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IDK how ppl commute S/B on the Manhattan Bridge routes into Brooklyn regularly, it's so slow. After all these years it's crazy the TA hasn't come up with a more modern way for trains to ID themselves at the tower. Riding from Canal/Grand to Atlantic Ave is a miserable experience, rode an from Canal to Atlantic today and it felt like it took an half hour just to travel between those two stops. When I lived in Flatbush I always hated the S/B run on the from the city into Brooklyn cause of DeKalb Junction. N/B feels much quicker.

Wow. I liked the location of the old terminal cause it was near Reading Terminal Market. I guess no space for Hound and Peter Pan at Amtrak 30th Street Station. Was Greyhound booted out of its old location on short notice or something? It's odd that they would choose such an shitty replacement.

It's possible the R211 is still on the same run because most line crews still aren't qualified yet. Haven't seen anything posted about additional crews being trained on the R211s.

Consquestors are a very small, small portion of the subway ridership. Recording such announcements would be an waste. 99 percent of the subway riders don't even know what consquestors are. Most don't even know what railfans are let alone the subset of fans which vandalizes the trains

Nobody replaced Neoplan and NABI. Nobody replaced Prevost.. Your post reminds me of the late 90s in Brooklyn when every NYCT bus was RTS's I was an 90s baby so RTSs was all I knew when it came to buses for local buses for a brief period. Command Bus MCI classics were the only non RTS bus I saw until the C40s showed up. I still remember the first time I saw an Orion V (Green Lines) on the Q35... What's crazy is I was bummed when the Orion Hybrids started to gradually shrink the RTS fleet lol

Wow, that leaves only New Flyer, Gillig and Protrerra for transit bus manufacturers. I guess different variations of the Excelsior buses will eventually dominate the MTA fleet like the RTS did at one point, every depot could possibly have New Flyer equipment. Unless the TA orders Proterras. First Prevost, now Nova! This is very disappointing news..

Let's say option 2 is 211As and the T's "fail" their test... would the two open gangway sets be put in storage and rot in yards for many years like the R110s were?

Today I rode an S79 which took the UPPER level of the VZ Bridge. First time I been on an local bus that went on the upper level of the bridge. Also three S79s were bunched up, never seen that before.

Maybe the R179 warranty expires after a certain amount of miles and the TA doesn't want the 179s to reach that milestone just yet. CI did this years ago with the R160s, a bunch of R68/68As were used on the & lines on the weekends cause the R160s warranty was about to expire. Good times seeing the 68s dominate Broadway for a few weekends after tech train dominance for a while.

207th is closed this weekend due to a G.O, is starting/ending at 168th.

They have regents in 8th grade now?! When I was in school regents didn't start until freshmen year of High School (9th grade).

R42 final run was in the middle of an weekday on a cold February day and was very crowded. I'm pretty sure a lot of teenage railfans cut school to ride it and will do so tomorrow. Disclaimer: I don't agree with younger railfans cutting school.

In one of these sticky threads a poster who went to Zerega noted that a lot of 4700s were there getting upgrades. Maybe that's the reason more 40 Footers are showing up on the B1.

The BMT Standards will be running in passenger service between Kings Highway and 18th Ave on the line from 11:30AM to 2PM tomorrow. Most likely going back and forth on the express track. It's free, only gotta pay the 2.75 subway fare to enter the system. https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/bmt100/

The SI R211 doesn't have the WABCO AA2 horns like the R44s do Was hoping they kept the same horns like PATH did with the PA5.

I'd bet my last dollar that the R268 will look exactly like the R211s do. Throughout the subways history they kept the same design for the several car classes. Most of those SMEE fleets in both divisions from the 1960s look exactly the same. R16 though R38 have the same general look.

I wonder if CP has shitty management or something and that's why the B/Os there are they way they are. Maybe CP is a miserable depot to work out of? No idea if it's true or not but I heard Gun Hill is a great Depot to work out of even though their Artics are beat to a plup and is rumored to have bad maintenance. Looks like an miserable Depot to work out of from the outsider but apparently that's not the case. Just an example that things aren't always clear to someone on the outside of an situation. IDK I'm just shooting the shit about this current discussion in this thread lol

Speaking of B/O f**Kerry, last week on an SI express bus the driver was promoting a rider's block party over the bus PA system

Now that the hype has died down the reduced seating is really disappointing. I hope the & keep their R179s after the R211 order is complete so you still have an chance of getting a train with decent seating capacity. I have a feeling that N/B at Broadway Junction every N/B will be SRO off peak leaving that stop while currently its usually only the trains that came from Far Rock that are crowded. I worry how reduced the seating will be in the R262 considering that they will be smaller IRT cars.

The company that made the flip up seats went out of business, no spare seats to replace broken ones so they are removed.

That crazy they don't have automated announcements for SIR yet automated announcements to Poughkeepsie exist... and the MN shorelines aren't capable of having automated announcements. I would imagine Viola Mitchell will record the SIR announcements, would be an nice change of pace from the ppl who do the stop by stop announcements in NYCT

I think the schedule for the sup exp is made up on the fly at Mets Willis point by an TSS after weekend home Mets games, hence their being no online schedule. It's slimar to the Yankee Special trains. Wanna ride an sup exp your best bet is to wait at Willis Point after a weekend Mets home game to ride one, that's when they usually run them.

I noticed that today as well.

I'm on an NICE Bus Gillig with no A/C, HVAC is on but isn't pumping out any air. Driver has those little fans on in the front of the bus lol. First time I seen a NICE B/O use those fans NICE must know their maintenance are trash hence spec'ing their buses with fans in the 21st century.

It wasn't cold today, it was damn near Hoodie weather so IDK why you was expecting good A/C on a 70 degree day. No car class I rode today was pumping out cold air, no need to as it wasn't hot outside.