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That bus barely functioned when it was in service. Not gonna be preserved with a one-off powertrain – probably long-scrapped by now, I'd think.

This is a lot worse than was indicated. It wasn't just a piece that fell, it collapsed under the weight of a bus. Until that roof is load-bearing again, which could take a long time, they're going to have to do some serious rearrangements. This is not something you want to see.

Only thing I wonder is how regularly they've been maintained if they haven't seen service in 2-3 years. Any decent operation would have had them moving around a bit, but that's a while to go without regular service.

The individual boxes (terminals) are 26 3/4" by 6" with 22" wide rolls, and the routes are 27" x 9.5" with 24" wide rolls. But it's all part of a single unit and the boxes slot into the larger frame. Not sure of the dimensions of that frame exactly but I'd imagine it's a few inches larger in both height and width.

They have the whole of Amsterdam Depot for storage. Now, in terms of maintenance, and the limited budget devoted to Surface in the museum, that's another problem...

CNG depots are not going to add standard diesel buses to the permanent fleet.

I would not recommend flashing an expensive camera in the South Bronx, particularly around Mott Haven, any of those underground stations. The elevated lines are almost all fine, particularly in broad daylight, and the 1 and 6 are probably the calmest of all, with the 2, 4, and 5 behind that. As others have said, East New York/Brownsville is definitely not an ideal tourism spot, but at this point in NYC, almost everywhere is safe during the daytime. I think your wife's point is generally right – thieves do tend to profile based on age, clothing, etc. – but the risks are not anywhere near what they used to be.

Rumor is that it's not going to be the three stations mentioned but instead regular A and B division stations in Upper Manhattan and both ends of Brooklyn. It may be that Transit is testing this out with SMEEs and manual operation before constructing anything substantial for those CBTC lines. The mock-up looks pretty low-tech, for what it's worth.

Gotcha, yeah, that's what I was remembering. And Manhattanville does seems to be the last depot to do it with relative frequency, for whatever internal reasons. The 98 has so few runs anyway that maybe it's easy to keep track of extras that way. But I haven't seen an x-run in Bk in ages, and never at MTAB.

Am I dating myself, or was there not a practice years ago where 'x'-runs were used for put-ins or otherwise irregularly-scheduled service? I remember you'd have your regular departures and then a couple x-runs particularly during the PM rush that had run numbers of a totally different form. This was also back when a lot of OA depots had simple run numbers like 001-040 instead of three-digit runs like MTAB was using. Most put-ins borrowed from another depot would run with an x- run.

That can't be real, they required that? I never heard about that. Thought it was just that was providing access to those sites. I don't even see how that would be legal or enforceable.

Total political favor appointment like everyone else in this crooked administration! Ydanis has no clue about anything.

I don't think it's a bad idea. Of course with traffic on the BQE, it would be extremely difficult to schedule and plan that route and maintain consistent headways.

This is not accurate. Pedestrian deaths across the entire country fell during the 1990s and 2000s, probably as a result of stricter drunk driving regulations, different vehicle design and pedestrian impact guidelines for new cars. The murder rate has next to nothing to do with auto safety for pedestrians. You can quibble with the methods the city has taken to improve street safety but it's not useful to confuse the statistics about this stuff.

If that's cause an op parked too close and pulled out at an angle, somebody is already peeing in a cup at 2 Broadway...

Interesting enough the demo has the same 1/3 split front doors from the first BT&E order in 2011.

Saw 5310 and 5948 at TU now, TU stickers on 5310 (bus still in mostly original paint too).

Re: the M116, the rationale there seems to me that it never crosses into overly-affluent neighborhoods. All the north-south buses brush fancy neighborhoods at some point, and every other crosstown runs through pricier parts too. Not that Morningside Heights is cheap, but it's not the Upper East Side either. Now, if they just wanted to make it about serving low-income riders, I figured they would choose the M35. On the other hand, half the people on that bus wouldn't even notice it was now free, and you'd risk setting up an even more unpleasant situation for B/Os making it into a rolling homeless shelter. At least the 116 is a quick run and B/Os can fumigate at the end of their trips. The other alternative would have been to do a moon shot and really encourage transit use by choosing an important corridor – say the 14A/D – and making that free. There's an argument there that you would benefit ridership and congestion generally by putting people who don't normally uses buses on that bus, even if you might just decrease ridership on the L. Obviously that was too much of a fare commitment for them to move ahead with.

Personally, I think it's likely we see some large-scale change to river/ocean infrastructure, like a sea gate where the bay meets the ocean, rather than give up on such vast swaths of the city. The Rockaways will be in trouble regardless, but coastal Brooklyn and Manhattan could avoid this with a major gate like what we've seen in European cities. The cost would be immense, but still cheaper than the complete destruction and subsequent reconstruction of coastal land.

I read the double decker actually t-boned the Prevost, which would explain the damage to the side of the bus and the high injury count. Now, how it ended up hitting the rear of the bus too, who knows.

I think you're right here. But noting that depots have the capacity for repainting at least parts, and there's always the case of Zerega or elsewhere doing a partial repaint of a bus. Thinking of a bus like 6706 (MV) having the entire rear repainted a couple years ago, but nothing else touched, outside of the CMF cycle.

I mean, I wish, I want Proterra to succeed, but they're doing terribly. The SEPTA situation was a disaster and pointed to real structural problems with their design. And they only have one design.

So wild to think that entire fleet is going to have to be New Flyer, unless there's some major shift in the US market.

Speaking of speeds, those cameras on 6th Ave are really getting people. Saw an SI Prevost get caught by the camera earlier today, that op is going to have some 'splainin to do.

Damn, didn't see this one coming. This seems like it's only good news for New Flyer, which hasn't been too hot financially lately. The real money is going to go to whoever can figure out a serious electric bus line, especially with all the funds from the Infrastructure bill. I'd like to see Proterra succeed but they're a real mess on basic structural stuff right now, and New Flyer hasn't cracked it yet either.