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On 3/20/2024 at 8:32 PM, checkmatechamp13 said:
Toms River is 31 zones from NYC, Toms River is 18 zones from NYC. Not sure how many ones Six Flags is from NYC.
6 flags is 17 zones, however you can’t buy a zone 17 tix; you have to pay the special fare tix for the 308.
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7 hours ago, 2ride said:
You can apply for train operator or locomotive engineer at NJT can’t you?
They are very picky on who they pick. I won’t elaborate publicly but if you want to pm me I will gladly tell you.
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12 hours ago, Blitzer120 said:
Now, im having a bit of second thoughts. On the one hand, being a conductor would provide stability. On the other hand, it'd be a slap to the post-secondary education and the BootCamp I'm doing right now. Aw man...
I’m well established in Nj Transit, making top pay and I’m having second thoughts but my ultimate goal is to make it to train operator. Sometimes you have to make a step back in life to go forwards
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10 hours ago, Cait Sith said:
I don't mind it on the 126 as much mostly because the line is short and passenger flow on the 126 isn't that bad on an MCI.
The 150s, however, especially a reverse peak 158....HORRIBLE. And there's people that bring luggage onto the bus. I rode on a 22000 a few weeks ago on the 158 and the dwell time was forever.I keep saying this, fairview needs to be an all exact fare lines. The dwell times are just too much with the mcis and full service on the Nabis/Artics. I could never be an operator at Fairview, it just looks too stressful and Bergenline would make me quit.
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2 hours ago, 2ride said:
Is there going to be a difference between people who take it on April 21st and people who take it on April 28th? I’m taking mine on 28th so I’m curious.
I don’t think so, we have to be established on a list according to scores. It’s seems it’s more-so of when you filed for the exam. I filed for the exam on day 1.
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Anyone get an email about the conductor test on April 20th? I got mine in the email and it also said the letters will be mailed out and received by next week.
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4 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:
how many more Decamp Units still need to be reactivated?
17074, 17092, 17093 as far as I know.
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17081, 17103, 17109 arrived at Washington twp last night. Probably will end up staying there as Washington Twp requested 8 of the 17s from decamp currently they have 5, 17071-17075. They made the request because they said egg harbor was getting too many buses.
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14 hours ago, FlxMtroD said:
The end is near for Wayne and Fairview's remaining 9000 Cat engine cruisers and also Wayne's 7100 series Cats. I wonder if Howell still has them ex-MTA cruisers still running. I haven't been seeing them on tracker for a long minute
Howell 71s have been rare in recent weeks, although 1 or 2 run a day. Mostly the cngs run in their place now.
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22 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
What is going on in ETH with the accidents?
Washington Twp. Pushing them through training.
Also an update, the mentioned buses above OOS have been removed twp roster.
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12 hours ago, The TransitMan said:
So these buses (in bold) are confirmed scrapped?
Accident hold buses. Only confirmed scrap is 16003.
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6 hours ago, Metro CSW said:
4155-59 at Broad Channel.
I got a picture of this set at 88th. Was this the one on the flats?
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On 2/17/2024 at 3:20 PM, FLX9304 said:
Not everybody from WT is that bad. If you noticed about these MCI D4500CT buses, nobody wants to do the Philadelphia runs (401, 402, 406, 408, 410 & 412) but everybody’s quick on doing the 400 & 551, especially during the evening hours. And what’s this with location changes around WRTC?
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11 hours ago, Tranzitfan81 said:
Wow. I saw that bus was just out last week. Do their drivers need more training or something? It's mostly the MCis getting into crashes ironically not the 53s.
Rushed training and pushing them through even if they don’t fully understand the concept of driving a bus. The training at Washington Twp specifically has went to s**t.
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Ad 18008 to the list of crashed buses at Washington Twp. EHT again has to pay the price and give up another bus.
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On 2/11/2024 at 4:36 PM, DCTransitFilms said:
what happened with 18004 and 18030?
Accidents.
And if things can’t get any more bad, now Washington Twp is to get 4 more of our 17s . The only thing I can see now is that EHT will be getting some of those 21000s that was taken back.
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19 hours ago, BreeddekalbL said:
Hypothetical question say a wayne bus operator gets called to cover a 319 and when they come back from atlantic city can they take the GSP all the way to route 3 to deadhead back home to wayne?
Yes. They already do that now when they and Oradell/Westwood get trips.
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18004, 18014, 18016, 18030, 18037, 18058, 16003. As im currently hearing none of those buses will return and will be a write off.
Twe gave them 18064-18068 and they had 19136/19143 to cover those buses. They complained we was getting too many buses, so they send newton Av back those 2 19000s, and took 17063/17069-17075.
13 buses from eht to replace 6 buses, make that make sense. Now we are short buses again. Only 10 decamp buses was available last night at 930pm rest are on hold until 10am to see if they can run to avoid depot delays.
Washington Twp is not a 24hr garage. On Saturday/Sundays 80% of their buses sit.
We help out with Washington Twp because the lack of manpower there, us helping with the 551/554 has nothing to do with the bus moves.
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17069-17075 are now assigned to Washington Twp to replace the 5 accident buses. Didn’t see this coming.
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15 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:
Heard 17075 went to Newton Avenue. Can someone confirm?
Also 6484 was spotted at Greenville yesterday. Unsure if thats going to be assigned to Greenville or its going to be assigned somewhere else like Meadowlands.
That bus is at Washington Twp getting decals. It was sent to EHT with no decals then EHT brought to Washington Twp for the decals and registers. Washington Twp is the baby CMF of the south.
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1 hour ago, 46Dover said:
It’s amazing they were able to keep the current fare structure on the bus side for as long as they have
Look what they tell us “let em ride”. All the free rides especially on the 319 adds up.
This is only one bus assuming all 55 ppl paid $42 round trip.
$55x$42=$2,310. Say you let 10ppl ride free because they use the same lame duck excuse; that is $420 in free rides. 319 runs 7 days a week, you start adding all that and you get a nice number in fare recovery by 12 months. Exact fare lines all run in the red because of the passengers throwing anything in there and you hitting the A key. Hell the 48 runs 27% in the red everyday. The 166 is a heavy line and runs 21% in the red. Why is the 166 red? Most of the people out of PABT never buy the correct ticket and magically need to go to 46 or Leonia.
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On 1/18/2024 at 4:46 AM, 46Dover said:
Some of the buses we got from Coach USA/Academy still don’t have scanners
Hell the decamp 17s are hit and miss with scanners and if they do have them they don’t work lol. I stopped writing on the defect card about non working scanners; they don’t fix them anyway.
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1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:
NJT is going to have to auction off some of these MCI’s. There’s just to many that are sitting or collecting dust.
They won’t do that. If anything garages that never had spares will finally get spares. Newton Av is the only garage that has too many buses, but it allows them keep their miles low.
Egg Harbor needs at least 15 spares, Howell had to give 5 buses to Westwood or Oradell, Washington Twp needs 15-20 spares. So I can see 21198-21276 being thrown to various garages.
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53 minutes ago, Tranzitfan81 said:
21129 is on the 554, weird seeing a 21K on a Washington Twp (Turnersville) route.
That bus broke down and eht fixed it and now running it to hell and back.
And it’s Egg Harbor doing that 554 with 21129.
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4210 is there as well all black Erie & Lackawanna. It’s a transfer; had 4 comets, 2 cab and 2 non cabs. The multilevel 7510 is a non cab car hooked with one comet cab car.