553 Bridgeton

Academy most likely will be left with the bare minimum. It goes deeper then what you guys see. There are major issues with the route 9 services.

It’s time njt stop letting these private carriers tell them how they want the buses. We giving you buses so you take what we give you not how you want. Every last one of the private carriers should have had stainless steel sides. 
 

If route 9 is lost, you could possibly see the 134 line comeback.

Academy does not care about the transit lines. They are solely for the charter work especially with the sport teams. 

6 hours ago, davemackey said:

 Now we got NJT coaches again so here we go with those trips down to Sicklerville and back.

If I see them tracking there I will snap pics. 

Dont have numbers yet. 

17 oradell buses are done

4 hours ago, JLiu15 said:

I believe 19038-19067 (Academy) also have lavs, so we might already have all 60 lavs delivered.

This is a separate order for more lavs. Previous lavs been in service. 

17064 and 17066 has been transferred to Egg Harbor. Still waiting for 17069 from CMF.

12 hours ago, Gmansports said:

Here is update of current D4500CT at Oradell As of today august 27th

 

all loaners have been returned to their original garages except the following 

 

21099, 21178, 21179, 21184 (loaners)

21191-21197 officially home to oradell

current working roster is a measly ten 

 

Oradell awaits the start of year 6

22xxx order which 118 out of 151 will go to Oradell first. 
 

Rest goes to Fairview however it is still undetermined if they decide to give Fairview all 33 or just 26 and the 7 goes to Wayne. 

Cheers!

 

 

 

 

30 of those 22xxx are supposed to be lavs for EHT and Meadowlands.

16 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:

no update on 17065 or 17069 yet?

17069 is scheduled to be sent to Egg Harbor in the coming weeks.

9 hours ago, SubBus said:

How are you? 

As usual,  you are on point with this post.  I met him a couple of times on the job. Good guy, bad decision.  I was hoping that it wouldn't make it to the media... 

Also,  that's not his girlfriend....

A side chick. If I’m not mistaken he has a wife and 4 kids.

21 minutes ago, MarkGuy said:

As a T/O it just pisses me off how some commenters are saying, "If she can operate with no training like that, its a low-skilled job that anyone can do."

This isn't just about pushing a train up and down the tracks. Does she know about what to do if she sees a signal with two red dots beneath it? Or how to deal with improper flagging, let alone when it's done right?

And BTW, you can see him helping her hold down the MC in one of the videos. So don't give her all the credit.

You have to look at it from an idiots(news media)POV. Then you have to know that it is a skilled career that people dream of having. We know it’s not just pushing controls. You literally have to look for 8/10 car markers; stations that are longer the 10 will be closer. In hindsight anyone can push that mc forward but the skill comes in on braking, working gt, st, one shot-two shots. Pressing the ATO alerter. Holding the mc down on smee equipment as my gf explained it “my hand is on fire”. Don’t let news media piss you off in that manner brother. Me as a bus op I get people saying all you do is drive and news media always call us train drivers and bus drivers, we are not a drivers, we are operators who took the challenge and succeeded at the craft.

oh not to mention having to stop on the 8/10 for 35+ stops straight, that I give you guys the utmost respect for because you have to learn each station especially fast stations, some stations you can slow without much braking on uphill stations. 
 

anyone in the transit industry to me we are all brother and sisters all bus ops and train ops. I don’t wave to train ops I salute, if you see that person in a njt uniform doing that, it’s me, and every train op and c/r gives me the nod because it’s them knowing I respect you. 

5 minutes ago, RTOMan said:

Opps duh my bad thats him operating the train then?

That’s him operating. It was posted on her Instagram account. 

1 minute ago, RTOMan said:

Opps duh my bad thats him operating the train then?

Yessir. My gf is a op in the A Div and the shit that’s going on over there now. ADiv TSS are out for blood right now, especially that Indian guy that’s usually between bowling green and 59th

1 minute ago, EastFlatbushLarry said:

unbelievable. seems to me like dude was trying to impress some mediocre *ussy because this was probably the first female to pay attention to him in Lord knows how long... and now? career done. what's sad to me is that I've seen B/O's throw away their seniority/careers over having baby mommas on a bus line/getting run off of lines/getting run out of depots due to baby momma drama with female co-workers and/or civilians... NEVER thought of no shit like this would be going on downstairs smh

One op in my garage is married and has 3 baby moms on 4 different lines that he’s hiding from now.

1 minute ago, Lawrence St said:

First it was a T/O watching porn while operating in service, now it's this. Whats next in this crazy problem???

Not only that there was a conductor changing clothes on the platform in full view of people. 

1 minute ago, RTOMan said:

Wait is this the TOs Youtube Account?

I’m not a train op, I’m a bus op njt.

P**** will get you caught up kids learn now the easy way or you will find out the hard way. 
 

he’s a buff as well, he probably hasn’t stopped crying yet. I’ve seen him not too long ago on a D via 8th Av GO few weeks ago.
 

4 hours ago, biGC323232 said:

...Meadowlands is one i can think of greenville nabi's aren't that bad either...

Are you kidding me? Meadowlands has some of the worse NABIs. All they do is keep the outside clean. There break down rate are higher then Fairview’s and Egg Harbor nabis combined.

3 hours ago, Tranzitfan81 said:

19140 is also back at Newton Avenue.  All Wayne buses have been sent back up North as well.  Switch has been reversed ( for now anyway). 

I said it earlier,  it was because of DOT inspections. Wayne garage was short staffed and Washington Twp was the only garage fully staffed with mechanics to do DOT Repairs. 

3 hours ago, JLiu15 said:

17070 is on the 552 rn; guess it's active out of Egg Harbor now.

That is now an egg harbor bus. They are 7422,7442 replacements.

20004, and 20027 are tracking Washington Twp for DOT Repairs and Inspections.

11 hours ago, Tranzitfan81 said:

Well now it seems buses have been going back and forth, those 19000s went back to Wayne so now 20014 is tracking at Newton Avenue garage.  18127 and 18128 were also returned to Newton Avenue.  I think 17185 and 19177 went back to Wayne too, Washington Twp got 18002 back only.  The crazy part of all of this is none of Wayne buses have been in service on any of the South Jersey routes, which is bad because all three SJ garages are running short with MCIs now.  Also noticed 21138 out of Egg Harbor Twp these past few days, most likely a summer loan. 

Those swaps was for DOT Repairs and Inspections.

I brought 21138 down as a 319 to Wildwood, due to 18105 breaking down. 

2 hours ago, JLiu15 said:

This is anecdotal, but I've heard that the Rockland 20000s and 21000s might never go into service, my guess is probably due to low ridership from the pandemic.

If this were the case, what would happen to these buses? It's a lot of buses, so not sure if returning to NJT or transferring to another private carrier would cause a surplus of buses.

They run a very limited service and the buses are not full. They’ll do what Suburban did just have the buses sitting until they end up using them. 

4 hours ago, JLiu15 said:

Based on a FB video, it looks like Academy's 19000s (19038-19067) also have lavs. This would mean all 60 lavs have been delivered.

Those buses are 2yrs old now lol. There is another order for 30 more lavs. 

1 hour ago, Tranzitfan81 said:

It looks like Wayne ended up sending 3 buses back.  18127 and 18128 are back in Camden and Turnersville has 18002 back.  18002 was on the 406 earlier and is now on the 459 and 18128 was on the 409 earlier this evening.  18127 is tracking at the Newton Avenue garage.  Hopefully during the next bus swap, they send South Jersey buses that are operable right away.  It got so bad that they had to use an NABI on the 551 ( 5341).  Newton Avenue was experiencing an NABI shortage on Wednesday evening due to helping Turnersville.  19145 made an appearance during the evening on the 452 as a result which was definitely rare.

19076 is tracking at Washington Twp.

1 hour ago, Tranzitfan81 said:

It is a shame they sent those buses down the Turnpike with problems.  I have noticed that they're not being used on routes yet.  I did notice 17067 tracking today but 19070 is in Camden at Newton Avenue garage along with 19075. I don't know what else Turnersville got besides 17067 and 19177 because nothing appears to have left the garage yet.  

Those Wayne buses have major issues with brake lines needing to be replaced.

17063 finally hit service yesterday on the 319 yesterday and 553 today