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?

On 1/20/2021 at 11:23 PM, R32 3838 said:

I wrote this on my facebook page, I ment to copy and paste to here earlier but my phone died

 

Here's my final R211 predictions

Base order R211A

140 Pitkin (to full to void of the retired R32's and push for the C to be 100% R46 temporarily)

300 Coney Island (to replace the 75% of the R46 fleet)

Base order R211T

20 Jamaica

Option Order (R211T)

Jamaica gets all 640 cars

Option order 2 (R211T)

200 Pitkin

205 concourse (or Coney Island)

32 ENY

R160's from jamaica are split between Coney island and 207th st

207th st would be 100% R160,

8843-9102 (Siemens) I see going to 207th (260 cars)

Whatever R160 at Jamaica would go to CI (380 cars)

130 R179 cars stay at pitkin

8 car R179's goes back to ENY.

Of course this could all be wrong but I think this would make the most sense.

The A would be a mixture of R160 (put ins like the R32's) ,R179 and R211A/T

I would just give 207th the Siemens for the C. 260 cars is more than enough for full C service plus a healthy spare factor. Plus it's all underground and isolates this group of R160's to 1 yard.

Again this is just speculation and A PREDICTION. Don't go extra hard

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? 

On 1/15/2021 at 4:36 PM, MHV9218 said:

All those buses have been retired for more than two weeks.

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).

On 12/2/2020 at 8:56 AM, B35 via Church said:

No question NICE is a lot more dynamic when it comes to trying to cater to its riderbase (at times I think they're labile with it)... MTA OTOH, has always had a rather "hands-off" approach in that category; never looking to make changes over time, for the betterment of the riders in Nassau.... Putting this another way, even though there's 30k+ less riders to consider, NICE has a better scope of what the riderbase is... Whether the main reason for that knowledge is solely budget driven or an actual desire to make bus transit better in Nassau County, who knows....

It's now year 9 for NICE bus.

On 12/20/2020 at 6:37 PM, User said:

I count at least five Orion V CNG buses still at the former Rockville Centre Depot as well as some minibuses all lined up at the south driveway on Banks Ave:

I looked up 1673 on Auctions International and the lots where I think it would have been included did not include 1673:

https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/nassau-mta-9931-9931/page/1

https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/nassau-county-mta-ny-22187-22187/page/1

 

Are these owned by someone else or are they being kept for a reason by NICE? Should we expect to see them auctioned off soon? Any ideas?

Anyone miss these?

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.