NYSubwayBuff Posted June 25, 2014 Share #12426 Posted June 25, 2014 Imo the mta express bus seats are the most comfortable seats in the coach bus industry Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted June 25, 2014 Share #12427 Posted June 25, 2014 Man, I would be screwed without BusTime, greatest MTA related thing in the world.I agree, no longer have to waste time looking for rare buses like 2490 or 9114 on a SC route. Would have been GOAT if this was around when the Design line buses was running, as it was very hard to find them on Mantthanvile routes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 25, 2014 Share #12428 Posted June 25, 2014 Imo the mta express bus seats are the most comfortable seats in the coach bus industry Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk Oh please... The express bus seats on the MCI buses are more than comfortable. I get my naps in just fine as I did this morning on the BxM1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted June 25, 2014 Share #12429 Posted June 25, 2014 I agree, no longer have to waste time looking for rare buses like 2490 or 9114 on a SC route. Would have been GOAT if this was around when the Design line buses was running, as it was very hard to find them on Mantthanvile routes. Good times huh lol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E For Erica Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12430 Posted June 26, 2014 9451 is the only 97 I like.. That thing can roar! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYSubwayBuff Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12431 Posted June 26, 2014 I just got off ex Atlantic Express bus #6666 on an Academy charter man that thing can run 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12432 Posted June 26, 2014 I was on the express bus last night and something that looked odd on top of Bus #6402? I believe that was the bus number. Anywho, I believe it was the battery, but it didn't look like the standard ones that I normally see on those types of buses. Was the battery changed on that bus? It looks a lot more cluttered and obvious. At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the tracking device, but the battery or whatever that was took up much more space than usual. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatbush Depot Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12433 Posted June 26, 2014 It is an RTS. And damm not one of the good ones RIP to another 5000. It was removed from the depot yesterday it will most likely be scrapped 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12434 Posted June 26, 2014 I was on the express bus last night and something that looked odd on top of Bus #6402? I believe that was the bus number. Anywho, I believe it was the battery, but it didn't look like the standard ones that I normally see on those types of buses. Was the battery changed on that bus? It looks a lot more cluttered and obvious. At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the tracking device, but the battery or whatever that was took up much more space than usual. I remember seeing an Orion VII that had an unusual tank thing on the top, it wasn't like the usual two packs that an ordinary Orion hybrid has, more like the CNG tank. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12435 Posted June 26, 2014 I was on the express bus last night and something that looked odd on top of Bus #6402? I believe that was the bus number. Anywho, I believe it was the battery, but it didn't look like the standard ones that I normally see on those types of buses. Was the battery changed on that bus? It looks a lot more cluttered and obvious. At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the tracking device, but the battery or whatever that was took up much more space than usual. That's the Lithium-Ion battery on that bus. 4 of those units have those. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12436 Posted June 26, 2014 That's the Lithium-Ion battery on that bus. 4 of those units have those. That thing is enormous... Takes up almost the entire roof... What's the difference between those and the other batteries that those buses usually have? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12437 Posted June 26, 2014 That thing is enormous... Takes up almost the entire roof... What's the difference between those and the other batteries that those buses usually have? Better for longer runs and has more power in em. It's why the NGs after 3959 have them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culver Posted June 26, 2014 Share #12438 Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) How do I report this a**hole? Again 7:15 guy does this. This is the umpteenth time this has happened with B4 drivers having plenty of layover time between runs (this guy was at last stop with like ten+minutes to spare) and still pulling this stunt stranding people waiting up to 40 minutes for the next bus. And aren't the MTA dispatchers supposed to catch this sort of shit now with the tracking system? EDIT: f**king app has my location wrong there, so the MTA probably won't even take this shit as proof. EDIT2: 7:35 bus was on time...but isn't on BusTime. JG drivers give zero f**ks. This is the 7:15 guy being a dick: Edited June 26, 2014 by Culver 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12439 Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) Deleted Edited June 27, 2014 by Blitz 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XcelsiorBoii4888 Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12440 Posted June 27, 2014 Smh...it never fails. I was waiting for a B36 at Stillwell one day, and I just missed one that came at 11:34am, next TWO didn't come until 12:26pm. The driver in front moving all slow down the street, with the kneel down, and this bus was jammed pack and the front door was packed so the bus was like leaning forward rolling on the front wheels, probably cracking the axles when it hits bumps. Anyways, we leave stillwell, both buses have about 10-15 standees each, and the guy in front is just taking his precious time down the streets. The guy behind him doesn't even choose to pass him, and when we were at ocean parkway, I checked BusTime and the previous B36, was already on Nostrand and Ave Y going towards Coney Island. Then when I got off, I got on the B44 and those two mofos were on layover, like Wtf. The previous bus before their trip was at like Coney Island hospital and they relaxing. I thought MTA was watching this? I thought some of you said they can tell B/Os if their running too hot or too early? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B36 Via Ave U Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12441 Posted June 27, 2014 Yeah drivers on the B4 absolutely suck, happened to me too bout a month ago I missed a bus at 11:09 AM in Bay ridge, bus 7591, bus 485 heads up to the last stop (I am at 4th and 77th by the way) the scheduled time comes and he is nowhere to be found, check bustime, nowhere, then I see him fly down bay ridge parkway and probably pick up at 4th and bay ridge parkway. I wound up waiting an hour for the next bus # 254. You are right JG drivers on the B4 don't give a damn that and the constant laying over in 6 million different damn places, bunching on 20 minute headways on the weekends idk how that is possible. Can this B4 situation be rectified? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culver Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12442 Posted June 27, 2014 Yeah drivers on the B4 absolutely suck, happened to me too bout a month ago I missed a bus at 11:09 AM in Bay ridge, bus 7591, bus 485 heads up to the last stop (I am at 4th and 77th by the way) the scheduled time comes and he is nowhere to be found, check bustime, nowhere, then I see him fly down bay ridge parkway and probably pick up at 4th and bay ridge parkway. I wound up waiting an hour for the next bus # 254. You are right JG drivers on the B4 don't give a damn that and the constant laying over in 6 million different damn places, bunching on 20 minute headways on the weekends idk how that is possible. Can this B4 situation be rectified? I see they do that shit on the weekends, too. How does this keep happening and nobody at the MTA notices? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XcelsiorBoii4888 Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12443 Posted June 27, 2014 I see they do that shit on the weekends, too. How does this keep happening and nobody at the MTA notices? Lots of people don't give a f**k, and we riders in South Brooklyn don't complain about shyt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B36 Via Ave U Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12444 Posted June 27, 2014 I see they do that shit on the weekends, too. How does this keep happening and nobody at the MTA notices? That was on a midday weekday but they do pull that shit on weekends too I have had my experiences too many times on that damn line since JG aquirred it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 27, 2014 Share #12445 Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) That was on a midday weekday but they do pull that shit on weekends too I have had my experiences too many times on that damn line since JG aquirred it. Lots of people don't give a f**k, and we riders in South Brooklyn don't complain about shyt. I see they do that shit on the weekends, too. How does this keep happening and nobody at the MTA notices? You guys all need to write in every time that it happens because if they get enough people complaining, then they have to do something about it. It's easier for them to ignore it if one person does it but you get 10 or 15 people do it and then they can't ignore it. That happened one Friday night. The last BxM2 of the night was a no show and people were furious. Everyone was calling the depot wanting to know where that bus was and the guy was going crazy because he was receiving so many phone calls. Then a ton of people wrote it into the and that following Sunday they had dispatch lurking checking on that last bus. It wasn't the same driver either but he noticed it and asked me what was going on and I told that the Friday 00:30 was a no-show, hence why there was not one but TWO dispatchers watching the line for that last bus. One was parked over near Central Park West near 81st and then there was another one by Madison and 99th street. lol I see this all the time when I'm in Bay Ridge and Sheepshead Bay and the first stop Narrows & 77th is a big problem. What a lot of them do is deadhead over to Shore Rd, take that so far up and then go over to Jackie Gleason. Same thing in Sheepshead Bay. I see TONS of B4 buses laid up all over the place. Voorhies and Ocean or along Shore Parkway, etc. Why do they have so many lay up spots? Edited June 27, 2014 by Via Garibaldi 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culver Posted June 28, 2014 Share #12446 Posted June 28, 2014 4862 sounds like a dump truck, btw; like some of those old messed up O5s in Staten Island. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM5 via Woodhaven Posted June 28, 2014 Share #12447 Posted June 28, 2014 Already? BM4 by BM5 via Woodhaven, on Flickr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvega961 Posted June 28, 2014 Share #12448 Posted June 28, 2014 Already? BM4 by BM5 via Woodhaven, on Flickr He probably has the bus on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XcelsiorBoii4888 Posted June 28, 2014 Share #12449 Posted June 28, 2014 4862 sounds like a dump truck, btw; like some of those old messed up O5s in Staten Island.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk They say it's the HVAC, idk how an HVAC causes it to sound like that. 4862 sounds like a dump truck, btw; like some of those old messed up O5s in Staten Island.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk They say it's the HVAC, idk how an HVAC causes it to sound like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted June 28, 2014 Share #12450 Posted June 28, 2014 About the B4 comments upthread,most of the time the B4 is on BRP is because of garbage trucks on 77 St,not the BO's fault. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.