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Usually when they call you in for the medical they're going to include the money order since that will most likely be the same day for your final processing should your medical check out. I don't know how it's being done these days but that's how I did it. I'm on it too this pick. It really was not as bad as it is now when I started over two years back. It's really sharpened my skills driving those artics though LOL

Some of the overpasses except for a few are seeing a significant amount of work south of Atlantic Ave, especially Liberty Avenue, 109 Ave and Rockaway Avenue

It is nearly impossible to even be put in place these days with the amount of traffic that does spill over into any surrounding streets. They need to revert most of these traffic signal changes to what they were before because spending 2 minutes or more stuck at one light is infuriating!

Transit needed to get articulated buses for the new conversions and they needed to keep the fleet New Flyer as Brooklyn is primarily New Flyer in regard. What better option than those?

It's happened before

Backing articulated buses (ESPECIALLY the newer ones) is a pain in the ass. They also aren't very favored by operators due to their size (many will tell you that they're not suited for our streets and traffic conditions) and the fact that runs tend to get cut whenever a line is changed up to handle such vehicles(they say one articulated bus replaces two standard buses roughly). When Ulmer Park was gearing up for the B1 conversion the writing was on the wall, There was a fair bit of backlash concerning it. The following system pick I was actually surprised to see Ulmer Park have so many open spots while Grand and Gleason were getting picked into heavy.

There is only one setting regarding the fare amount when logging into the fare box. Computers will glitch. I wouldn't worry about it, once the MetroCard gets phased out they're pretty much done. Other than that, you can't program a farebox wrong unless you put in the incorrect route (which most of the time won't let you based the run/route number you input) or you hit the wrong button for the fare setting (Local/Express) The announcement system is directly tied to the Clever Devices unit that manages the GPS positioning. It goes offline, bus is ghost. It needs to be reset.

I was looking at the bus in the depot earlier and I was surprised at how little damage was sustained. They'll have it back up and running in no time.

Sounds like a normal day on the B68 LOL

This is more or less how the questions on the actual exam are like. I thought they were administering the BOSS exams today. Strange.

It's currently the laughing stock among the operators...

That ball would have to fall in DOT's court and the way they've set the streets up to slow traffic in general down. All that congestion that results is never any good for the buses and emergency vehicles...

That's the first thing they'll ask you when you call it in. "Was your bus moving?" Just pull that brake and sit it out.

The reduced weekday schedules for certain holidays (and Black Friday) for NYCT aside from Staten Island and MTA Bus are the same each time. Nothing really changes between them. One thing I've always thought would be a good idea would be to use e-ink displays on the bus stops that can be easily updated on a whim, very much like those e-ink displays stores like Best Buy uses for their price tags. I thought that was pretty damn neat the first time I noticed them.

To be fair, most of that gridlock traffic was mainly limited to Manhattan, where the majority of the city's economical activity takes place. The outer boroughs, not as much, save for the commercial hubs like Downtown Brooklyn, Downtown Flushing (and Jamaica Ave), Fordham Road and the like where everyone's flocking to go shop in the area. Those areas definitely needed some intervention in terms of minimizing car traffic. Things like the Merrick Boulevard bus lane in Queens were poorly thought out as it is now near impossible to use the street going either direction as cars are now restricted to just one lane and it takes multiple light signals just to get past intersections due to how short some of the greens can be. I would have expected things to pan out like the Main Street bus lane which was pretty much done the same way but the demographics of each area is different so driving habits will differ. Personally I used Merrick in the past to avoid using streets like Linden with that nasty choke point under the elevated LIRR structure or the Belt Parkway/South Conduit which would be going out of my way, but there's also things like food places I once frequented in the past that are now hard to get to and let's face it, you aren't going to take the bus to go get food then have to wait for another just to get back because like the rest of the city who despise Transit for reasons, time is money.

7300s are all 40-foot Xcelsior diesels. Only the 4700s are articulated

No one said anything about bringing the speed limit back up as you can still hit 30 casually even without knowing it based on how open the road is. The bigger question is, why did everyone decide to up and buy cars last year? Registrations went way up! The exact opposite of what the mayor was trying to prevent. The subways and buses were perfectly fine to ride, but with the pandemic upon us, everyone was basically fear-mongered into staying away from public transit, not to mention the increased transparency on what's been happening on the subways making it into the news everyday like it never happens. We are never going to fix that issue.

The city was ultimately designed around the use of the personal vehicle, just as how the rest of the country was built around it with the introduction of the interstate system. To suddenly uproot that is a massive undertaking and I do believe we are going about it the wrong way. Instead of trying to claw back all this space for pedestrians and cyclists like madmen we should have built up/restored what we have already for our existing public transport system FIRST and then focus on trying to get less people driving. But the way they're going about this now, there's no clear compromise for even leaving driving behind. People already complain about service as it is and's it even worse considering we are still climbing our way out of a particularly dark period of our history.

It's something to do with the software network the division uses to keep track of all the buses. It also affects us on the road as the buses won't have their information displays or announcements working correctly at times. They're still working on that, but it's slow going. I've had buses that called out the limited stops when I was running as a local!

To add on to that, every traffic calming measure is just going to further slow down traffic. Bus lanes just shift everyone onto one lane and the line of traffic just gets longer. No one is just going to give up driving without some kind of incentive. Traffic has to keep moving and should not be hindered.

1 year from the day you first started

According to our union reps at Gleason, Ulmer Park wasn't able to handle the entirety of the D99 shuttle so two pieces each have been given to Gleason and Flatbush. The Gleason pieces have pretty odd times and are staggered so you'll most likely see one bus from each depot at any given time

Street parking is pretty good in the area

Lol that's impressive

Very much correct. Running times and trips are adjusted based on on-time performance during trips. Too many buses running ahead of schedule means less buses can be put on the line. Too many buses running behind schedule and adjustments will have to be made for the next pick. The union and some bus operators will warn the rest of us that running hot will affect our work because runs do get cut.