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Lmao. That's pretty great. What the C40s could have looked like if 1) we didn't pull the switcharoo with New Flyer and 2) the Cuomo wraps were used for post-2011 buses as planned. Pretty nifty attention to detail that they actually planned a wrap for that. Guess they modeled it after the 9500s with the white stripe!

Goddamn the FB group got wrecked lmao. That thread on the LFS HEV was like an army of Gen Z coming to torch the village. I feel like an old head when to me I'm still one of the kids in this community... This is why I keep off the socials...

Lmao the entire Manhattanville fleet. Damn! I mean, two things can be true at once. On the one hand, MV is getting a whole new fleet. On the other hand, MV hasn't seen a delivered-new fleet since 2006, or 15 full years. Has any depot in the system been that long? Maybe Eastchester or some of the MCI express fleets? Can't think of a single local depot.

I have to think they need the 32s, especially with the R211 delays and the R46 MBDF crashing.

Hey now, stop and frisk was useless. They stopped that and literally nothing happened. You can look at the numbers, from 500k stops a year on down and crime went nowhere. Crime actually went down. This conversation is different though...whole separate situation now.

I really wish we still had 32s on the to watch the new pace in the Cranberry tubes. The old 30mph limit is now 45mph, I understand. Not sure if that just looks like a GT40 closer to the bottom or what. Those cars were getting to 42 or 43 in the past anyway, but that was with the old timers.

Jury is out though – for all the people that like the flexibility, you have a ton of people miserable with the lack of community and miserable with the blurring of work/home schedules. Think about those horror stories about Goldman and the other investment banks lately; the cardinal innovation of WFH was basically turning a 60-hour work week into a 90-hour one. That kind of thing is not sustainable or popular long-term. Not to mention that the real estate industry is positively begging its higher-end clients to come home, and a lot of things are at stake economically if they lose out on all their tenants. Also, for most New Yorkers, owning a car is not a pleasant experience, and if you can commute to work without using it, you choose to. Nobody likes sitting in traffic forever, paying tons for parking, doing the alternate-side dance, etc. It's a serious additional expense for a lot of people, and leaving aside the obvious environmental issue, it's pretty inconvenient as a daily commute. I wouldn't bet on this continuing. Something like the Holland Tunnel traffic of late, for example – nobody in their right mind is going to prefer the two-hour delays we see now as opposed to NJT once things are back in the swing of it.

No evidence to me that any of this is permanent. Will the return to full ridership be slow? Absolutely. Will we see the same ridership as 2019 this year? No. Next year? Probably not. 2023? Getting warmer. This will take time, but what this article suggests is a structural change. There has been no such change. Nor has there been any real return to the city yet – offices are still empty, and residential rentals are still at decade-lows in many parts of the city. Someone like me is a perfect example: I used to take the subway 5-7 days a week, and I haven't taken the subway once during the pandemic. I bike and walk everywhere, and I go to far fewer places than I used to. But I'm one week into my first shot and after two weeks I'll be back on the subway and returning to my routine. Within a few more weeks I assume my work will reopen in-person and I'll be commuting. Lot of people are on the same schedule. Wake me when the city's back in full swing and then we'll talk about people "abandoning" public transit.

Not on the Random Thoughts thread...

Pepperidge Farm Remembers when Chance said 'now I'm woke I'm wide awake' and we all thought it was a good thing. Now it's corny as hell and the people practicing it can't see the forest for the trees.

Moreso, because now there's outdoor dining on every street (which is a good thing, generally, but man is it a pain to walk anywhere).

Got mine on Friday. Dumb luck at a pharmacy throwing out leftover doses... How you feeling?

Well, damn. Here I was excited to see 2874 with the old rollsign on the . But some dickhead stole the roll out yesterday.

I found myself just using the terminology they used fifty or sixty years ago, which was correct then and doesn't need to be fixed. When it's in the borough, you say the destination (Harlem, Far Rockaway, Coney Island); when it's out of the borough, you say the borough as the destination and the cardinal direction (Northbound) as the direction of travel.

B/O said there was a car parked there.

All props to the B/O who was turning. Not his fault, seemed like a nice guy, dealt with a**hole guy filming it, sense of humor.

4580 still with the KB stickers on at MV. Wonder if that one is staying or not. They're usually slow but wouldn't be surprised at a loan either.

This article (and the one about the calls for / service restoration) brought to you by the R32 car class.

This is the kinda question I'd give its own thread! Those new buses, to me, all sounds the same. I'd go DD50 RTS (ideally 1996 model, with the air starter and the different gearing), then O7 CNGs, then O5 CNGs, then 6v92 RTSes. Everything after that is eh. The O7 CNGs were just hilariously loud, I got a kick out of them every time. The non-CNG O5s never did it for me, Bee-Lines even less so. D60s with the EGR were pretty great.

Lmao, you remind me of the old GMCs running back in 2001-2002. Those buses would also shut down at idle, except that wasn't about saving fuel! Had to wait for the whoosh of the air starter and all the interior lights to go on and off, and then you'd to cross your fingers...

Most of those are never-ever repainted, and still wear the as-delivered original scheme. Black lining under the windscreen, angled stripe at the rear, and some even have the old "Wide Right Turns" RTS still on the back. Maybe four or five buses in the series were repainted. 4251 was repainted but 4259 is still in original paint.

Those might be some of the ex-SI NGs that arrived with missing or damaged plates. I don't think they're replacing plates across the system, just slowly transitioning with the new orders.

Yeah, they're definitely not supposed to stop at University and I'm not even sure if they're supposed to stop at Bway. May just be 8th/5th to Astor. At least they aren't showing 12th and 10th, which have been wrong on the maps for as long as I can remember.

Lol, I'm dating myself. But for those bunch of years when it was the 5 and the 55, no clarity.