553 Bridgeton

Always will! I wish we had air horns

Because it’s cheaper. I would never pay 9$ for a ride that cost 5 something.

Oh yeah that’s right rogers jct only has the switch to the express and local(from the express track)and then to flatbush.

Those 5s are literally 4 trains. However you can’t have all those 5s as 4s(hell at 24min I think it was only four 5 trains running) it would cause a mess at Atlantic Av. I said the same thing, on paper it looks good to suspend the 5. Those crews working the 5 were 4 crews while 5 crews were displaced to work the 2 to crown heights, and to relay at Utica. Those people had to deal with 17min headways at points throughout the day. The mismanagement of having 2s dump on the 3 track holding up 3s, when you could have sent the 2 express from Franklin to Utica to dump on the 4 track then go into the relay. I didn’t see any track work on the express between Utica and Franklin. Nostrand and Kingston folk are used to terrible 3 train service, they don’t get double service with the 4 so why do it with the 2.

I always said the same thing. Especially having mcis on the 159 is utterly terrible. Another thing to mention Fairview should be an exact fare garage.

But the question is are they going to put the clever device on the state owned mcis? The 8500s-8600s and 8900s had the clever device.

My GF is t/o on the 1 & 2. One day she had to take a lite train from 241-Liv YD. They made her take 7 Av Loc(didn’t want her in front or behind the 3 on the exp) to 14th but had to call back at TSQ, then told her to take the loc to 14th then exp to chambers. From what I was told they want to keep those switches free so it doesn’t bother the night 3 shuttle if in case those switches malfunction. Which leads me to believe why most GOs the 2/3 is local from Chambers to 96 or 14th to 96. The less switching the better. Even if work isn’t being done south of 34th it’s just easier to keep local.

They still have to report the trips because it’s a NJT owned line. The issue is Academy cuts trips and prioritize charters. There’s a reason they never put clever devices(and they were supposed to)in the new mcis; the commuters can’t track them so if the bus don’t show they get on a 63,64,67 or 139. The other issue is not funding for operating costs; it’s again academy making operators available for charters. Academy does not care about there transit lines because the bulk of their money comes from charters with the sport teams contracts.

That garage is not opening anytime soon.

To get rid of the 9000s and 7100s, which could possibly dump to market street.

Our 551, 552, 553, 554, 559 are the 24hr lines in the south. They need to train these operators at night. But again njt is stuck in the stone ages. 21 days mon-Fri is not enough for these kids that are coming in with no driving experience. what I mean by rushing, they are passing them even if the instructor knows they are not fully qualified for the sake of getting work filled. They don’t even properly go over setting up mirrors.

Washington Twp. This is the issue when you cut training time. Can’t blame no one but njt. Washington Twp is short 50 operators. I’ve done the 551 and that stretch from exit 17 to exit 28 going west and east is pure tunnel vision. If your not used to working nights do not even think about working the 551 or the 319.

7531, 7532-33, 7535 were the best.

That was a egg Harbor original before the 7100s came.

Now all the operators have to report to work in a high Covid transmissible environment; with operators POSITIVE.

No, they are just testing it out. Newton Av is still getting 8 XE40s. They want Newton Av to be an all electric garage. Being 2022 is the last of the D4500CT, it make sense to test the LE at Newton Av with the chargers. If NJT pushes an LE Newton Av and Wayne would get them first.

Exactly. That’s how you know these lines need a full rework. A lot of these people are walking or riding bikes great distances just to get the bus, and njt just sits around like that is normal now and it’s not.

It’s not even running unofficially. It’s blacked out on the flats at meadowlands and Ironbound. It’s suspended.

Seeing how bad Penn plaza is at planning this is a terrible idea. The way NJT envisions routes no longer is “the way to go”. A new line to the meadowlands will accomplish what? They need to focus on re-working everything from the ground up. These buses DO NOT go where people need to them to anymore. The lines are redundant. Not everyone wants to go to New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and New York to transfer to a outbound bus. This is literally a waste of money. When the Mickey Mouse games was being played over at MetLife during the construction of American Dream they wasted and threw away money at a time when things was booming, now you want to throw money at a place that’s a dying thing aka “malls” pandemic or not with a new line. Besides the mini park and the handful of stores at American Dream explain how much more use will a new line have when it will face the same issue the 355/356 faces. I have yet to see NJT fully come through with any plan they said they want to finish especially on the bus side. The bus side is a joke and ran by people who have no clue and would rather keep a bus in a area for 5 people rather then put that bus where 20 people work. Meanwhile the 67 needs a full restructuring. Put money where things are growing in this day when New York is no longer “it”

They don’t even run the 356 anymore “unofficially”. 355 only runs weekends, maybe 10ppl per trip if that. Who wants to pay $9 when you can just take the 160. The people in planning and scheduling are utterly clueless and have no sense.

Natural selection can never be defeated

The 552 sees most of ridership between cape may court house and wildwood-rio grande. During the summer now is a different story, it’s really heavy out of Atlantic City with tourist. Transit is ok with taking a loss in the winter-spring months(Oct-may).

My garage has no old buses all 2018s, 2017s, and 2016s.

Well it’s not on the winter pick which goes until April. If anything it’ll take affect for the summer pick and more then likely the fall 2022 pick.

Coach is struggling with the 119. A lot of buses never show. And it doesn’t help when the operators pay is terrible. Academy and Coach use the operators and pay them blood money then pocket the operating cost from NJT.