QM1to6Ave

I've heard stories here and there from B/Os who are pissed at their co-workers

It really is crazy how many glitches there are with this order

Will the AI also punish the lazy mechanics who stretch out repairs to take 3 times longer than needed LOL?

I think the wear and tear is the issue, since the monthly cards don't get swiped in a machine or farebox and get worn out. Plus the RR ticket gets replaced every month but the metrocard can be refilled over and over till it stops working. I still have cards go bad on me and need to be mailed in every so often

Yup, the bunching on those lines at all times of day and night is crazy, and it isn't due to trafffic or heavy passenger loads at most of those times. I think the BOs play games and purposely bunch up.

I learn something new every day! Kind of like when pilots open the cockpit windows on a plane, which never fails to make me do a double-take

I didn't realize that window opened wide enough for someone to jump through!

What a crazy story, i just heard it on the news. It sounded like tbe BO somehow got out through a window? I couldn't understand what they meant by that

I wish it was still around! I hate having to refill my card every damn week, when there is still no option for the Express Bus Plus Pass on OMNY. It would have saved me a lot of headaches over the years. I personally think part of the issue was that the MTA didn't want to deal with angry customers whose $269 Metrocard stops working and needs to be replaced. But that's the jaded person in me...

With all of those LIRR maintenance workers scamming the system for hundreds of thousands of overtime dollars, you'd think at least they could keep the windows clear! This isn't an issue on any buses, either, that I've ever seen, and they get lots of sun exposure over the years

That is so weird. It seems like LIRR uses different cleaning chemicals than MNRR as far as I can tell, which is a big factor here? It's so hard to believe that MNRR avoided this problem but LIRR can't figure it out.

What do you mean by “messed up”? Is this an issue on the M8/9 fleets as well?

Report his a** with the info you have (even better if yoy have the bus number), it shouls be enough to do an investigation

Top of a tractor trailer or big box truck? Hard to tell how high that is from the pic

Interesting. I've been off this week so haven't been taking the QMs but will keep an eye out next week

This car/display was so poorly advertised (I think it was officially a Queens tourism office or something) that nobody knew it was ever there in the first place lol.

The Law and Order premiere this week had a fake MTA Orion V, maybe that was this bus

Very nice!

Interesting, the article I read about this pilot plan for strollers indicated the seat would flip up, not be removed entirely.

Thank you thank you!! I'm keeping an eye out for the seat blocking issue..so far this week, every B/O has been blocking off a row, but hopefully that starts to improve The other bigger picture concern for me is the Redesign plan, and I saw you just posted about the final plan coming out in the next year. If the severe cuts they suggested to the QM1/5/6/31/35/36 west of 188th street are put into effect, forget about it, the lines will lose a lot of their usefulness for me and they will end up losing my business.

You are right, there have definitely been improvements, thanks to your advocacy (e.g., the QM1s not getting cut randomly like they used to, not throwing people off the bus at random stops, better signage, etc). However, as we've discussed, the CP B/Os' horrible behavior has really soured my attitude towards the CP routes, and traffic levels in general have become nearly intolerable. If the QV EXP routes were more convenient to me, I'd take them every day, no question, and deal with the traffic. But the horrible CP B/Os give me stress every time I get on a bus with a new B/O and have to prepare for some sort of argument or problem with them.

I'm trying to figure out if subway surfing has actually increased recently or if there are just more people recording and posting the videos of these idiots. It was only like 2-3 weeks ago that that teenager had his arm amputated while subway surfing and this nonsense continues. Sheesh.

I always wonder about that, especially when I see traffic agents directing cars into the bus lane sometimes when traffic is heavy, and I wonder if those cars get tickets and need to fight them and try to prove that a traffic agent directed them into the lane

Wow, that's really bad. Unbelievable. Nothing seems to be improving so my days of using the express bus are goijg to come to an end

Yup, like that QM5 driver who pretended he was only going to 34th and 3rd, and we ultimately got him in trouble for these games. These bad apples ruin the credibility of all BOs