Q101 E Midtown

Yes they train you to get the CDL B. They even help you get the permit if you don't have it.

I'll look into in July. I hear one of the stipulations is that you have to live in NJ for the training. If that's true, then my next step would be to getr a CDL permit by the start of September.

Yeah just bring a drivers abstract and your license. The north holds a class everyweek for training.

I hear they train you for the CDL, is that true?

Cant go through the holland tunnel. I member seeing a memo saying we couldnt go through even if we were detoured.

But then if the Lincoln Tunnel were not a reasonable option, they'd have to go through Brooklyn.

Nice. Is it possible to do Private operators' code with NJT Buses? Not that I'm asking to do so.

I stopped by GWB Bus Station and the Bridge Plaza across the Hudson to check out the 11C and 20/84. The crowd for the 11C was huge! Also, I notice the Bridge Plaza is a main trip generator for all buses to and from GWB.

From what's been discussed these past few pages, it might just be a matter of time.

http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/upcoming/T0119.pdf

 

Well the 119 will be expanding bus service with the Pulaski  closing thats two things one more servic along central ave and another option other than 10 to go on in case the other is crowded. I wonder if these extra service would perminate even after the reopening of the southbound skyway bc if i was NJT i would need to keep this kind of scedule just to appese the central ave folks you know

Actually, you're not allowed to do 119 trips entirely south of Journal Sq, so you're still stuck with the 10 along JFK Blvd...although...wasn't the 99S running 24/7 at one point?

My question with Academy is: What's with the 5xx numbers I see on the destination sign? I know there was one sign saying 519 Port Authority.

I have a question. Why is it that Union City has more reverse peak service than in the peak direction? The main exception I've seen to this rule (aside from the buses that serve Hudson County beyond 30th/31st Streets is the 190.

What?

Sorry, that was meant to be read as "slow as hell."

My issue with the jitney is they can be some as hell. When I was fanning the 190, it wasn't uncommon for my bus to pass one of two jitneys along Main St.

If you ask me a separate local is needed, but part of that is foaming.

How would you do it?

Not an official map, but the product of a dedicated individual (not me, lol!)

Here you go:  http://www.dougandadrienne.info/njbus/

I use them a lot, but they're more focused on outbound directions and they don't mention the private operations (jitney's aside).

They should try to make an official NJT map divided in two sections at least (South of Toms River and North of Toms River at least, or one if possible), but they'd be really big.

I imagine a more practical alternative, should NJT ever attempt to conceive a bus map concept, would be to do it county by county.

Just saw D4500 on 166T going northbound on a Saturday. I hope this stays consistent because saturday express buses get packed... I really hope they would add some more express on this line... 

The 167 could use more D4500s at night

So, I managed to fan the 197 for the first time to Warwick and back. Rode on 8313 from Willowbrook Mall to Warwick NY, then caught the 22:00 to PABT. The driver pointed out that the transmission kept failing on him through. The further you ride it away from NYC, the fewew stoplights you see.

Speak of the devil... I was talking about an old article, but apparently the

 

First off, I must say that I have no sympathy for the woman who urinated herself. I truly doubt she waited in excess of an hour, as many suburbanites do (further north in Westchester as an example). In fact, I'm sure she waited under 30 minutes.

 

Then what I find hilarious is that the article mentions the cut of the QBx1, yet fails to mention both the Bx23 and Q50.

 

I wonder if that was intentional.

On this matter, in the MTA, I might make concessions in returning the Bx26 to its pre-2010 route (for those who commute closer to Allerton Avenue, and that would be as far as it goes.

At one point, the Bx20 was apart of the M100.

And the current Bx7 was the original Bx10 with an extension to 168 St. If I could go back in time, I would have loved to fan the M100 as it was in 1969, along with perhaps the TB/M35/Bx21. 

I remember in the Bee-Line/CTTransit/etc thread, someone mentioned extending the Bx9 to Getty Square as an alternative to running the BL-1 or BL-2 overnight. I think it would not be a bad idea (assuming BL-1/2 overnight service is eve less feasible), provided between midnight and 5am.  It would probably add around 20-30 mins round-trip. Only I don't know if every late night trip (about 40-45 minutes) ot every other one(80-90 minutes) should serve South Broadway.

Me personally I have never seen so much traffic along Broadway to justify what I see as an unnecessary re-route from a commercial corridor to a more residential one.

That's because Broadway along that portion (or at least from 225 to 230th) is wider. But the worst intersections of traffic along Broadway in the Bronx from what I've seen are along 231st, 225th(along the left turn lane southbound), and 230th. I don't think it's a bad idea to reroute the Bx7 and Bx20 via Target, but checkmatechamp's proposal, I believe would be better.

Here's another of mine. The B81. It's basically a local version of the BM1 east of Flatbush Avenue, but with a northern terminus at the Flatbush Avenue station.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212211713696079447579.0004d6a4bfc06381bb9d4&msa=0&ll=40.630565,-73.921337&spn=0.034328,0.077162

Just make it in Google Earth then upload the KMZ to Maps.

 What's KMZ

I'll just leave this right here...

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=212211713696079447579.0004d58ba58f5315f948d

to be honest If the  W4 went crosstown on nereid ave then it can
continue to pelham via sandford and E 3rd to 5th ave it would link to
the which folks hate for manhattan trips but it would allow the bee-line to
axe the W54 and W53. Sadly I think too many people use it to the for that to work. Bx34 extension could eat up the 53 instead as it would be more unique.

The W4 is best left alone. Anyone from the
who needs to go to Yonkers can use the 25. Besides, sending the 4 to
Nereid and points east means there's no direction link from Bedford Park
to South Broadway, which is very important for those who don't want to
use the to the 1/2 combo.

In view of the new Williamsburg route to LI City, why do you guys think MTA doesn't have it going to Manhattan as proposed 4-5 years earlier?

I'd say just add stops along Cortelyou, at the very least one at the train station.

I think another one should also be added at Flatbush.