Cait Sith

As of right now, the LFSe+ order is still ongoing. There are unconfirmed rumors going around about the order being cancelled. Any orders that were placed PRIOR to the departure of Nova Bus leaving the US market are being fulfilled. They are not fully leaving the US market until 2025, so existing orders with various agencies such as MTA, WMATA and a few others are still ongoing.

They're all going to staten island.

The AC sucks in them, the heat is on point however.

The word is that Howell is supposed to get 20 of the all-white MCIs to push the 7100s out.

Almost true. It was ever since Governor Paterson cut regular state funding for the MTA in 2009(which led to the big 2010 service cuts), along with some of the worst top heads to ever be appointed(Jay Walder, Patrick Foye being the two notorious ones).

Seems like the microtransit ideas from the redesign will be going through, as it's been signed off and awaiting FTA approval. This is a pretty big indication that the redesign will be happening as is. (the cost is per million)

It's not exactly their fault. The maintainer of the philly tracker site has to update their stuff as well, which they haven't.

Not all of the bronx express routes were spared.

Yeah...with the 37(two blocks away from their stop they are complaining about) replaces the Q10 to the Airport after 135th.

They aren't, but Fairview's routes are the most prominent with that issue. Oradell's routes are definitely similar to Fairview's in terms of design, but the type of usage between both garages is different, same for Market Street. The 200 Artic bus order is supposedly going to allow the 150s to become fully artic. When that, or Ridgefield Park happens remains to be seen. -EDIT- Mixed up the numbers between the artic order and the 40ft order.

Hence why I said "they couldn't retire them to begin with". The only ones they retired are the ones with blown motors and other maintenance issues not worth to fix. And in this situation with the 4C, they don't really have much of a choice. Liberty Lines legally owns the BxM4C, not the county. The only way it would survive is if the county actually pays Liberty Lines for the route, which they likely won't do. Even the county looks at the BxM4C as a financial waste.

They couldn't retire them to begin with. Also, those could be going before the redesign is even implemented depending on what company wins the operations contract for Bee-Line. If Liberty Lines gets the boot(since they actually own the BxM4C route), it's a pretty fair assumption that those Orions will be going away very quickly if that's the case, since the BxM4C would no longer exist.

It makes a lot of sense...Wayne is getting more buses to retire the 9000s and 7100s, this would just speed up the process. Also lessens the maintenance load at Fairview.

Not to mention that the Q37 would be two blocks away from Sutter....

Not really. If they're being retired with blown motors, it makes sense.