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19 hours ago, Lil 57 said:
With the city cutting the budget from transportation and other industries due to the Covid-19 Crisis I wouldn’t be surprised if there is another 2010 style “doomsday” cuts to bus and subway service after this is over.
There will definitely be permanent cuts - the money is not going to be there, and ridership is going to be depressed also.
I fear that when the cuts are made, they are going to make the 2010 cuts look like a minor service reduction by comparison. I hope I'm wrong.
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Just my 2 cents, but I do not expect to see any R32 return to regular service. First, since it will be 12 to 18 months before we have a coronavirus vaccine available, I don't believe it would be fair to train crews to bring back a car class that puts C/R's in direct contact with passengers multiple times per trip. Second, the MTA is also facing a severe fiscal crisis from the pandemic, so I doubt they will have the funding to bring back 100 percent of the service that was cut, nor do I expect ridership to return to February 2020 levels for a long time. Hopefully we will get a formal R32 farewell run at some point in the future.
Again, just my 2 cents.
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The R32's are synonymous with the BMT Broadway lines in my memory. They have been largely absent from the Brighton Line during most of my railfanning years (I rode them far more often on the N as well as on the RR back in the day), but I agree that the Q would be a great symbolic route for the final run.
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8 hours ago, Cait Sith said:
Yeah.....about that.
Flatbush is down to 10 and Quill is down to 15. All of the buses have been marked OOS. When the last few pull into Flatbush in a matter of minutes, that may be a wrap for the entire fleet.
However, word is that Quill's RTSs might see service tomorrow, the NGs they recently got from Yukon are giving them issues. Fareboxes have supposedly been put back into two RTSs.Wow, just like that. Surprised that they didn't do a media event with one last RTS run, they way they publicized Blitz Fishbowl 5227 back in the day.
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1 hour ago, Coney Island Av said:
I'm sad to say this, but the D60HF era is finally over.
117, 118, 127, 5659 to scrap.
Farewell D60HFs, 1996-2019.
Those 2003 D60HF's lasted 16 years in hard service - that is a tremendous accomplishment for an articulated bus. Many transit agencies struggle to get the mandated 12 years out of an artic. Kudos to the TA mechanics.
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Glad to see this - many other transit agencies and other employers allow polo shirts as part of the summer uniform or dress code.
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The MTA is not the only source of information regarding Federal funding - there are various websites including FTA and New York state which show what projects are funded, how much, etc. Sometimes all you get is a project title so it may take some sleuthing to find out what exactly the project funding paid for.
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Schedules are a suggestion at best. To prove whether SBS is an improvement or not, a meaningful data sample of actual trip times before and after is needed.
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7 minutes ago, Eric B said:
Just as it figures; they're getting rid of 99's faster than the [remaining handful of] 96's.
Like were those completely GOH'ed (like the old 7000 RTS rebuilds) or something, where they're holding onto them so desperately as if they were new buses? (I know there was a plan to rebuild them, but I never heard of them doing it).
At this point, there really isn't much difference between a 22-year-old bus and a 19-year-old bus. If those remaining '96 buses are reliable and in decent condition, might as well retire the worst of the '99's first.
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54 minutes ago, Lil 57 said:
Random thought:
Why doesn't the
use 30-35 ft long buses on low ridership routes like the B39, S55/56 etc? Wouldn't that save money?
Very little savings in fuel expense running a short bus instead of a standard 40-footer. Driver gets paid the same which accounts for most of the variable expense of operating the bus.
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11 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:
It's enough to be at least half artic by the pick.
When is the pick?
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1 hour ago, Orion6025 said:
23 has been assigned to UP
Any idea if it will show up on Bus Time?
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6 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:
That could of been the 6:52 bus. However, the driver was being a douche about the time situation he f**ked up everyone else’s commute just to please the dispatcher or what have you.
A normal operator wouldn’t do that at all. Either that op doesn’t have pull yet to run hot and getting OK from dispatch. I’m in agreement with @Deucey. Just glad you got his ID.
I assumed it's the trip due to arrive at 7:02 since the OP referred to this in their second post.
I'm also hesitant to blame the BO without knowing the facts - perhaps they were previously disciplined for arriving early.
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If you have to catch the 7:00 a.m. ferry, why not just take the S52 trip that arrives at 6:52 and save yourself the rush?
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It was the Boston one, in their livery with their number on it. MTA just called it 0013 while they used it.
It never ran in passenger service, just followed Grand Av lines (like the B62) just to test out the Allison hybrid system
As FYI, the MBTA XDE40's have the newest version of the BAE HybriDrive system, not the Allison system.
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Yes, southwest of Buffalo.Western New York near Buffalo/Rochester/Geneseo area?
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I don't think its in Plattsburg, but New Flyer is supposedly building a new plant somewhere upstate.
It's a component manufacturing facility in Jamestown, NY.
New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. (“New Flyer” or the “Company”), the largest heavy-duty transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, announced the opening of a new component manufacturing and assembly facility in Jamestown, NY, located in Chautauqua County, in western New York State.The 40,000 square foot facility will start by manufacturing certain components for up to ten New Flyer Xcelsior® buses per week, which will then be assembled at New Flyer transit bus production facilities in St Cloud, Minnesota.1 -
That MBTA paint scheme is a classic!
Yes it is. Other than the stripe on top of the yellow band now being blue instead of black and different number placements, it is essentially the same scheme that was introduced by the T in 1972 and has been in use since then other than a period when the RTS's had a narrow yellow band. It would be like the MTA deciding to ditch its modern schemes and go back to the two-tone blue scheme for new buses.
Sorta reminds me of how MBTA had two '99 C40LFs built identically to the ones we had only that it was painted in their paint scheme and they kept it after the pilot testing for CNG buses was successful
A minor clarification - those two C40LF's (#6000-6001) were indeed built to exact NYCTA specifications but they were purchased outright by the MBTA. Same with its two Orion VI hybrids that were built identical to NYCTA's 06's.
The MBTA purchased these four pilot buses (and kept them) in order to test alternative low-emission buses for future purchases. The CNG buses 'won' and this led to a purchases of 15 additional C40LF's (built to MBTA specifications) and later purchases from Neoplan and NABI. Ironically, the MBTA has turned towards hybrids since then and most of its newer purchases are now hybrid-electric buses, although 150 of the new Xcelsior order are XN40's.
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One other question, what are those 2 lights in the back for? It's located near the fleet number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MBTA_2016_New_Flyer_XDE40_1847_Demonstration_Bus_in_NYC.jpg
Those are green emergency lights, similar to the amber emergency lights that MTA had on the front of all of its buses. The MBTA has these lights front and rear.
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According to this New Flyer press release, the five artics will enter service in April.
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The MBTA is currently receiving their XDE40's (along with XN40's and XDE60's), so it was probably a simple matter of diverting a bus that was already on its way from Minnesota to Boston.
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That's odd. I checked yesterday and the S79 was nothing but NG's.
Today, BusTime for the S79-SBS shows a bunch of LFS's, 4264, 4277 ... and 4057.
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4267 and 4277 are back on the S79-SBS this morning according to the tracker. The rest of the service are the LFS's.
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use 30-35 ft long buses on low ridership routes like the B39, S55/56 etc? Wouldn't that save money?
Fleet Swap Discussion Thread
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Posted · Edited by RailBus63
The $3.8 billion from the Feds is a stopgap at best. The MTA is projecting a $6 billion deficit by the end of the year. There will be a deficit even if all ridership returns within six months, which probably isn't happening (unemployment being a big reason). The state has its own deficit to worry about now and will not be able to give billions more to the MTA. Sadly, I think service cuts are very, very likely.