MHV9218
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On 3/18/2024 at 10:45 PM, RSMG106 said:
There was a partial roof collapse at Kingsbridge, so they are moving buses to both Gun Hill and Manhattanville until repairs are done.
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.
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4 hours ago, EastFlatbushLarry said:
7 buses with no reimbursement fee for approximately 3+ years of service (which will more than likely be more than 3, depending on the depot & runs they run on)
p.s. they previously ran in Vermont of all places. there's no way they're beat to shit. sounds like perfection to me.
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.
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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.
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6 hours ago, Ale188 said:
Museums can't fit that much stuff in, yk?
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...
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7 hours ago, xD4nn said:
4119, 4278, 4601 are not daily loans. They are most likely long term loans.
CNG depots are not going to add standard diesel buses to the permanent fleet.
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On 12/23/2023 at 8:03 PM, PhilFromCA said:
Thanks. Nothing in The Bronx?
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.
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6 hours ago, danielhg121 said:
Damn. I’m guessing this is sorta phase 1 of PSD’s.
are you privy to which division this will occur on or which stations and lines?
Thanks for the update!
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.
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5 hours ago, EastFlatbushLarry said:
it was definitely an OA thing before the creation of MTA Bus.. and it was definitely utilized thru Local 100 before the consolidation, specifically with wildcat runs & lines with split runs iinm. these days I've only seen x-runs as extras from Manhattanville (specifically on the M98) aside from that, these days it's hella rare.
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.
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On 1/9/2024 at 8:50 PM, EastFlatbushLarry said:
not really. x is not used with run numbers internally (at least on paddles)
x is usually used as a placeholder. for example, if a b/o has run number 021, some operators will display it as x21, 2x1 or 21x. in this case, it's used as a placeholder for zero, for any assortment of reasons, especially when it pertains to the manual run boxes. sometimes, when hitting potholes, the run box's numbers will slip, from zero to x or from 5 down to 4, etc.
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.
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8 hours ago, B35 via Church said:
On the drive home, I would constantly see the vaccine route for Brooklyn along ENY av; the B98v or whatever.... It went to Medgar Evers College.... Once I read that you had to have a vaccination card to board the thing, I immediately withdrew any interest in wanting to fan the thing.... Matter fact, I would scowl every time I saw it.
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.
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11 hours ago, SoSpectacular said:
It also does not help that he put one of the most unqualified people in charge of the DOT. Not a single bit of background in transportation infrastructure. LOL
Total political favor appointment like everyone else in this crooked administration! Ydanis has no clue about anything.
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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.
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2 hours ago, Robert Spire said:
Yet the city is doubling down on street redesigns despite pedestrian deaths being more correlated with overall crime than anything. Murders and pedestrian deaths went down in the 1990s and 2000s without Vision Zero ever being a thing.
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.
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3 hours ago, RSMG106 said:
5471 from Gun Hill is out of service due to scaffolding splitting the artic joint in half.
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...
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6 minutes ago, NBTA said:
I wonder if that’ll be the order for the Nova depots. Makes sense with the uniformity.
Interesting enough the demo has the same 1/3 split front doors from the first BT&E order in 2011.
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Saw 5310 and 5948 at TU now, TU stickers on 5310 (bus still in mostly original paint too).
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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.
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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.
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9 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:
Update from the crash: 71 people were injured, with 36 needing hospitalization. The number has fluctuated throughout the night, so the final number may change. More importantly, it seems that the injuries were not life threatening. The article does mention that some passengers from the tourist bus had to be removed from the windows.
As for how the incident occurred, the double decker ran past a red light at 1st Avenue & East 23rd Street, rear ending MTA Bus 2481 in the process. The Prevost suffered multiple broken windows on the right of the unit (The ones on the left were intact) but otherwise the unit didn't receive heavy damage. The double decker did see significant damage on the front of the unit. For now the driver of the tourist bus will receive a summons.
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.
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4 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:
Buses don't go through a repaint as soon as it already got one. 8336 already had the new paint applied, in the summer of last year, by the time the swap with Gun Hill occured like @xD4nn said. This is just a case of seeing a bus that has been kept clean.
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.
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4 minutes ago, RandomRider0101 said:
We could start seeing Proterras in the near future. Since Nova's leaving the U.S. Market, those 5 electric demos we were supposed to get from them can probably become Proterra ZX5 demos. I think it's a possibility.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.