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SevenEleven

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  1. If all 3 call, go with the TA appointment. You’ll get the city pension and if you were to transfer to another city job or TA title, your time of service carries over. Also, you need to be TA to work in Staten Island or the Casey Stengel, Jamaica or Queens Village depots in Queens. With OA or TA, you will be able to work out of any depot in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx, subject to your seniority and excluding the TA only locations mentioned above. If you’re thinking of moving up to dispatcher, then you can only work in your territory. Meaning if you’re TA, that’s only Brooklyn, Staten Island and Queens (again Stengel, Jamaica and QV) OA is only Manhattan and The Bronx. Only way an OA dispatcher can work in Brooklyn is at the Command Center. Superintendent and above, you’re going wherever they need you.
  2. Yes, that’s correct. They give you the 3-90 day range because that’s how long it can take to get you lined up for a class. If they’re moving to put you in the next class, you’ll get called in for medical soon.
  3. They are. The S79 is one of the routes for the bike rack expansion.
  4. If I remember correctly, the inner rails are to help a top the train from going over the tracks completely, should it derail.
  5. The pass office is open for in person visits, so I believe you have to go down there to renew.
  6. It’s just to give a better vantage point of the rear doors, as opposed to just using the mirrors.
  7. I had picked up one of those trips for OT thinking it was going to be sweet — Nahhh
  8. Tuskegee is short buses so they bring the buses down in the AM and send them back in the evening.
  9. Yes, those trips between 1230 and 1am, all the office cleaners get out. You will religiously have a full bus back to SI.
  10. If you come back within the year, you lose nothing. It’ll be like you never left. After the year if you’re allowed to go back, you’ll keep just your pay rate and anything else that your total time of service gets you. (i.e. vacation). You will lose some/all of your seniority for picking.
  11. Take as many as you want. You can start off as a Conductor and go to another title via an OC exam. Promotional exams require you to be in certain titles for a specified period of time to be eligible to take the exam or be called from it.
  12. I know. I’m surprised I still know how to post on this thing.
  13. 8355 is at ENY CMF for new bus radios. Will (or should) become a Jamaica bus after.
  14. They aren’t but they still have to train operators on the Orions, in case they get sent to a depot with them.
  15. It’s actually picked yard work for an operator. They do go out every day and cycle the lifts on ‘x’ amount of buses due for lift cycling. Any buses that don’t work, get taken out of service to be fixed. The problem I’ve always had with the Prevosts was getting the bus to release the wheelchair door. There’s two locks, one that is physical and one that the bus releases. (Maybe with a sensor or whatever) You can have the bus setup correctly for the lift but if the bus didn’t release its lock, the door would not open and it would appear stuck at the top of the bus. Sometimes power cycling the bus would work and get it unlocked, sometimes it didn’t. I’ve had one wheelchair on a Prevost while I was an operator and had this happen on a then 2 year old bus.
  16. It’s a door panel that’s opened and hanging.
  17. Went to Gun Hill for a tripper, back at Kingsbridge now.
  18. They’re not routes. They’re just designations for long term shuttles.
  19. Out of service by maintenance and then becoming a training bus afterwards. 4443 is being held as a training bus as well.
  20. This is reflecting all the operators who are going to the MAC tomorrow. So the 5 from yesterday, and 8 tomorrow makes 13 TA.
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