Cait Sith

That was said several times before. Let's wait for some actual news. Doesn't really help your case considering you completely misunderstood what he said.

FYI, contradicting yourself is never a good idea. You can't say they are really bad and then say they are good.

Doubt it, especially with all of the hoops you gotta go through just to get to the ferry with that proposal.

Yonkers aint getting local buses or local service. They can't simply transfer Bronx MaBSTOA routes to MTA Bus. There's a lot more they have to do than just transfer routes, and it would be a whole lot of trouble...

Again, no.

No. It depends on how the community responds to it first.

Not to a huge extent, but to a point where a not-so-severe compromise can be done. It's evident that with the Fordham busway, there was no thought put into it especially since they'll essentially force drivers to use East 187th/188th streets, and then the traffic will just funnel back over to Fordham Road on both ends of the busway proposal, literally going back to square one. It wasn't a well-thought out idea.

Can confirm, though I was told it was an August/September timeline weeks ago. Some of the details I received from the new round of proposals are quite.....interesting to say the least.

MDBF says otherwise. Their reliability is going up.

I agree, 14th Street could've been planned much better to the point where businesses would benefit way more with the street space. Outdoor dining would've made more sense with the idea of a pedestrian plaza of some sort. The amount of missed opportunities that plague 14th Street now with the unused space has gone up ever since. West 3rd(and that general vicinity of Greenwich Village) is a nightmare, even for people walking on the sidewalk, MacDougal as well. As an e-bike owner, I avoid that area as much as I can. As for the bike lanes, the only ones I've ever seen enforced(in Manhattan) is the one on 8th Avenue. The ones on 1st and 2nd Avenue are never enforced and you always have cyclists going down the opposite direction of the bike lane/street. I always end up wanting to fight someone over how stupid they are on the bike lane sometimes. I just end up staying on the traffic lanes for that reason, and I always take advantage of the bus lane while I can. I am obviously pro-transit and want things to be better for buses and trains altogether, but you also cannot turn a blind eye to the damage the city and the DOT has done to the city with their lack of planning. The one-track mind ideology is not the way things should be done. I wish they would come up with plans that would benefit both transit and car owners, especially since other major cities in the US have done so, and the way they planned the Fordham busway would have done a lot more damage than it would improve things.

The other problem with the busways are if they'll actually be enforced....Jamaica Avenue's busways are hardly enforced. Cabs and other vehicles go through it as if nothing changed. This has always been my primary problem with their implementation of the busways, and so far, 14th Street is the only one that is enforced seriously. Main Street is very hit or miss with enforcement. I doubt Fordham Road would get that treatment of serious enforcement. What folks who are also for the idea don't see is that Fordham Road is literally a major artery on both the East and West ends of Fordham Road, as it leads directly to Pelham Parkway, the Major Deegan Expressway, the Bronx River Parkway and quite literally, Manhattan. Logistically, making Fordham Road from Arthur Avenue to Morris Avenue a busway would make very little sense for that reason alone, as there's no alternative to get to those two points of interest, and would actually make traffic conditions much worse elsewhere. That part of The Bronx has very few alternative routes to get to those areas. A busway won't stop people from driving in their cars, especially people who already dislike using public transportation as it is(and that's a lot of people). If Fordham Road was wide enough, double bus lanes like on Madison Avenue would've been better than a full blown busway. The DOT always had a half-assed approach to the busway implementation(except for 14th Street, they actually mapped out alternate routes), for example, in preparation of the Jamaica Avenue Busway, they ADDED a traffic light on Sutphin Blvd at 91st Avenue. That made traffic exponentially worse on Sutphin. Every block between Jamaica Avenue and 95th Avenue has traffic lights now, and they aren't in sync. The fact of the matter is, if the DOT, the MTA and the NYPD were actually serious about enforcing the existing bus lanes, we'd never be in this predicament to implement full blown busways to begin with. Other big cities have bus lanes that are seriously, legitimately enforced. The fact that New York City has bus lanes that are very rarely enforced systemwide(but will enforce SBS fares sparingly) is an overall disappointment. The bus lanes in New York City are literally a joke because of the lack of enforcement. And with the way DOT implements their plans, it's a lazy, half-assed approach that more often than not, does more harm than good. After how disastrous the implementation of the Jamaica Avenue busways was, I have very little faith in the DOT and the city implementing busways with some sort of logical sense behind it.

They're not out for service. They are training buses.

Not sure why this was necessary.

No.

This is assuming you even know where the work is happening. There is ALWAYS work being done on the weekend. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. Crews have to change positions and stay on the schedule. Weekend service in general is vastly different from weekday service, as service patterns are different. I don't understand this question at all. Short turning trains at.....the terminal?

That is far from a shuttle, that's a whole route right there lol. You also have the NYC Ferry as well, buses aren't the only option out there for once. XDs aren't the only thing they can get. LFS Artics(for Flatbush), XN40s and XN60s from West Farms(huge spare factor), XDE40s. They could also get Orions from Staten Island. Wilder things have happened.

Simple, to keep up with existing demand. Also, sending all of those trains to Newark would cause a bottleneck. Nah not Times Square....they got the buses, they'll be fine .

If I recall, PATH was supposed to go to Grand Central in its early days. They also provisioned for a spur at 9th Street that would've sent trains over to Astor Place as well.

No, it's not. Since there's 75 of these coming....that's far from being a prototype. The 211Ts are moreso prototypes if that's the set of cars you meant.

None of those swaps had to do with mileage. That's not how mileage swaps work.

They've had quite a bit of actual breakdowns lately, not just circumstanal scenarios such as this one.

March MDBF statistics are out. Nothing too notable. R179s takes a very tiny drop. R68As continue to plummet. They're officially in 5-digit territory whereas the R68s are doing better, and are going up. R46s holding steady. R143s continue to go up in reliability. R160s slightly dropped again. From what I've been told, the drops are largely because of ENY's R160 fleet. R142s are going down, while the R142As are going up. A notable change from last year, as the R142As were going down, and the R142s were going up. R62s are rebounding a little bit, R62As went down in February but are holding steady for march. Both R188 fleets are going up.

From what I gathered, for express buses, the full fare is only charged during rush hours in general, no matter if its in peak or off-peak direction.

Definitely sounds like some kid fan that doesn't know what they are talking about. I never watch these "reviews" from kids or other fans. None of it makes much sense.

This is assuming you even know how many buses are in service from Jamaica on a single day(hint, its not all of them). That largely determines the spare factor, not the total count. Jamaica has always maintained a high spare factor and maintain the same level of service as they do regularly, otherwise, they would have never loaned buses to The Bronx(especially when the Bronx redesign screwed up runs), or Stengel when their buses were acting up and a number of Xcelsiors went there. Hell, Jamaica has also loaned/transferred RTSs to Manhattan and still maintained a high spare factor. In terms of Queens TA depots with low spare factors, QV has the lowest largely because of the Q46 and Q27. Whenever they have nothing, they are often getting buses to fill gaps. Jamaica has never had that significant of an issue until recently, at the fault of the 8Ks. The last time they ever had to get buses because of a shortage was back in 2014-ish, when they had OGs and NGs from Stengel.