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Correct. You cannot drive a route that is supposed to have standards on your first half and then drive a route that is supposed to have artics on your second half or vice versa.

 

Note how I said "supposed to" as this is important: For example the Bx7, Bx20, and M100 are interlined. They are supposed to be standard routes. However, artics show up on the M100 quite often.

 

So you can drive an artic on the M100 your first half and then drive a standard on the Bx7 and/or Bx20 on your second half or second shift or third shift (I call them shifts in the case of the belly runs, which are runs that have at least two swings), or vice versa.

 

But they cannot combine the Bx9 with anything, even though its relief point is at 225 Street-Broadway while the Bx7/Bx20/M100 have the relief point just over the bridge and next to Kingsbridge depot at Broadway-218 Street, since the Bx9 is supposed to have artics only and the Bx7/Bx20/M100 are supposed to have artics only. Even though the M100 does use artics quite a bit. On paper it is not an artic route while the Bx9 is, so no interlining can occur here.

 

Real easy for them to interline in Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island since there are no SBS routes or artics in these boroughs.

 

Also you cannot interline local/limited with express or SBS. You cannot interline express with local/limited or SBS. And you cannot interline SBS with express or local/limited.

 

You can drive a LFS Artic on the M15 local on your first half and then drive a D60HF on the M15 local on your second half and vice versa, but not a LFS Artic on the M15 SBS on your first half and then an LFS Artic on the M15 local on your second half, even though it is the same exact bus sans the fact that fare collection is 'your responsibility' on one and not the other.

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I sense the sarcasm. :(

 

Different bus types do not get different unions. You get paid more to drive an artic than to drive a standard.

 

If you are on a standard route but you drive an artic, you tell the crew when you go in at the end of the day so that they give you the artic differential.

 

If you are on an artic route but they give you a standard, they do not give you the artic differential.

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