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BxM routes are running on a Saturday schedule on Black Friday this year.

I think properly maybe because of my petition, they properly took off n2/8 and n81 off the list.

I could scan the article tomorrow because I go to Pt. Wash Library to scan article.

After my petition, Briaffcliff College also started their petition to save n81 bus.

 

I drop of my petition signature twice.

Found it. So they took the n2/n8/n81 off the table and cut the n73/74, along with the entirety of the n46.

They should've cut the n58 north of USMMA, the n36/n81 on Saturdays, and the n70/72 east of Route 110, to save the n46 and a weekday N74.

According to newsday.

n2/8 only operate during rush hour.

n46 Bellmore village service can

n14, n17, n50, n51, n62 and n80/81 buses will be eliminated.

Briafcliff Admissitrative and Students want n81 bus to be save because without n81 bus service, they cannot go to campus. Briafcliff College don't have shuttle bus and student will be forced to take taxi. 

 

Majority of elderly and seniors citizen don't want n50/51 and n2/8 off-peak to be cut.

 

Newsday made two mistakes: It read n2/8 Peak direction to Jamaica and n17 Roosevelt Field-Rockville Cetre.

 

Just saw it on page that n73/74 and n19 Suffolk County segment will get discontinue.

Can you link the Newsday article? NICE told me on Twitter that the n81 is not getting cut, and the site doesn't mention the n2/8.

http://nicebus.com/Passenger-Information/Community-Meetings.aspx

My map...

Problem is that Students wouldn't have take Public Transportation.  I mentioned this to you else where, back in the fall of 2003 Laidlaw's Center Moriches yard went on strike for a few days at the start of the school year. I was the ONLY HS student that took SCT to and from school. I know this because the bus driver asked my why I was the only student to ride the bus.  Parents would either drive the students, they walk, or they car pool. 

However like I said the strike was moot because it had nothing to do with the topic of NICE cuts. 

 

When I missed the last school bus in HS, I would take a 2 mile ride on the n78 (riding around the loop if schedule permitted). A lot of my friends felt bad for me.

n22a's go to Hicksville now? When did this happen.....

What time was this? There is one weekday n22a trip that goes to Hicksville, 15:40 out of 169 -> 17:08 into Hicks.

Service expansions with the fare increase:

http://sct-bus.org/assets/serviceincreases4.1.15.html

S45, S61 get Sunday service, S58 adds a trip, S92 adds later service.

Weekends of Mar 28-29; Apr 11-12, 18-19, 25-26; May 2-3 buses replace LIRR trains between Babylon and Speonk.

MTA Bus buses will be used (not sure if NYCT or Bus Company)

So a quick summary from a Newsday article a couple days ago (I don't think it was posted here):

• Budget shortfall: $5.5 million
• No fare hike: -$800,000
• MetroCard hike: +$600,000
• All fare hike: $2 million

So the fare hike that was just approved fills only 11% of the budget shortfall. Not sure what level of service cuts amount to $4.9 million...the 2012 budget shortfall was around $7.3 million but the service cuts were only part of closing that.

Back to topic, TAC approved fare hike for MetroCard users at TAC meeting.

So not cash payers?

That leaves a large budget hole if Newsday is right, so we might see service cuts...

New interlining charts: (I skipped the November schedule change because NICE's GTFS was incomplete, missing the n2/n8 among others)
 
Weekday
Saturday
Sunday

I might do a layover calculation later.

The Fasttrack page is updated. It now shows no Lenox Avenue service on the and a complete suspention of the . It's set to occur March 16-20 and March 23-27.

There are two complete weekend Lenox shutdowns coming in early February. Hmm...

1/18 schedule change...http://nicebus.com/Passenger-Information/Schedule-Changes.aspx

Lots of added service on the N4 and N40/41, also a couple extra Saturday AM e/b N20's.

N57 now interlines w/ N20, but there's no indication on the schedule as to which trips link to which.

N48/49 service north of Broadway Mall is significantly reduced, midday service eliminated, and what remains is now a shuttle to Hicksville.

N79 loses its midday clockface schedule.

First FASTRACK of 2015, the first two full weeks of the year: between 125 and Hunts Point. runs to 149 St, with a bus bridge.

Does anyone know what this WH Branch trackwork is for?

Ties and surfacing. And before you ask, no I have no idea why it wasn't done during all those dormant weekends over the past few years.

Wait, didn't they try to do something like this last year around that time?

Similar, but if memory serves me correctly, it was just 12:01 Thanksgiving through 5am Monday, not a week.

For sale to the highest bidder, Canadian currency.

http://web.mta.info/nyct/materiel/pdf/MS14-235A-F.pdf

Metro North has quiet cars during peak periods only.  The quiet car is always the north (or east) most car.

The LIRR rule on quiet cars is: westernmost car, peak trains only, Brooklyn/Penn trains only, electric trains only.

Although I once had a crew announce that the last car was the quiet car on #564, the PM Oyster Bay DM.

Updated tables for Jun 2014...note that the n88 and n87 are interlined independently, with a one way supposedly taking no longer than 30min/1hr, respectively.

Weekday

Saturday

Sunday

A new blue n22 schedule is in the Hicksville racks. Not sure as to the changes.

The n87 via Freeport doesn't add any additional service, in fact, it REPLACES n88 trips. Very bad idea.

http://nicebus.com/Maps-Schedules/Jones-Beach-Summer-Service.aspx

Same time as the outages...buses replace trains between Marcy Ave and Broadway Junction/Myrtle Ave.

Weekend of May 9: No Rockaway-Lefferts, southbound express 80 St-Aqueduct.

Weekends of May 2 and 9: Franklin Av Junction outages: busing Flatbush-Franklin, line suspended with buses south of Franklin and to 148.

During the 74 St suspensions LIRR will cross honor, but only Woodside-Penn, not Flushing.

I watched PinePower's video-one thing that he left off the description above was that "no photography" signs have been posted along the perimeter of Mitchel Field.

How can the terminate at 96 St today, yet need to be extended to 148 St during the FASTRACK version of this outage? Where are they relaying today?