E For Erica Posted October 19, 2014 Share #13401 Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) Some B/O's are really rude it's sad. Yesterday I was trying to catch 6300 on the B47 and the driver looked dead in my face and drove off. Later on in the evening walking home a B48 was coming down the block & drove past this lady that was jumping & waving. She thought it was the express and I had to tell her why he really drove past. Because he's a dick. Smh. Edited October 19, 2014 by E For Erica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM5 via Woodhaven Posted October 19, 2014 Share #13402 Posted October 19, 2014 The QM10 goes to LeFrak City which is anything but affluent. Rego Park isn't affluent either. Forest Hills is however affluent, especially the estate area, but I don't get the impression that the Forest Hills folks use the express buses like that. In other words, they don't even bother with the express buses like that. They'll either drive or take the LIRR in and Rego Park certainly isn't all that great in terms of money wise anyway. And that's the reason most people don't use the QM4 on the weekends to the extent that they could. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewFlyer 230 Posted October 19, 2014 Share #13403 Posted October 19, 2014 And that's the reason most people don't use the QM4 on the weekends to the extent that they could.I thought people don't bother with the QM4 because the Q64 is much more frequent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM5 via Woodhaven Posted October 19, 2014 Share #13404 Posted October 19, 2014 I thought people don't bother with the QM4 because the Q64 is much more frequent. That too. However, the LIRR fare is $4.00 on the weekends, and $5.75 during off peak weekday periods. You will see more people utilize that than the QM4. The Q64 is even more frequent, so thays another factor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13405 Posted October 20, 2014 That too. However, the LIRR fare is $4.00 on the weekends, and $5.75 during off peak weekday periods. You will see more people utilize that than the QM4. The Q64 is even more frequent, so thays another factor. That's what I've been taking advantage of these days. Queens Blvd has been a hot mess this entire week. I've been getting on the train at Kew Gardens, no hassle & no stress. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13406 Posted October 20, 2014 That's what I've been taking advantage of these days. Queens Blvd has been a hot mess this entire week. I've been getting on the train at Kew Gardens, no hassle & no stress. lol... The subways are a mess in general, so $4.00 is definitely a steal on weekends. I think it should be more than $4.00. $5.00 makes more sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q43LTD Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13407 Posted October 20, 2014 Took my daughter to the Transit Museum yesterday. Still looked the same as it did when I last went in 2003. Of course, she had fun pretending she was driving the buses. Of course, the information has not been updated since then. They still had Hudson Pier as an active depot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13408 Posted October 20, 2014 Took my daughter to the Transit Museum yesterday. Still looked the same as it did when I last went in 2003. Of course, she had fun pretending she was driving the buses. Of course, the information has not been updated since then. They still had Hudson Pier as an active depot LOL... That's pretty funny... I went down there years ago as a kid and I used to pass by there when I worked for the and had to go from 370 Jay Street over to 130 Livingston. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhattanville Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13409 Posted October 20, 2014 The New Flyer 312 THO!!! that transmission it has has a great ass whine. I wish MTA could order more C40LF's to replace the early 2000s orion cng's but they aren't 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q43LTD Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13410 Posted October 20, 2014 LOL... That's pretty funny... I went down there years ago as a kid and I used to pass by there when I worked for the and had to go from 370 Jay Street over to 130 Livingston. LOL...and still had Castleton and Yukon as the only depots on Staten Island 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTA Bus Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13411 Posted October 20, 2014 I did not know there was a P/R code for this.IMG_0272 by MTA Bus, on Flickr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel The Cool Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13412 Posted October 20, 2014 5220 has the Orange Sign now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13413 Posted October 20, 2014 The B49 is running an artic as of now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q43LTD Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13414 Posted October 20, 2014 What's the number? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13415 Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) 5330, the 44 SBS bus as its on bustime, saw it at Oriental Blvd Edited October 20, 2014 by Calvin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHV9218 Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13416 Posted October 20, 2014 What's the number? 5330. It's at Kingsborough as of 4:15. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Pond Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13417 Posted October 20, 2014 So now 5220 has a Hanover sign as well. It's on the M57 if anyone interested to look for it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYSubwayBuff Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13418 Posted October 20, 2014 Yeah bout the artic on the 49 It's been happening every day for bout a week. I pass it almost every day on the BM3. I believe the run number is X2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13419 Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) This shit is exactly why you get well over a hundred people around this time of day (I came home a little early today, otherwise I'd have likely been waiting for one of those FIVE B12's heading back west.....) waiting at the first stop over there for the B12 over at Alabama.... Notice you do not see ONE bus heading back towards Lefferts Gardens ! (the screenshot cuts off just before alabama, but there was no WB bus there anyway) While I was on the B12 I got off of, THREE of those buses you see spread out b/w Saratoga & M. gaston were at the rutland rd stop at the time (it's what prompted me to check bustime when I came home).... When I got off that same B12 (albany/clarkson), there was another EB bus at the albany/clarkson EB stop, and yet another bus at 39th/clarkson (which is 2 blocks away)..... That accounts for five of the 6 buses you see in the screenshot. Of the 3 buses that were literally front-to-back at rutland, two of them were absolutely crushloaded.... the other one had a moderate crowd.... Edited October 20, 2014 by B35 via Church 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E For Erica Posted October 20, 2014 Share #13420 Posted October 20, 2014 The Hanovers on the RTS's are impressive but I would be really impressed to see Multi Colored Luminator LED's same size as the ones on the Orions & 7090. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Pond Posted October 21, 2014 Share #13421 Posted October 21, 2014 Yeah bout the artic on the 49 It's been happening every day for bout a week. I pass it almost every day on the BM3. I believe the run number is X2 They're extra runs on the B49...much like what the Bx7 is doing now, I think (could be wrong) its bidirectional. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 21, 2014 Share #13422 Posted October 21, 2014 This shit is exactly why you get well over a hundred people around this time of day (I came home a little early today, otherwise I'd have likely been waiting for one of those FIVE B12's heading back west.....) waiting at the first stop over there for the B12 over at Alabama.... Notice you do not see ONE bus heading back towards Lefferts Gardens ! (the screenshot cuts off just before alabama, but there was no WB bus there anyway) While I was on the B12 I got off of, THREE of those buses you see spread out b/w Saratoga & M. gaston were at the rutland rd stop at the time (it's what prompted me to check bustime when I came home).... When I got off that same B12 (albany/clarkson), there was another EB bus at the albany/clarkson EB stop, and yet another bus at 39th/clarkson (which is 2 blocks away)..... That accounts for five of the 6 buses you see in the screenshot. Of the 3 buses that were literally front-to-back at rutland, two of them were absolutely crushloaded.... the other one had a moderate crowd.... There's actually 6 of them which makes even worse. How often are those buses scheduled to come at whatever time that is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted October 22, 2014 Share #13423 Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) There's actually 6 of them which makes even worse. How often are those buses scheduled to come at whatever time that is? The time of that post yesterday was within minutes of me uploading that screenshot; so around 7pm more or less... How often are they scheduled around that time? About 7 minutes or so.... I can tell you right now that buses do NOT arrive at Alabama av every 7 minutes around 6-7pm.... They usually arrive in 2's, sometimes even 3's, and it's usually a 15-20 min. wait for a bunch of 2 or 3 to occur.... So much so that if I come off the LIRR & see a crowd of about 50+ already there, I'm not pushing &/or forcing my way on, on the sly, to get on that first bus.... I'm not standing from Alabama av to Utica av, f*ck that. About 2 weeks ago, I don't know wtf happened, but it got so bad that an op on the B25 (which terminates across the street from the B12) made that illegal U -urn & started picking up B12 passengers for the trip back west (I got on this bus, since the B12 ahead of it was crushloaded).... Ridiculous. The B25 B12 I got on left crushloaded also (luckily, I was amongst the first few people to get on, so I got a seat).... The MTA truncating the B12 from City Line to Alabama av made sense, but it was a gift & a curse at the same time... The real problem is, they should have extended the B45 or the B65 to Alabama av to help out the B12 b/w Alabama & St. John's, because a significant enough an amount of people are getting off at Rockaway av for the B60, or the projects that the B12 passes by before it ever hits Pitkin.... I'm just going to say that the B12 doesn't need more service, it needs a supplement on the eastern portion of the route which is where I believe the problem starts (because more riders board/disembark at more of the intermediate stops on the eastern portion of the route), whenever they begin to start (not) arriving at the posted interval/headway.... You can clearly hear people sucking their teeth when the buses that have been washed (meaning they're OOS for the rest of the day) are headed back to (one of) the lots (I'll admit there are a lot of buses that pass by), but that's not what bothers me.... What irritates me to no end, is when I see B45's & B65's coming out of the depot to deadhead to St. John's/Ralph - along ENY av, to boot.... Edited October 22, 2014 by B35 via Church 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz Posted October 22, 2014 Share #13424 Posted October 22, 2014 so apparently the hybrid to diesel conversions for MTAB are not gonna happen now... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 22, 2014 Share #13425 Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) The time of that post yesterday was within minutes of me uploading that screenshot; so around 7pm more or less... How often are they scheduled around that time? About 7 minutes or so.... I can tell you right now that buses do NOT arrive at Alabama av every 7 minutes around 6-7pm.... They usually arrive in 2's, sometimes even 3's, and it's usually a 15-20 min. wait for a bunch of 2 or 3 to occur.... So much so that if I come off the LIRR & see a crowd of about 50+ already there, I'm not pushing &/or forcing my way on, on the sly, to get on that first bus.... I'm not standing from Alabama av to Utica av, f*ck that. About 2 weeks ago, I don't know wtf happened, but it got so bad that an op on the B25 (which terminates across the street from the B12) made that illegal U -urn & started picking up B12 passengers for the trip back west (I got on this bus, since the B12 ahead of it was crushloaded).... Ridiculous. The B25 B12 I got on left crushloaded also (luckily, I was amongst the first few people to get on, so I got a seat).... The MTA truncating the B12 from City Line to Alabama av made sense, but it was a gift & a curse at the same time... The real problem is, they should have extended the B45 or the B65 to Alabama av to help out the B12 b/w Alabama & St. John's, because a significant enough an amount of people are getting off at Rockaway av for the B60, or the projects that the B12 passes by before it ever hits Pitkin.... I'm just going to say that the B12 doesn't need more service, it needs a supplement on the eastern portion of the route which is where I believe the problem starts (because more riders board/disembark at more of the intermediate stops on the eastern portion of the route), whenever they begin to start (not) arriving at the posted interval/headway.... You can clearly hear people sucking their teeth when the buses that have been washed (meaning they're OOS for the rest of the day) are headed back to (one of) the lots (I'll admit there are a lot of buses that pass by), but that's not what bothers me.... What irritates me to no end, is when I see B45's & B65's coming out of the depot to deadhead to St. John's/Ralph - along ENY av, to boot.... Well seems like they should try a few things... Run artics if at all possible AND/OR have a few empty B12's run directly from the depot. The problem is that the is not adding service on some lines when they should be. Buses are crushloaded and they simply refuse to add more service. Seeing this on quite a few lines. Edited October 22, 2014 by Via Garibaldi 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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