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MTA Bus Operations: Deliveries, Moves & Transfers

T J Trainman

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This TOPIC is strictly for bus deliveries, moves & transfers.

Any discussion related to these moves should be done in the MTA Bus Operations: Fleets and Depots and Bus - Random Thoughts threads.

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Future ENY OP

Future ENY OP

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Speaking of retiring, there is another major fleet shakeup pending.... These new XN's are going to be on the first ever super-accelerated delivery. Meaning they are already in mass production and now scheduled for immediate delivery as soon as 673-677 complete pilot testing. If all goes according to plan this allows MTA to immediately retire the worse performing buses, rid WF of its diesels, and manage everything until the new artics come in. The Nova order may now come faster than expected, while the XD60's are almost ready to go yet have not been delivered, and are being delayed a bit. D60's were going to EN along with new buses, and FB was supposed to get more artics for the B46S.

 

With Flatbush being the first priority before the B15 and B82S needs, MTA wanted to send more artics there. However, they aren't really needed at this point with the current headways. So this is a toss up. This also means if it goes SBS, do they wait until LFSA's arrived, or do they make the depot all XD60 and transfer the current fleet...

 

Moving on to EN, there is now talks of sending 4700's from the Bronx instead of D60's. EN was already slated to get new ones in the future, so it would make sense to switch some things up and send down some 4700's instead.

 

 

Possible questions:

FB to get XD60's or they get more LFSA's?

Will ENY get XD60's from KB or GH [Temporarly] until the fresh delivery is scheduled for them?

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Fresh Pond

Fresh Pond

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Possible questions:

FB to get XD60's or they get more LFSA's?

Will ENY get XD60's from KB or GH [Temporarly] until the fresh delivery is scheduled for them?

From a logical standpoint, I would assume FB will get the Novas and ENY will get the XD60s, just of the fact of the similar parts they already have. FB already has Novas, and ENY already deals with the XD40s.
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Rick44

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I removed the Q70 SBS information from the roster - because I don't think it's starting tomorrow. It's a day prior to the service rollout and there's no press release on the MTA website, plus no new timetable released - while the other timetables have been released.

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BM5 via Woodhaven

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I removed the Q70 SBS information from the roster - because I don't think it's starting tomorrow. It's a day prior to the service rollout and there's no press release on the MTA website, plus no new timetable released - while the other timetables have been released.

Well the pick sheets for the fall pick show the Q70 as an SBS line. They have the machines and everything at all the stops as well. Also, the Q70 LTD and Q70 SBS are almost the same thing, with the exception of the Q70 SBS being branded and having off-board payment. We'll see what happens tonight, but it could potentially be delayed for whatever reason.

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LegoBrickBreaker101

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According to the pick, it started today. The runs are set up and even labled as SBS, so it appears that everything just needs to go online.... Looks as if it may go into effect Tuesday. Either way it's now internally and officially know as Q70SBS as of this morning at 12am.

 

Interesting... I figured it was an SBS from the fall pick, so I guess we'll see if the MTA says anything about the conversion before Tuesday. One of the buses out today also displayed the LaGuardia Link codes.

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