked at MF depot. Not sure what the status of these buses are, but the tanks should be done.

NICE just got a another new XN40. 2021 model XN40 #1980 is assigned to MF.