DaTransitMan4608

It actually is. Two PM school trippers are assigned artics since the 99 runs past a bunch of different schools. They don't send the artics into Branch Brook. Those trippers either terminate at Union Ave in Belleville (N/B) or Beth Israel Hospital (S/B).

Yes, those 2020-21 MCIs belong to them now. Whether or not you see them a lot depends on where you are, as I've seen the bulk of them on Blvd East (165, 166, 168) or along Teaneck Road (167/177). The garage can't hold 45' buses. But they're not using it right now since it was flooded out by Ida. They're using Garden State Plaza to stage everything, plus they're getting help from Meadowlands and Fairview IINM. However before Ida, they were making do with the space they had to squeeze what they could in that space.

Well idk what's gonna happen with this one, but I am very eager to see what's gonna happen with the 317. I would be very surprised if it doesn't get split in some fashion.

Not a loan or anything of the sort. Fairview has a few 9000s now on account of having to retire some of their oldest D4000s.

*20849-20891 - Fairview. That should fill out Fairview's ~43 artic total.

20848 is at Big Tree. I expect 20846 and 20849 to follow if 846 is not there already. 20897 and possibly 20900 are at CMF.

20847 to Big Tree 20896 to Meadowlands

A few New Flyer moves today. 20825 to Hilton from Big Tree 20845 to Big Tree from Meadowlands 20880 to Fairview from Hilton 20893 has arrived at Meadowlands

Gotta check again tomorrow for confirmation, but it seems like Hilton may have a new artic run on the 107, and this one doesn't turn into a 126. It instead goes to PABT as a 107L and then deadheads back to Hilton around 9am.

It's tough to tell. Meadowlands got some pieces of the 156/158/159 recently, so those buses may not have left there just yet.

Well let's start off with the fact that this guy pretty much rode a bus at 7:45am on a Sunday. Maybe no one was on it because half of whatever ridership that's on that line was I dunno sleeping.

Here's some updated new bus assignments: Fairview: New Flyers 20850-20867 (so far) Meadowlands: New Flyers 20845-20849 Howell: 2021 MCI D4500CTs - 21030, 21032, 21043 Ironbound: 2021 MCI D4500CTs - 21003-21005, 21011, 21029

No Neoplans will be going to Lakewood.

I remember this too. It's one of a few times Academy got caught playing fast and loose with NJT's buses. Question is, will this be the last straw?

Some of them (Egg Harbor's 7100) have been retired already.

They may hold onto it similar to how Meadowlands still has 20801. I assume these are also going to Fairview, no? Also per FB, the 1 and weekday 70 are now running with articulated buses on certain runs.

Funny thing is they arrived not even 8-9 hours after I posted this. 20822 has returned to Hilton. I'm guessing what happened was they had an issue with 20810 and borrowed 20822 for a short time. It's back at Hilton now.

They have run on there. Meadowlands has runs on each of Fairview's lines except the 154. That's a Meadowlands bus. Fairview only has 20810. Their portion of the order will arrive after Meadowlands gets their 25 buses.

I'm assuming in respect to garage space, driver/mechanic training, route training. These garages have never had MCIs like the rest. The garage out of the two he mentioned that have NY routes is Hilton (107 & 108).

It is, but that doesn't mean they should do it. If a line terminates near or at a garage, it doesn't necessarily mean it should belong to said garage. Especially in Orange's case given that the 88 has historically been a motorcoach line and they have no space to store any MCIs there. Also, keep in mind that whether this line or any other DeCamp line ends up being taken over hinges on NJT getting the federal funding they have been asking for to keep them operating the way they are now.

I can see that too. Question is, if that happens which garage is gonna take it? The 88 is unique in that it begins/terminates in Orange/East Orange, which I guess could put it in Hilton territory.

It seems Big Tree's portion of the New Flyer order is done. They now have 20825-20844. Meadowlands has 20845 & 20846.

1. Ridership past the garage (toward Clifton) isn't that heavy. The 13 carries the heaviest between Belleville and Newark. Pre-covid, it used to be one of the buses that carried the schoolkids between the residential areas and downtown to the private school (can't remember where exactly it is, I just know that when I've taken it in the afternoon around 2-3 I've been on 13Ns where I've seen ridership begin to drop off the closer to the bus garage it got, namely after the bus crosses the Newark/Belleville border at Washington Ave & Mill St. I can't necessarily speak on the 13C as that's the only branch I haven't been on yet. 2. I agree with this. You could even rebrand the current 13M to be the 13M North Newark Verona Ave via Mt. Prospect Ave. as opposed to it just running up Broadway to Verona Ave and looping around to terminate at Mill St. Usually the 27F (the branch that serves Mt. Prospect all the way to Forest Hill) tends to be extremely crowded (well....used to be), so running some of the 13s up that way would help alleviate some of that crowding on the 27s going to Bloomfield or Delawanna.

9530 & 9531 to Fairview. 20827-20835, 20836, & 20838 to Big Tree 9536 may have been transferred or scrapped, as it hasn't been on the 39 as of late. Which if this is true, indicates there are no more Neoplans at Hilton.

Okay a lot of changes to make here. 9528 & 9533 to Fairview 20059-20119 to Ironbound 20801 - Meadowlands. 20802-20809, 20811-20824 to Hilton, the only remaining Neoplans at Hilton are 9531 & 9536. Anything that hasn't been retired was sent to Big Tree. 20825, 20826 & 20831 to Big Tree.