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MTA Bus Operations: Deliveries, Moves & Transfers

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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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Ok. EC depot is fighting the transfer of the remaining RTS buses to LG. EC maintenance and drivers absolutely hate the hybrids. They do not feel that they are needed because they don't have many wheelchair customers, and they are much more maintenance intensive than that of the RTS.

 

EC wants their buses back or if nothing else they want 5175 to be the last they send and they want to hang on to the last of them. TA however has been trying to rid EC of the buses and have them and a few more go to LG and JK. The next order is for 41 standard buses, and EC would rather get those or the RTS instead.

 

Enter EN. The have now decided that not only do they want to keep the LFS, but they want more of them in addition to more RTS. They want to keep the 4800's and possibly get the rest from UP. They can't stand the 7000/7100's and want them gone. TA however will likely keep them there and sent the LFS back to Queens at some point

 

For now, TA wants the bus assignments as follows:

 

Note: XN40/XN60 assignments not yet confirmed.

 

LFS - Bronx, Queens, Staten Island

LFSA - Bronx, Manhattan

XD40 - Brooklyn, Manhattan

XN40 - Gleason (75), West Farms (63)

XD60 - Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan is now a possibility.

XN60 - pending funds or possible change to another non-CNG type bus. Gleason (36), West Farms (74)

XDE40 - Manhattanville (75)

XE40/Proterra/BYD or other, 10 Pilot buses, options for 40 more. Quill (M42), ENY (B42)

 

Specific depots and totals still have not been confirmed. Any and all transfers and assignments still pending final decision.

 

LFSA 5439-5530 GH, KB, with Tuskegee and Hale possible.

XD60 5987-6125 CS, EN, FB, with Hale, Quill, and Tuskegee possible.

XD60 4710-4799 possible FB and EN transfers.

LFSA 1200-1289 to be pulled from SBS service at some point to be replaced with new buses, and transferred to local lines.

 

 

Off topic and random: 4085 and 8341 are currently on the Bx12SBS

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Around the Horn

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Enter EN. The have now decided that not only do they want to keep the LFS, but they want more of them in addition to more RTS. They want to keep the 4800's and possibly get the rest from UP. They can't stand the 7000/7100's and want them gone. TA however will likely keep them there and sent the LFS back to Queens at some point

 

So a Xcesior swap with UP is in the works?

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Ok. EC depot is fighting the transfer of the remaining RTS buses to LG. EC maintenance and drivers absolutely hate the hybrids. They do not feel that they are needed because they don't have many wheelchair customers, and they are much more maintenance intensive than that of the RTS.

 

EC wants their buses back or if nothing else they want 5175 to be the last they send and they want to hang on to the last of them. TA however has been trying to rid EC of the buses and have them and a few more go to LG and JK. The next order is for 41 standard buses, and EC would rather get those or the RTS instead.

 

Enter EN. The have now decided that not only do they want to keep the LFS, but they want more of them in addition to more RTS. They want to keep the 4800's and possibly get the rest from UP. They can't stand the 7000/7100's and want them gone. TA however will likely keep them there and sent the LFS back to Queens at some point

 

For now, TA wants the bus assignments as follows:

 

Note: XN40/XN60 assignments not yet confirmed.

 

LFS - Bronx, Queens, Staten Island

LFSA - Bronx, Manhattan

XD40 - Brooklyn, Manhattan

XN40 - Gleason (75), West Farms (63)

XD60 - Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan is now a possibility.

XN60 - pending funds or possible change to another non-CNG type bus. Gleason (36), West Farms (74)

XDE40 - Manhattanville (75)

XE40/Proterra/BYD or other, 10 Pilot buses, options for 40 more. Quill (M42), ENY (B42)

 

Specific depots and totals still have not been confirmed. Any and all transfers and assignments still pending final decision.

 

LFSA 5439-5530 GH, KB, with Tuskegee and Hale possible.

XD60 5987-6125 CS, EN, FB, with Hale, Quill, and Tuskegee possible.

XD60 4710-4799 possible FB and EN transfers.

LFSA 1200-1289 to be pulled from SBS service at some point to be replaced with new buses, and transferred to local lines.

 

 

Off topic and random: 4085 and 8341 are currently on the Bx12SBS

 

Any update on the XN40 order?

 

Also, from the random thoughts thread, several artic routes are using standards today. The Q10 is pretty much all hybrids, as well as a majority of standards on the Q44-SBS and B44-SBS.

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Good thing LGA got the better batch of XD40s. Don't hear bad stuff about them. And as far as ECH wanting to keep the RTS, I'm not surprised. It seems like those buses are favored everywhere they go. Why is the RTS loved compared to hybrids and everything else? How does the RTS compare to the way our Orion V's were?

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