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Kew Gardens doesn't make any sense either. They aren't going to change jack after this final plan since they claim that west of QCC has "greater ridership". My guess for them rerouting it to Briarwood is so that it can still be based out of JA. It would be horrible to base it out of QV. QV is way too far and they can't do street reliefs since it goes nowhere near QV. Jamaica is the better option and schedules have decreased on the Q75 in favor of greater service on the Q30 so I don't see why it can't be based out of JA.

From what nova said, they are closing their plant in 2025 which fits their deadline. However, I don't know if the contract is binding and if the MTA still wants the buses since it's not really useful at this point.

Looks like it's a New Flyer Monopoly

9360 delivered to Eastchester

Isn’t the metro card RTS based out of JG?? And originally JG was planned to get XD40s for the L shuttle so they can perfectly handle diesels.

Also looks like nova is out of the running for future orders since the MTA stated "Nova Bus ultimately withdrew its proposal prior to submitting a Best and Final Offer ('BAFO') as it decided to close its US manufacturing facility."

the B57 still has to be finalized under Brooklyn Bus Redesign so I highly doubt it would be sent over to BC... "Note that trips involving Q8, Q24, Q59, Q68, B53, B57, and B62 may not show accurate travel times, since those routes will still be reviewed and finalized under the Brooklyn Redesign."

There isn't really anywhere else you can assign the B57 to except Grand ave.

Little Neck is around 20 minutes since they can't use cross Island parkway and have to go down LNP. If they really wanted the 75 to interline with the other union routes, they would have sent it to Kew Gardens, not Briarwood.

This seems a bit more reasonable in my opinion.

Why would QV get the Q75? The proposed Q75 is the same schedule as the existing Little Neck branch of the existing Q30 with service cuts to capacitate the service increases of the proposed Q30. Adding on, it's a 30-minute deadhead to Briarwood from QV and a 20-minute deadhead to Little Neck. Not at all reasonable whatsoever. I don't get the bs argument of depots owning streets such as "QV owning Hillside Ave and Union Turnpike"

In my opinion, if they want a bus route to go to Briarwood via 188th, they should keep the existing Q30 intact and have the QCC "branch" be the one heading to Briarwood. Like you said, I don't get why they are overemphasizing QCC, there is barely any ridership over there except when school is dismissed. They can run a few school trippers on the Q30 if necessary.

I have to agree with this here. I find it stupid that they are desperately trying to cut the Q30 back to QCC instead of Little Neck. The QCC loop shouldn't even exist for the Q30. There is no point and no one even uses it except Cardozo High School kids.

I don't get why they keep trying to cut the Q30 back to QCC. It's pointless.

I know for sure they are cutting the Q30 in favor of a full Horace Harding route or a route that doesn't go to Jamaica. They did it in V1 and V2 and they will 100% do it in V3.

Only the roofline was repainted.

Well, the meetings are for stakeholders only. Community/customer input will be done later.

It's probably going to be updated when they release the plan on Monday or Tuesday and it's for stakeholders only. I'm ready for the stupidity about to come from the plan.

I've noticed that Flatbush has been taking the front vianovas and leaving the rear ones.

Is this it? If so, I think this is some fantasy proposal made by some random person.

What I’m saying is that I don’t know if the DOB wants to make operations more efficient by having Jamaica use their own buses for training rather than using Grand Ave’s or ENY’s. Fleet uniformity doesn’t really impact efficiency.

That makes no sense considering LGA needs loans from Stengel and those xcelsiors aren't leaving Stengel... There is really no point whatsoever... You are correct about this. However, from what I've seen, it looks like Jamaica doesn't have enough XD40s to train so they use 2019 XD40s from Grand Avenue (especially 7825) and the select bus service XD40s from ENY (especially 7661 and 7663). At some points, I've seen them using Fresh Pond buses and XN40s from Gleason. I don't exactly know if the DOB wants to make operations more efficient.

The official training buses (used for new operator training) were switched from NGs to XD/XN40s. Eastchester had neither and from the looks of it, they didn't want to use the 2015 XD40s. So they decided to have Gun Hill help supply Eastchester along with West Farms. Allegedly it's a temporary swap until Eastchester gets all of their XD40s. Based on the allotments, it looks like Eastchester is getting more than they need so it helps explain that Eastchester will take over training in the future.

Is Jamaica expected to go full Nova Bus in the near-future?

ENY doesn't need an extra bus. As the people above have stated, it will either go to Quill or Brooklyn or Jamaica. It really depends if the DOB wants Jamaica to return the Castleton buses they got as compensation.