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If only our XN60s were anything like LACMTA's XN60s. LA always has the most fun buses in the country since they gear them for speed, but goddamn, their XN60s absolutely fly. New Flyer makes some crazy good stuff if you let them...

9565 out on the M7 today.

A little oopsie for anybody who catches it – 9566 is out on its first day of service, and whoever programmed the signs misspelled all of the readings (front, side) for Grand St.: Reads: M1 GRANT ST

Pretty much! Also, anybody catch the extensive subway scenes in the In the Heights? Looked to me like 9th Ave lower, which is a damn good location to use for a shoot, surprised nobody's thought of that before.

The W4 sign for the has finally been covered up by a new sign for the . And the lower level's new enamel pillar signs are now all installed. MTA left the homeless encampment in front of the station, but they did replace the sign lmao.

Have to say, not to sound like VG8, but MAN is West 4th eight different kinds of f**ked up sideways. Every time I walk into that station now, any of hour of the day, ten different junkies sitting on the stairs, set up in tents by the stairs, waiting by the turnstiles. The PD came and cleared out the tent city before the Pride stuff just to make it look cleaner, but it's all back as it was. I couldn't even walk out today cause some dude had OD'd and/or died and was face down over all the steps from 6th Ave. We all just walked up, saw that, turned for the other stairwell, and went through the fifteen different junkies lining the stairs there. This is all always the north part of the station on 6th. The other side has never been as bad.

Wait till they shatter all the screens too. The yellow poles are hideous and a failed design feature with no safety purpose on surface and transit vehicles, but so be it. I at least like the dark seats a lot.

Proterra just landed a big old order in Miami (by US, non-MTA standards), so they must be doing something right in some places!

Time to ask Gleason to give back those swing buses!

All things being equal, given the Proterra disaster at SEPTA, and the TA's relationship with New Flyer, I see the order going to New Flyer. Having said that, I still see Proterra eking out a lot of ground in the electric bus market generally. They've got a decent head start on NovaBUS etc., and in the warmer climates their fleet seems to do pretty well. Nobody's solved the winter problem yet though.

That happened ages ago, like 2010 or so, before the later 600s had even been retired yet. So it would have had to have been a 1993 100-300 series or a 1994-1995 400-500 series, whatever was still sitting around in Eastchester for the surgery. CS and WF were still running the 1996 order at that point. So yeah, transplant and everything else, that was an old, old bus. Rumor was they actually wired the hoodlum lights to work, even though the Bee Lines were specced without them. Never saw them flash myself though.

Why you gotta do us like that! 😂 Hope you've been having a good one. Sane man for leaving the rest of us nuts here, for real...

Buddy, read his own press releases before going on about 'lies and distortions.' https://www.mateothemayor.com/post/evict-citibike-street-docks-restore-parking His exact words are "EVICT CITIBIKE." Anybody with eyes can tell you that removing the Citibike stands on streets would take away about 70% of all Citibike locations, especially since there are specific rules about which sidewalks are and aren't wide enough to fit bike parking. The vast majority are not and there's not a single reasonable interpretation of his unreasonable plan that doesn't make it clear how much this would neuter Citibike capacity in the city. The Stringer plan is dumb, he is dumb, I agree. What is this 'unnecessary missing of green signals?' If anything, more streets are actually timed now to allow for you to make all the lights if you cruise at 25. I just enjoyed this myself a week ago – made every single green light up Amsterdam from 58th to 96th St. at around 5pm by averaging 25mph (sometimes 20, sometimes 30). It's pretty nice. If you're speeding too much, yes, you will miss the lights. But what you're describing is not consistent with the timing of the lights.

What a dumb statement. Have you seen the Republicans running? They are clowns. One of their proposals is to remove Citibike? Are you kidding me? Those two can remain in the circus. They don't even understand or believe in transit, and it's embarrassing to have that opinion on this transit-based forum. By the way, traffic speeds have fallen because of congestion and the rise of rideshare services like Uber etc. clogging the roads. Lowering the speed limit from 30mph to 25mph had essentially 0 effect on most of Manhattan and Brooklyn where the average speed on arterial roads was determined by traffic anyway, and people still drive at the same 30mph when the roads open.

Sure. My point is that they knew full service would return, they knew they were receiving the stimulus, and they knew they'd have fewer crews on hand. Why didn't they plan for this and the service impacts that have been the arbitrary result? It's not like we're running a modified pick right now with reduced but consistent frequencies; it's just random delays because they're missing trips. That's just bad planning.

Today, but every day. It's bizarre to me they didn't plan for this glut of retirements/sick days and think ahead with a new class, etc. They had 12 months to figure out what the system would look like on reopening and now they're caught with their pants down, daily. Feels like everything under that hack Feinberg is like this. Byford would never have allowed something as easily solved as staffing to ruin on-time performance, but here we are.

Two observations: 1) The is such crap every morning now. I wait 15 minutes + every time I try to take it to work 2) W4 lower is getting the same new enamel signs (with wheelchair symbol) as W4 upper. They're done by a private contractor, so they're much nicer than the stuff the Sign Shop turns out. They've done the southbound side only so far, so you get to see both eras of signs (mid-1990s and 2021) across the tracks.

9308 (museum car, now a bluebird) got tagged up by some tourist jabronis, by the looks of it. At least 9306 is untouched in the museum.

They almost never use real buses. Probably an insurance thing / MTA branding and in this case, avoiding endorsement. The only time I can think of a real bus being used was that film a few years back, The We and the I. Was about a bunch of kids in the Bronx and they filmed it on a KB or GH O7 NG if I remember.

Sorta funny, the TA installed these new signs at W4 to replace the 1990s overhead signs. Unfortunately, they followed the 1990s service patterns, so they read ACE Uptown to the Bronx and Queens.

Finally saw one of those new LFS HEVs. Them things are reallllly quiet. Nice, since the XD40s are actually fairly loud.

Are we sure it's been physically there? I'm seeing it as a new registration in the depot for the first time.

6705 remains a Manhattanville bus. 9680 is new to Manhattanville. There really haven't been that many OGs retired just yet. MV is down to 22 OGs, but keep in mind 6690, 6692, 6700, 6711, 6717, and 6726 are all at Quill now. MV does have a number of buses out for work which is also affecting the changeover process.

Sorry to hear that – what an awful thing to go through. Here's hoping...there has definitely been some limited evidence of the vaccine helping 'long covid' symptoms, but nothing conclusive yet. Hopefully you'll be one of the cases that speaks to that.

I mean, in the olden days, the only artic routes you'd ever seen standards on were the Bx15 and Bx36. All the Manhattan routes and the Bronx mainlines were pretty much consistently 60-footers.