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  1. Sure am, running the recommended pressure of between 105-110 psi for the tires on my bus. I do everything to the recommended spec on my personal bus. I plays no games with mines. Goodyear commercial tires tend to be of a harder compound than the rest. Firestone commercials tend to ride the softest, especially the FS-Series tires, they ride like you're on a cloud, expensive as all f**k but I will eventually outfit my bus with nothing by Firestones.
  2. OK FOLKS CALM DOWN All of the 1997-98 Novas are not retired.....There is still 4900 and 4901 (which is part of the build production of the 9350-9699 run and not the 4902-5249 run). 4900 was built in the production line after 9593 and 4901 was built in the production line after 9602. NYMTA Depot Roster Updated as of 3/25/18 @ 10:02AM - http://www.ttmg.org/transitwiki/Insider's_Guide:_Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority_Bus_Operations_-_Depot_Summary Fleet Summary Updated as well, we are down 9 buses fleet wide - http://www.ttmg.org/transitwiki/Insider's_Guide:_Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority_Bus_Operations_-_Fleet_Summary
  3. The issue with GILLIGs, is the spec. GILLIG literally will let you either ruin the bus or get the best built bus. Every piece of a GILLIG is up to the property ordering it. Right down to the suspension. MANY take the off the shelf GILLIG which is actually more of a medium-duty spec, which then you get your crappy rides and horrible build. But those that have spec'd heavy duty GILLIGs, get a VERY good bus. It wasn't until I experienced the Minneapolis GILLIG that I got impressed, DASH in Alexandria got a good spec, Ride On in Maryland has a good spec, I was even impressed with the GILLIGs ordered by San Diego, but again, they spec'd them right. All of that matters. As for the Novas, they always rode well. But the first gens were rather rough in other areas, Nova got it right with the second generation all around and the third and fourth generations are tanks! BUT again even the Nova LFS can suffer from a poor spec. The New York MTA Novas tend to ride a bit more rigid than any Nova I've ever experienced. The TA spec'd horrible tires and are now changing over the tires. The buses with the changed tires ride a lot more softer. Its crazy, but yes something as simple as a certain tire will change the whole ride quality of a bus. I find that LFS buses with Michelin, Firestone and Bridgestone tires ride like a coach and LFS buses with Goodyears tend to ride like bricks. I as a bus owner have seen that with my own bus. I changed my rears to Goodyears as a temporary gap until Im able to get some Firestone FS400s and I noticed immediately a harder ride on the rear of my bus.
  4. No, its impossible at this time for that to occur based on the fleet needs of the service requirements.
  5. Once the XN60s clear out the Orion VII/CNGs, the oldest CNGs in the fleet, the C40LFs, will only be a mere 7-8 years old....They have at minimum another 7-8 years of service as the Tanks of the C40LFs are rated for 15-20 years of service.
  6. Let me start out by saying that these XN60 units are NOT replacement buses for ANY articulateds at West Farms, these XN60s are direct replacements for the 2004 Orion VII/CNG fleet. This fleet of articulated buses is to supplement the current articulated fleet at West Farms which is to allow the conversion of the Bx6SBS and the Bx36 to articulated fleets. The D60s are being displaced slowly by LFSAs coming out of SBS service in Manhattan. 5934 and 5935 have already arrived to West Farms and have been unwrapped.
  7. Well first of all, the 2004 DCBNA Orion 07.501 CNGs do not have ZF EcoLIFE transmissions in them, they have ZF ECOMAT-2 transmissions. The ONLY buses with ZF Ecolife transmissions are Orion 7 EPA 10 Gen 4 7000-7089; Nova LFSAs 5253-5363, 5439-5530, 5770-5986; Nova LFS 8015-8503; New Flyer XD60 4785-4799, 5364-5438; New Flyer XN40 673-810 and New Flyer XN60 1000-1109. Secondly, the information of the exact fleet numbers of XN40 units to be transferred from Gleason to the Farms is not available.
  8. The deciding factor in what buses get shifted when a new fleet arrives is based on the average fleet age of a depot. If C40LF units are transferred instead of the XN units, Gleason's average fleet age would be too young. So to balance this, they'll keep all their C40LF units while the new XN60 units displace XN40 units to the Farms. This move also balances out West Farms average fleet age.
  9. Amended New Flyer XN60 Order Information 1000-1015 to West Farms for Bx6 Select Bus Service 1016-1053 to Gleason for B35 Articulation 1054-1109 to West Farms for Bx36 Articulation (Of course you'll see them on the Bx15 and 19) This will allow the retirement of the majority of the 2004 DCBNA Orion 07.501 CNG Low Floor fleet. There is a possibility that Orions with tanks that are not near expiration may be kept, if so, it would be a very small batch (much like how some of the 2002-03 batches hung around). As of now, expect some New Flyer XN40 units to be transferred from Gleason to the Farms when Gleason gets their batch of XN60 units.
  10. Oh, and confirmed... 9500-9504 will be the Cummins B6.7-Allison HP40 group 9505-9509 will be the Cummins B6.7-BAE HDS200 Series-E group
  11. I gotta correct you bro. At the time of the award for the CNG, Nova had built 2 buses for Calgary, the first Hamilton Street Railway order and was in the middle of building the Buffalo order. New Flyer lied on paper to the MTA about that. Also Nova has just about the same amount of technical experience with Hybrids as New Flyer, just because they built more Hybrids for the Canadian properties than US properties doesn't lessen their technical know-how on building and supporting Hybrid buses. New Flyer keeps using that "technical experience" excuse to the MTA about Nova, but the truth of the matter is while New Flyer may have been in the CNG game longer than Nova, Nova's technical know-how surpasses New Flyer. On the electrical vehicle front, Nova kicks New Flyer's ass but unlike New Flyer, Nova will not "cheapen" (lower its prices) just to score a bid, Nova knows what its worth. New Flyer, since 2013 has been underbidding itself and is a dangerous gambling game that if they don't watch themselves, they'll go the way of Flxible and Orion...who had tons orders at their close dates, but couldn't financially sustain itself after various financial woes INCLUDING under bidding. From the beginning of the Xcelsior production until around 2013, the X was priced at the most expensive bus on the market, followed by Nova, then Orion and the GILLIG. After 2013, all of a sudden we saw a jump, and a large jump in X orders nationwide, all of a sudden they were beating out GILLIG in markets that was GILLIG strongholds, that was the red flag for me with New Flyer. Some properties are starting to come to their senses about the X product, its still not where it should be in terms of quality for New Flyer to be boasting so much about it. Point Blank, Its Not. New Flyer should've kept the LFR platform around a bit longer and really got the X to where it should be in terms of quality and THEN gotten rid of the LFR, but its not THERE yet, its not. Unlike the X....The Nova LFS, the GILLIG Low Floor all have had their time to mature and be the strong built, higher quality buses that they are, not debatable. I hate the the GILLIG Low Floor, with everything in me, but I know a quality built bus when I see it. You know I've been around this industry long enough to know. The Nova LFS, when it first came out was a weak product, it wasn't until the 2nd generation variant that the LFS became a well-built, strong quality product. HELL, even ElDorado has take the time to strengthen that Axxess platform and that a mean ass bus, I'm excited to see how they do in the LACMTA environment. But I say all that the say this, the MTA better be careful with all this New Flyer stuff, none of it sits well with me ESPECIALLY after having lived through and seeing the business and the business practices of many bus manufacturers. Get the X to where it really needs to be because every new order of Xs I've seen around the North American continent, and I've experienced many of Xs between the US and Canada, the quality is just not there yet. Pretty ass buses, yes! But for me that's where it stops.
  12. Buses to be retrofitted with WiFi... See This Post:
  13. Upcoming New Bus Delivery Expectancy Months: March 2018: 19 Nova LFS Artics (4 to MQ for SBS, 15 to GH for SBS) 1 New Flyer XDE40 (1 to GA) ____________________________ April 2018: 20 Nova LFS Artics (20 to MQ for SBS) 4 New Flyer XDE40 (4 to GA) ____________________________ May 2018: 20 Nova LFS Artics (20 to MQ for SBS) 3 New Flyer XN60s (3 to WF for Bx6 SBS) 22 New Flyer XD40s (11 to EN, 11 to FB) ____________________________ June 2018: 14 Nova LFS Artics (14 to MQ for SBS) 11 New Flyer XN60s (11 to WF for Bx6 SBS) 27 New Flyer XD40s (11 to EN, 15 to FB, 1 to JA) ____________________________ July 2018: 16 New Flyer XN60s (2 to WF for Bx6 SBS, 14 to JG for B35) 24 New Flyer XD40s (21 to FB, 3 to JA) ____________________________ August 2018: 17 New Flyer XN60s (13 to WF, 4 to JG for B35) 1 New Flyer XDE40 (1 to GA) 27 New Flyer XD40s (1 to FB, 8 to FP, 18 to JA) ____________________________ September 2018: 13 New Flyer XN60s (5 to WF, 8 to JG for B35) 3 New Flyer XDE40 (3 to GA) 15 New Flyer XD40s (4 to FP, 11 to GA) ____________________________ October 2018: 10 New Flyer XN60s (8 to WF, 2 to JG for B35) 1 New Flyer XDE40 (1 to GA) 18 New Flyer XD40s (13 to UP, 1 to JG, 4 to MQ) ____________________________ November 2018: 18 New Flyer XN60s (8 to WF, 10 to JG for B35) 22 New Flyer XD40s (11 to MQ, 7 to JG, 4 to *TBA Depot for L Train Shuttle) ____________________________ December 2018: 18 New Flyer XN60s (18 to WF) 20 New Flyer XD40s (6 to MQ, 14 to *TBA Depot for L Train Shuttle) ____________________________ January 2019: 3 New Flyer XN60s (3 to WF) 12 New Flyer XD40s (12 to *TBA Depot for L Train Shuttle) ____________________________ February 2019: 30 New Flyer XD40s (30 to *TBA Depot for L Train Shuttle) ____________________________ March 2019: 33 New Flyer XD40s (5 to JA, 28 to *TBA Depot for L Train Shuttle) ____________________________ April 2019: 44 New Flyer XD40s (15 to JA, 17 to EN, 12 to UP) ____________________________ May 2019: 37 New Flyer XD40s (10 to JA, 10 to MQ, 8 to FP, 9 to GA) ____________________________ June 2019: 27 New Flyer XD40s (9 to JA, 8 to MQ, 10 to UP) ____________________________ July 2019: 8 New Flyer XD40s (3 to MQ, 5 to UP) All of the current XD40s in SBS at Flatbush will be replaced with a new batch of XD40s in the new SBS scheme, also EN will get some in the SBS scheme for the B82 SBS. TBA means TO BE ANNOUNCED, HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED YET! And as with anything MTA, this is current as of now and its subject to change. Any other upcoming deliveries (The 72 addition Nova LFS Artics, the 251 Nova LFS 40-footers and the 131 New Flyer XD60s) are not available yet.
  14. Actually those buses were at OH and was moved back to Quill, it wasn't a false move. They were there for about 3 days. The OP was late reporting it here.
  15. NYMTA Depot Roster Updated as of 8:17AM on 12/16/17 Changes Follow As: 2691 to YU from MA 3705, 3746 to BP from JK 4143 to JK from EC 5289 to MQ from OH 5431 to BP from JK 5514 Retired from WF 5518, 5595, 5764 to KB from GH 5540, 5592, 5598, 5607 to MQ from OH 5763 Retired from GH http://www.ttmg.org/transitwiki/Insider's_Guide:_(New_York)_MTA_Bus_Operations_-_Roster_by_Depot
  16. 0016 is in fact 0021. A pre-production demo to get the depot ready for 0016-0020.
  17. Its going to be a minute before they hit service, the Proterras are arriving all white and will be wrapped here. Also they are not done installing the charging stations.
  18. 7 4 8 3 IS NOT HERE... I was just in Flatbush and the bus is not here, in fact it hasn't even been delivered yet. Its on its way yes, maybe sometime early next week. BUT it is and I REPEAT, not here. (Gotta know how to decipher the information you guys are getting from "that site.")
  19. After having a looking in and around the new D45 CRT LE by MCI, I can see the New Flyer Group hard bidding this model for our next express bus RFP, below is my photos from my time in the bus...
  20. For 2018-2019 Delivery... 618 Standard 40-Footers. Options from the Nova LFS and New Flyer XD40 orders exercised. 247 and 371 units respectively. Kiss the remaining RTSs in the fleet goodbye.
  21. Roster Updated as of Feb 11th, 2017 @ 10:10AM http://ttmg.org/transitwiki/Insider%27s_Guide:_(New_York)_MTA_Bus_Operations_-_Roster_by_Depot Minor Moves at the following Depots: Manhattan: OF, OH, MQ Queens: BP, FR, JA, JK Brooklyn: EN, GA SI: CH, YU
  22. Updated 2/5/17, Enjoy! http://ttmg.org/transitwiki/Insider%27s_Guide:_(New_York)_MTA_Bus_Operations_-_Roster_by_Depot
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