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the roster update has been edited on november 7th of 2009 . the new desinerline hybrids are 1308# is owned by michael j quill depot the manhattan division . 1302# went from mjq to manhattan ville depot . now i didnt belive this but 1303 # is owned by grand avenue depot . and the 9300's are still at lga . except 9303 it went to the ech scrap yard . and my favoite depot is ulmer park and that still has 256 buses that are banged up . i am going there today to get some shots . east new york still has 9331 and 9339 and hopefully they will next be shipped back home to ulmer park depot .

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lol ulmer park needs new buses the seats on the rts novas are killing me . they hurt your bottoms and if your tall oh boy sit down and your legs will get crushed so i have to stand up and people knock me over so thats why i rarley take the buses now . if i take a bus its the private one from my school or i ride with my uncle and i have a reserved seat . and so i take the train home now .

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the roster update has been edited on november 7th of 2009 . the new desinerline hybrids are 1308# is owned by michael j quill depot the manhattan division . 1302# went from mjq to manhattan ville depot . now i didnt belive this but 1303 # is owned by grand avenue depot . and the 9300's are still at lga . except 9303 it went to the ech scrap yard . and my favoite depot is ulmer park and that still has 256 buses that are banged up . i am going there today to get some shots . east new york still has 9331 and 9339 and hopefully they will next be shipped back home to ulmer park depot .

 

Which roster are you talking about?

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lol ulmer park needs new buses the seats on the rts novas are killing me . they hurt your bottoms and if your tall oh boy sit down and your legs will get crushed so i have to stand up and people knock me over so thats why i rarley take the buses now . if i take a bus its the private one from my school or i ride with my uncle and i have a reserved seat . and so i take the train home now .

 

That's one thing I dislike about the RTSs, my legs get jammed up against the back of the seat in front of me, that's why I sit in the sideways seats in the back or front.

 

I really wonder why Ulmer Park isn't getting any NGs, its fellow forgotten depots Flatbush, Jamaica, & Kingsbridge got them so why not UP? I feel UP should get JFK's & CAS's upcoming deliveries combined (4631-4677), I mean CAS has like 100 NGs already and JFK is like 60% hybrid now.

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That's one thing I dislike about the RTSs, my legs get jammed up against the back of the seat in front of me, that's why I sit in the sideways seats in the back or front.

 

Heh, this is why I always avoid the forward-facing seats on the RTS, I don't fit too well in those damn seats unless it's the rear corner seats, THOSE I can fit in without any problem thanks to the position of the real wheelwells!

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That's one thing I dislike about the RTSs, my legs get jammed up against the back of the seat in front of me, that's why I sit in the sideways seats in the back or front.

 

I really wonder why Ulmer Park isn't getting any NGs, its fellow forgotten depots Flatbush, Jamaica, & Kingsbridge got them so why not UP? I feel UP should get JFK's & CAS's upcoming deliveries combined (4631-4677), I mean CAS has like 100 NGs already and JFK is like 60% hybrid now.

 

But the thing is, if you make another depot a dual fleet, you have to train drivers to drive them and workers to maintain/fix them. I think it makes sense to have as few a fleet type as possible as well as the parts needed per depot.

 

Sure it doesn't seem fair to Ulmer Park, but not every depot has to have a NG. Plus they also have a pretty 'young' RTS fleet or better maintained group compared to years past with those #high 9200-low 9300 RTSs.

And before anyone says anything, I would not have minded if Ulmer was the one with the NGs over Flatbush. I still slightly prefer the RTS over the NGs.

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true upk i feel bad for and i was going past flatbush depot and i saw the fleet ops truck . and upk should get ngs hybrids . but ever since the 9300s went to lga they lost the good seats the tall seats from the xpress buses . i loved them seats and they were the best but now the rts nova seats are crappy . well once i hit 18 i am going to work for ulmer park . anyways my bday is december 28th and ima be 15 . any place i could find a application so when i get 18 ?

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But the thing is, if you make another depot a dual fleet, you have to train drivers to drive them and workers to maintain/fix them. I think it makes sense to have as few a fleet type as possible as well as the parts needed per depot.

 

Sure it doesn't seem fair to Ulmer Park, but not every depot has to have a NG. Plus they also have a pretty 'young' RTS fleet or better maintained group compared to years past with those #high 9200-low 9300 RTSs.

And before anyone says anything, I would not have minded if Ulmer was the one with the NGs over Flatbush. I still slightly prefer the RTS over the NGs.

I don't think the driver training issue is a main problem. It could also simply due to the possibility that Ulmer Park didn't want NG's. It was rumored that BP didn't want the 4245-4278 batch (I don't know how valid this is), and the same may apply to UP.

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Again, their RTS fleet has improved dramatically with the departure of those suburban seated buses and the arrival of the 5075-5124 [give or take] buses from Flatbush. So it is not like Ulmer is made up of old buses on their last legs. They can survive for a few more years as an RTS only local fleet even if it has to be the 4900-5200s all moving there.

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