Yup, they're not in service they just running around being tested. But S.I. isn't getting them right now so its between Queens & UP but I haven't seen or heard anything over here at UP so i'm guessing they went back to Jersey or Zerega.
Yup its 2490 + But they're late I think they were suppose to arrive last month IIRC.
What accident? it never had an accident .. it had engine - tranny problems. I saw it the day before they took it away for good from the airport and then I saw it about a month & a half ago at the Vendor again it looked the same as before when it left and still had the same ads and everything .
I know I mentioned 5088 heading for scrap the other week but Zerega fixed it after it's been out for a year due to a bad accident it came back to UP today as of 2:20pm .
It's either scrap or they're fixing it. The back covers are missing, wheel chair door missing, panels missing? Front doors missing, front windshields missing. I should've gotten a picture but I didn't, I'm looking for 5088 it was removed from UP 2 weeks ago I didn't see it at EC so they're probably fixing it .
4899 is the only one that's out so far but I'll check in for anything else later this evening . As for 5299... It's on holdFor further investigation, it's tarped off at the front though. Most likely they'll A. Fix it, B. get rid of it, C. Just replace it with a whole new one. When Edwin Thomas got killed on 9666 nobody wanted to drive the bus that he died on they had to tow it back to the depot and they scrapped it because of his passing.
It went to EN for a week and came back.. They put a sticker on the back left and they weren't supposed to. As for 2177.. its been at UP for months now it never left.
Well they got the 9300's Express RTSs Brand new.... They got 4840-4869 Brand new, EN took 4840-4854 from them. 4855-4869 + 4899 were the only new original batch they were left with. You mean S.I. Killed 4870-4898... But 4899 isn't at U.P. its been gone for almost a year because the Engine TA put in there (Truck engine + City transmission) Killed it all together theres a tranny that goes with that truck engine but transit wants to be cheap.
Well it's not that they're lazy, actually S.I gave UP the beat up batch, and UP gave the good half to EN but EN is takin better care of those buses than UP. Didn't we all go through this before lol... Not happening . It's not about the buses being capped it's how MTA set them up. LBSS is fine but they set them too slow and the engine is crapping out & btw 4884,4887 came back yesterday (Saturday) from the vendor. UP doesn't have 96's.. You mean the loaners from EN/FB 4900's & 5000's.
Well 4955, 4995, 5041, 5052, 5131, 5196, and a couple others are still at UP from EN/FB. 5079 was dragged out the yard Friday around 3:30pm to CMF and a few XD40's were dragged out within this past week as well.