Joel Up Front

Maybe it's me, but I WILL go out of my way to get a paper ticket. I like putting it in my wallet and just giving it to the collector/conductor. I sure wouldn't trust my phone with something as vital as a Monthly or hundreds of dollars.

"Temorarily" locked and it "consernes" your account?

Yet he had no problem expanding the speed cameras, enforcing them when school is out. People are still walking into the street with traffic barreling down at them without a care in the world. Funny how he's so quick to blame cars when people just think they can walk and bike wherever? He can stay in Iowa, for all anyone cares.

Do fareboxes accept pennies? I annoyed B/O's sometimes whenever I paid in dimes and nickels because I only had $1.00 in quarters.

I didn't know 15k population was considered a small town. Are upstate places like Smyrna (207) and Greigsville (209) even populated by her standards?

Change or not, it doesn't excuse the dropped runs, constant bunching (even on 2 bus/hour routes) and chronic lateness. I'm seeing rush hour buses packed far less than they used to be.

What was going on last night on the Culver Line? I was on the Belt and noticed traffic slowing drastically by CIY underneath the tracks. workers were sawing through the metal but I doubt it was anything heavy considering there were probably only a dozen employees and two trucks there. I'm on the Belt a lot more than I admit (have been doing so since I was a kid) and I never remember that structure being anything but rusty and looking like it was going to give.

NG #1718 on the n4x was sitting in the middle lane at Merrick Road and Lincoln Avenue in RVC. I noticed it try to start twice but it never moved.

I thought I was going to hear about that person getting hit on the Babylon Branch, but this was something else because I used to ride the train through there daily. I'm baffled that the people there don't want to elevate the tracks.

Considering their inspections consist of "does the bus start and move," I think so. Someone's making massive bank from this entire thing, else it would have failed by now.

I saw XN40 1923 on the back of a tow truck in Oceanside earlier.

The NGs sound like their transmissions are grinding apart and I've seen a lot of broken down 3G's. I don't live far enough north to see the XN60s but the XN40s seem to be doing the best out of the fleet. They'd be doing a lot better if I didn't keep seeing them involved in minor accidents.

NICE had decent momentum going into 2013, but somewhere after that people started jumping ship in massive numbers.

If buses rarely reach 20 MPH already, what's going a fraction of a mile an hour faster going to do?

An old NG on the N32 by Hempstead Avenue was surrounded by no less than three Lynbrook PD SUVs with a fire department vehicle nearby last night. Was this an accident?