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R10 2952

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  1. More like the higher-ups set rules for everybody else to follow, and a different set of rules for themselves. Just like any mismanaged, bloated, out-of-touch organization.
  2. This I agree with- there was absolutely no need for that. Honestly, I'm beginning to see why him, SG, and Y2 all left... Wouldn't be surprised.
  3. Excuse me, but I lived there before you, and for a longer period of time than you. Not to mention I was a regular local bus rider as opposed to a casual, occasional rider who, in your own words, rode the 7/10/20 "once or twice a year". That and at no point in my post did I explicitly suggest extending the Bx20 further south- trying to put words in my mouth I never uttered. The Bx20 got decent ridership before the '08 recession and the '10 cuts. The ridership going down over the last few years has largely been the result of the MTA's chronic mismanagement of the line's schedule. The 20 pre-2009 and post-2009 are like night and day. If the MTA stops dicking around riders in South Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil and Kingsbridge, then the old, fairly decent ridership levels will return. It's that simple. Maybe next you'll tell me all about the Q38/54/67 from back in the '90s when I lived in Queens? I don't need someone from up north in Riverdale condescendingly preaching to me about my own damn neighborhood. You've had a habit in the past of acting like the people in the southern part of the area don't exist, don't have needs that matter, or have simply thrown shade like when you made a snide remark two or three years ago about Riverpoint Towers (a building where I knew a lot of people) being "lower-end". Not everybody in 10463 lives in hoity-toity luxury and rides the express bus, you know? Quite a bunch of us didn't. Some of us worked, gasp, non-white-collar jobs for a living. You're quick to go do battle with the MTA over the slightest hiccup in express BxM1/2/18, or HudsonLink service, but seem to gloss over any issue with the local Bx7/10/20, especially the 10 and 20. Or insist on presenting your own narrative and negating the experience and suggestions of others who had different experiences from you. When you're right, you're right, but when you're not, me, checkmatechamp, MHV, KnightRider and others have called you out not on a whim, but for actual reasons. Imagine I moved to Staten Island tomorrow and started telling you "no, this is the problem with the S48, 52 and 61" ? Jesus.
  4. For what it's worth, I can recall several times at 211th when the northbound Bx20 failed to show up repeatedly and I ended up having to walk across Broadway Bridge, or through Inwood Hill Park and across the pedestrian walkway on Hudson Bridge. The schedule issues with the 20 got significantly worse after the 2010 cuts reduced it to a glorified peak shuttle. Something really needs to be done about that. Not everybody on Kappock, Johnson or Irwin is trying to get the , not everyone there is an after-7-AM or before-6-PM worker, and the Bx10 alone can't handle all the demand.
  5. Pretty much. If anything, my money would be on that mechanical situation, the fallout from it, coronavirus in general, and the usual MTA concerns about litigation being the reason for the change.
  6. Agree 100% with those sentiments. That and something really needs to be done with the Bx9. It's reassuring to see that there's still some riders in my old neck of the woods that know their stuff, as opposed to being a bunch of submissive sheep.
  7. But why would they cancel the whole thing over some random dude? That's what I don't understand.
  8. Whatever happened to those New Flyer D45 Vikings that NYCT used to run on the X51?
  9. Yeah, that whole area of Monmouth County (especially around Freehold proper) has always struck me as a transit desert. No southbound service on the rush-hour routes along US 9 in the AM, spotty service between Freehold and the shore (at best), and no westbound service at all. One would think a case could be made for bus service to Princeton Junction or Trenton, but considering the local politicians around there can't even agree on reactivating that rail line that goes through the town center, I think things will stay as-is for the foreseeable future.
  10. I'm pretty sure they're not doing the R1-9s because they want to limit crowding on account of concerns over this whole coronavirus thing. Personally, considering how many people have already been fully vaccinated in NYC and the surrounding area, I think it's a bit ridiculous for the government and public sector more broadly to continue mandating all sorts of limitations, but politicians gonna politick, as usual.
  11. Imagine the tsunami of foam if they ran it as an (brownM) to Metropolitan, or an to Chambers. Would be hilarious. Either way, they will be missed.
  12. Around the same time, somebody kept pulling the logos off the old cars on the (R42s) to expose the old decals underneath. Must've been somebody real dedicated too, cause at one point well over a majority of the old J/Z fleet in 2011-13 was rolling around with the old decals. Some dudes still be living in 1988 LMAO...
  13. TRUTH. Since the O5s retired, those C40s have been the only fleet I pay attention to anymore, hands-down. New Flyer keeping the old design around for that long is a perfect example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
  14. But yeah, I agree with the points being made by posters above that a lot of these issues transcend the political divide in this country. I've seen Democrats and Republicans alike do a shit job of running things, in NY, NJ, the rest of the Northeast and North America. At the end of the day, red-blue, liberal-conservative, capitalist-communist, First/Second/Third World, it doesn't really matter what system you have if the people in charge suck multiple nuts.
  15. There are definitely a lot of subtle cuts and shortchanging by the agency that don't get noticed, either by employees or passengers, unless somebody (activists, pols, investigative journalists) decides to call the MTA out on their BS. For instance, I vaguely remember a number of short-turns and put-ins that got quietly dropped after the MTA took over the PBLs- and this was before they even came out swinging the axe for the 2010 cuts. Last time the state government worked halfway-decent in Albany was probably when Carey ran the show back in the '70s. And that's not saying much, because him and the legislature didn't have much of a choice. Rockefeller left behind such a fiscal mess that NYS was basically in the same boat as the City at the time- staring defaults and bankruptcy in the face. I've heard people raise the specter of Boston every now and then when it comes to finance and large corporations more generally, which I find laughable. Mostly because their infrastructure isn't too great and the people there are the rudest bunch I've ever encountered.
  16. The R36 MLs on the were arguably in the best shape of all the Redbirds; I've heard this sentiment expressed both by personnel and enthusiasts alike. Small fleet, decent build quality, didn't get worked overtime the way TA did with the R26/28/29s. I remember the cars on the (2)/(5) being absolute garage towards the end.
  17. Yeah, I hear they were very consistent in the A Division about that. I know there was a brief period in 2001-02 or so when ML R33s got intermixed in consists with WF cars on the , but apparently that didn't last long. B Division seemed to be the complete opposite, for whatever reason. I remember being on a couple of R32/R38 and R40M/42 consists that bucked like crazy.
  18. Yeah, those must have been wacky times LOL.. That said, mixing fleets was a long-running practice, probably going back to the early days in the 1910s. Made sense for them in terms of operational flexibility, but as a passenger in the 2000s, I remember a lot of the mixed trains riding rough. I don't think General Electric and Westinghouse propulsion were meant to go together in one consist.
  19. When a route is run so bad as to only have 2 trips a day, then of course people are going to use other options. Factor in the coronavirus and that's how ridership can drop to zero. This wouldn't be happening if the 748 actually ran regularly enough to actually incentivize people to use it. Willful neglect on the part of NJT. If it's that badly run, then yes, of course it will drive potential riders away. Nobody likes waiting for a bus that won't show up, especially in the cold weather. Goes back to NJT's history of poor route management practices in certain areas (Passaic and Morris being one of them). They mismanaged the 75 into oblivion to the point nobody would ride it (winding routing, infrequent scheduling), and before they cut the 11 to Willowbrook from Bloomingdale back in the '80s I imagine it was the same thing. No-show buses, shitty schedules, and/or slow speeds will ruin even the best route. If Jersey leaders really want to get residents to ditch their cars (and the truth is that there are many local NJ pols who don't), they need to improve service. Forcing everybody towards NYC at the expense of cutting NJ-only service has not been a successful strategy over the last 20 years. All it's done is make things worse.
  20. Off the top of my head, I knew at least 2-3 people from the Pompton-Riverdale-Pequannock area who drove to work in the Paterson area. Don't know what's so surprising about that.
  21. To be fair, I used to see the Special Forces wannabes Eagle Team pop up semi-regularly on the eastbound Bx12 on the stretch from Third to Jerome Avenue, usually between 12 and 4 PM. One time the bus got stuck in traffic and red lights at a point where passengers could see the Eagle dudes waiting at the stop, 100 feet ahead. Some woman with two kids started crying because she had been caught before and hadn't paid the previous fine; was afraid of getting arrested this time around. Just as the inspectors boarded, a guy gave her his SBS ticket and slipped out the rear door unnoticed before the Eagle people got to the back of the bus. F**king irresponsible, if you ask me.
  22. I meant regular in the sense of running more than a single AM trip to Paterson and a single PM trip to Pompton. And as someone who's been in and out of that part of Passaic County for over 20 years and counting, sending everything to Willowbrook just isn't a genuine solution. Not everyone is trying to get to a mall in a dead-end part of Wayne. There's plenty of Passaic residents right now that are driving to work within the state (Paterson, Fort Lee, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark) at least in part because NJT only gives them the option of going to PABT. Not everyone works in NYC. Much the opposite in fact. Factor in the wait times at the mall, and it's no wonder that so many cars clog up the Jersey highways. Nobody wants to take public transit if it means making two transfers and taking three hours just to get across county lines.
  23. Although I'm generally skeptical to any initiatives that try to hold the MTA or the Albany bosses accountable (seeing how so many efforts have fallen flat on their face over the years), one thing I do feel very strongly about is that the ill-conceived mandate for biennial fare increases needs to be repealed, whatever amount of citizens' initiative or protest it requires. If memory serves me correctly, it was a last-minute corollary that came up late in the 2008 MTA bailout negotiations, and was forced on the agency by Malcom Smith and his caucus cronies in the State Senate (the same prick that was imprisoned on corruption a few years later). The relief turned out to be temporary anyway, because the state raided a similar amount in funding away from the agency not long afterwards, leading to the service cuts going through as originally planned. Given the exceptional (even by NYS standards) amount of bad faith, smoke-blowing, water-muddying, horse-trading and other crap that surrounded that particular deal, I would say the bullshit biennial fare increases are a prime candidate for elimination.
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