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5 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

.....huh? What do you mean reworked?

Delivery of those buses is supposed to start between this month and next month.

oh I see, yea a rumor went around that the LFSes were on hold because of the HEV order not being completed.

4 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:

They are in the system as Kingsbridge buses.

9833 is already at Kingsbridge.

Do you happen to know the new allotment for LFS Hevs or no?

42 minutes ago, Novabus 5000 said:

The Bx39 is in fact going to GH.

 

1532 delivered to Baisley Park.

Dang, the Bx39 is literally getting passed around every depot like hot poato

I actually thought that the NGs was a sign of GH getting the Bx31 or Bx8.

49 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

Is that confirmed to Gun Hill and why would GH need NG?

HEV option order coming to them very soon.

UPDATE: 3831 returned back to Mother Clara Hale Depot

 

It’s for the Winter Pick iirc

I know mta bus likes different specs on their buses so it would be interesting if they got Allison Novas. That’s a sight I would love to see.

Just now, limitednyc said:

They are, w

Who else.

Just eastchester so far, it’s about 25 electrics.

9 minutes ago, limitednyc said:

Just a educated guess, ech 25

BP 50 and 60 jfk/far.

That’s a good guess. Remember that ECH is on the table to receive electrics (I just remembered)

I can definitely see them going to eastchester. Those NGs have seen better days…

1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:

We're still going to have a bus shortage no matter what. And considering we shouldn't be cutting service when ridership is coming back, it's the best solution, especially on the express side.

Some of those 2002 MCI's are good runners and don't give the depot much trouble (for example 2910). Not to mention MTA can't order more buses right now since they already did all the options from Prevost. 

Although the I like the idea, why not pull out some of the 2007 CLs out of retirement if they were to take that route?

Noticed these disappeared from ttmg roster, but @SevenElevencan you confirm?

7049, 7065, 7076, and 2716 are retired.

The Morris Park Annoucements have been updated, they no longer say Morris PK and now say Park.

10 minutes ago, Snorunts said:

Oh lord, this is serious. 

It also means that the 9 3Gs that are either pending or scrapped have replacements. Wonder what else Castleton will get and what the Bronx will get in return, because QV got next gens

I know there was some moves earlier this week, I assume they have to do with ida but with that, how many in total were flooded? And how many aren’t coming back?

1 hour ago, EastFlatbushLarry said:

not for nothing, and I'm not calling myself or the author of the tweet an expert, but if anyone has ever owned a vehicle of any kind, you know for a fact that all it takes is driving thru a couple of inches of water to completely destroy an engine or transmission. so, if these 30 Castleton units (letalone ANY MTA buses) were in fact driven thru any amount of rain water (flooding), it would be safe to assume that the units in question are finished... as in totally destroyed. it's not worth any time or money to repair flooded vehicles. 

I know there was a few buses flooded up the the height of the rear area (the step up area in the bus) so I wonder if those are done too

3 minutes ago, SevenEleven said:

Castleton has no power to the building right now. They only started the storm cleanup this morning. 

I see

3 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

7047 out of Castelton was the bus that got flooded. 

I see, yea I thought some buses in the depot or the depot maintenance area got flooded  got flooded because a lot of buses were getting shifted around

Question, did Castleton get flooded? I know they were in the bullseye and a lot of buses are moving out of Castleton to other depots for maintenance.

2 hours ago, Snorunts said:

I'm wondering the same thing but with the XN40s...and instead of a squealing sound, it's more like a ringing sound (like the Orion V CNGs).

Yea it’s weird, some buses make it some don’t

Question, why do some C40LFs make a squealing sound? I noticed when I used to take the Bx21 it would be 50/50 chance if it would do that or not. I also ridden a bus where the noise cut out suddenly and then came back a few minutes later.

Why on the BxM6 when you heading towards Parkchester the buses have to drive down bronx river avenue and make a u turn back up? There’s a ramp straight onto the cross Bronx and once I been on a bus through that ramp with no problems.

2 hours ago, SevenEleven said:

Nah, it was an 86, a Castleton bus. I spoke to the operator who had the bus yesterday. 

So maybe 8699?

1 hour ago, Cait Sith said:

That's normal, the decals get applied at the vendor(s).

9724(if this was already reported, disregard), 9739, 9750, 9752, 9773 assigned to Manhattanville, currently in NJ.

And up to 9590 is built.

That’s great to hear, how many novas have been built so far?

4 hours ago, NoHacksJustKhaks said:

Yeah lol, I imagine these trains were in transport to (or at) NJ before that Subchat announcement was made on the 211's. 

We were all wrong though, seems that the feat has been pulled off! 

DJ Hammers (and two other channels, Mr. Railfan and ihasbeencensored) apparently caught it. Huge surprise

Yesterday DJ Hammers actually mentioned he would be premiering a special delivery at 10:30 on his community tab in Youtube. Perhaps they're doing it to build up hype, seems better to premiere it at 10:30, compared to releasing the video when nobody's awake. 

Youtube premieres are pretty popular these days and most Youtuber's I watch have done at least one of them. FWIW, They aren't deleted after a while so you can watch them later on if you really need to.    

 

Probably unrelated but they did it like that so everyone could get a equal share of views instead of just 1 person getting all the views

Just now, MysteriousBtrain said:

That was the original route at one point. Might as well make it permanent since the bus lane is what they use most times.

I see, that makes sense. They should make it permanent.

Why do the BxM6-10 run along 2nd avenue to 86th Street? This happens very consistently and if they keep on taking this route, why don’t permanently reroute it this way?