trainfan22 Posted August 22, 2018 Share #24251 Posted August 22, 2018 2 hours ago, TheTransitKing said: I was hearing that 23 broke down last night. Someone got a pic of it sitting in Midtown between 2-8am with 4 ways on. Damn that Bus was sitting out there all night... driver to be pissed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted August 22, 2018 Share #24252 Posted August 22, 2018 7 minutes ago, Lil 57 said: The moved the SIM6, 10 and 31 stop to 41st from 43rd. (Old X1, 7, 9 stop) Lets see if that helps... This is from social media, per Oddo's office: Quote We are troubled by the accounts of underutilization at the Park & Ride at Capodanno. I know this related to route changes. We are discussing -James Oddo As someone who's been actively speaking to my fellow x2(Madison) riders I've heard all sorts of various reasons for not utilizing the P&R at Capodanno. They ranged from; I only have one car and my husband leaves before I do, I medically can not drive, I don't have a car, I can't afford extra gas money. From what I've heard people are using First Ave as a Transfer Point for the correct ave they need. People on hylan who need Madison takes the SIM10 to 1st ave and transfers to SIM6/SIM6x/SIM31 People on Capodanno who need a 6th ave bus will get off at 1st ave and transfer to SIM3/SIM10 There was a collective voice of not wanting to rely solely on local Manhattan transportation for fear of train delays and local bus service that has stops on every block. This is something I've been trying in vain to stress to with the MTA for months now. The fact of the matter is express bus riders pay for EXPRESS BUS service and the is trying to FORCE the subway and local buses down their throats. I was an express bus rider on Staten Island for over 6 years, and I had no interest in using the subway regularly to reach the express bus. In fact I had a job that required the subway from the express bus and I quit less than a month in because I hated the commute. If the subways were reliable it would be one thing, but they are plagued with the delays and overcrowded. It makes no sense to push more people to use a system that is broken. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Train92 Posted August 22, 2018 Share #24253 Posted August 22, 2018 1085 is on the B35 now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life Posted August 22, 2018 Share #24254 Posted August 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Train92 said: 1085 is on the B35 now. Hopefully, somebody films that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestFarms36 Posted August 23, 2018 Share #24255 Posted August 23, 2018 Who in the hell programs the Destination signs for 's Buses? Do those people even live in NYC? There are several mistakes with a few routes like for example Instead of Bx40 VIA TREMONT AV It currently is Bx40 VIA TREMOUNT AV another example is Instead of Bx35 WEST FARMS ROAD It currently is Bx35 W EST FARMS ROAD Its not like their computers have auto correct or something right? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestFarms36 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24256 Posted August 24, 2018 On 8/22/2018 at 10:22 PM, WestFarms36 said: Who in the hell programs the Destination signs for 's Buses? Do those people even live in NYC? There are several mistakes with a few routes like for example Instead of Bx40 VIA TREMONT AV It currently is Bx40 VIA TREMOUNT AV another example is Instead of Bx35 WEST FARMS ROAD It currently is Bx35 W EST FARMS ROAD Its not like their computers have auto correct or something right? I am serious. They literally talk about Improving and simplifying communication, but if they can't even get the basics right (Programming a sign) let alone actual communication with us the customers. Not only customers go through hell of miscommunication, but its employees as well. I have even heard T/O's and C/R's fighting around which line up they are supposed to get, while Dispatch makes a Jiu Jitsu over giving a line up first, then something else later. Things have been improving in the past months, but those practices have to extend even further to the point where people can put 2 and 2 together and figure it out. There's one operator that I didn't report because I felt bad for him getting in trouble but, tell me how he pulled in his bus as a Bx27 To Clason Point at W Farms, and after making a left at E 167 St he changed it to a Bx35 To Washington Heights WITHOUT NOTICE. Everyone in the bus got off and walked back to W Farms Road, MISSING A Bx27, just departing. Luckily we all got transfers. He realized that he just f*cked up and should had changed his sign before letting passengers on.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24257 Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, WestFarms36 said: I am serious. They literally talk about Improving and simplifying communication, but if they can't even get the basics right (Programming a sign) let alone actual communication with us the customers. Not only customers go through hell of miscommunication, but its employees as well. I have even heard T/O's and C/R's fighting around which line up they are supposed to get, while Dispatch makes a Jiu Jitsu over giving a line up first, then something else later. Things have been improving in the past months, but those practices have to extend even further to the point where people can put 2 and 2 together and figure it out. There's one operator that I didn't report because I felt bad for him getting in trouble but, tell me how he pulled in his bus as a Bx27 To Clason Point at W Farms, and after making a left at E 167 St he changed it to a Bx35 To Washington Heights WITHOUT NOTICE. Everyone in the bus got off and walked back to W Farms Road, MISSING A Bx27, just departing. Luckily we all got transfers. He realized that he just f*cked up and should had changed his sign before letting passengers on.. Another problem that erks me is when I'm taking the M60 towards 106th St and the drivers are still signed up going towards LGA and that puts me in a state of panic because i think im at the wrong stop direction. Also, whats up with some of thess LFSA's signs? They have small route numbers and dest reading on the front sign... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestFarms36 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24258 Posted August 24, 2018 1 minute ago, Lawrence St said: Another problem that erks me is when I'm taking the M60 towards 106th St and the drivers are still signed up going towards LGA and that puts me in a state of panic because i think im at the wrong stop direction. Also, whats up with some of thess LFSA's signs? They have small route numbers and dest reading on the front sign... Oh the small signs on the LFSA's is just a glitch on Luminator's part. They have been resolving it though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil 57 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24259 Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) So I got on bus #4125 on the S79 and that thing was smoking. Big clouds of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. At the ETC and the bus is OOS and the FDNY is here. Edited August 24, 2018 by Lil 57 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24260 Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Lil 57 said: So I got on bus #4125 on the S79 and that thing was smoking. Big clouds of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. At the ETC and the bus is OOS and the FDNY is here. Yukon's maintenance... Always on the up and up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24261 Posted August 24, 2018 So thats why there was an LFS on the s79... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil 57 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24262 Posted August 24, 2018 11 minutes ago, Lawrence St said: So thats why there was an LFS on the s79... They finally got the blue signs on the LFS's for the S79. The Bay Ridge destination sign is shown in reverse so instead of, "BAY RIDGE, 86 ST STATION" it says, "86 ST STATION, BAY RIDGE" causing some of the buses to not show up on BusTime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil 57 Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24263 Posted August 24, 2018 21 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: Yukon's maintenance... Always on the up and up. Yep😂 The smoke coming out the exhaust pipe was so much that when the bus was idling, you could barely see anything outside the window. When we all got off at the ETC, we have to cover our face so we wouldn't inhale all the smoke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24264 Posted August 24, 2018 4 minutes ago, Lil 57 said: Yep😂 The smoke coming out the exhaust pipe was so much that when the bus was idling, you could barely see anything outside the window. When we all got off at the ETC, we have to cover our face so we wouldn't inhale all the smoke. Should have went to the hospital and sued lmao 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Future ENY OP Posted August 24, 2018 Share #24265 Posted August 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Lil 57 said: So I got on bus #4125 on the S79 and that thing was smoking. Big clouds of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. At the ETC and the bus is OOS and the FDNY is here. Just make sure they don't send those buses back up to the mainland of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Quill has some of those old 41xx buses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24266 Posted August 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Future ENY OP said: Just make sure they don't send those buses back up to the mainland of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Quill has some of those old 41xx buses. Some of those Quill 4100s you hear the bus rattling loudly from the outside, they took quite a beating out in SI. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24267 Posted August 25, 2018 4 hours ago, Lawrence St said: So thats why there was an LFS on the s79... Not really, Yukon tends to put LFSs on the S79 every now and then. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24268 Posted August 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Cait Sith said: Not really, Yukon tends to put LFSs on the S79 every now and then. Yea but there are more then usual. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24269 Posted August 25, 2018 34 minutes ago, Lawrence St said: Yea but there are more then usual. There's been no such thing as usual this pick... They've been making service with whatever they can get their hands on. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteriousBtrain Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24270 Posted August 25, 2018 Another thing to consider is milage and not just maintenance issues 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24271 Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Around the Horn said: There's been no such thing as usual this pick... They've been making service with whatever they can get their hands on. You can say that again. Whatever bus they can get to make service they’ll use them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestFarms36 Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24272 Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: Yukon's maintenance... Always on the up and up. As a song in "The Lorax" says, "Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and die!" Edited August 25, 2018 by WestFarms36 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenEleven Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24273 Posted August 25, 2018 10 hours ago, Lawrence St said: Yea but there are more then usual. A lot of the SBS hybrids are away from the depot at the vendors or being rehabbed. Also, they park Novas on the side of the building overnight, which is what's used for SBS service in the mornings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 25, 2018 Share #24274 Posted August 25, 2018 For some reason whenever I load up transit and set a route to South Ferry and my pick up location at Astoria Blvd, when the bus passes through Terminal A it disseapears from the map and automatically sets it to the next bus which is 20 minutes away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q44 SBS Posted August 26, 2018 Share #24275 Posted August 26, 2018 Will the MTA someday order this cng bus from Novabus? We already have Orion VII CNG(being retired), C40LF, XN40 & XN60. I want to get some thoughts on this. We have the diesel and cng variations of the Xcelsior XD40/60 and XN40/60. The MTA has the Novabus LFS and Novabus LFSA. So since they have those two, why not order the cng model? Picture below is the Novabus LFS CNG and the picture does not belong to be. All rights goes to Peter McLaughlin from busdrawing.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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