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Save your updates until you gather a bunch. Please do not flood the page with posts of one specific updated bus.

Page 32 Update: **As of January 26, 2021**

 

Version 1 (Strategic):

2014-15 New Flyer XD40: 7304-7314, 7316-7351 

Version 2 (Vianova):

2010 NovaBus LFSA: 1234-1279, 1284-1285

2011 NovaBus LFS: 8000-8004, 8009, 8011-8013, 8015-8018, 8020, 8022-8026, 8030-8032, 8036, 8038, 8040, 8045, 8048-8049, 8052

2011-13 NovaBus LFSA: 5264-5266, 5799, 5822-5823, 5896, 5901-5935, 5965-5966

2011-13 New Flyer C40LF: 185-186, 188-189, 193, 196-199, 201, 203, 205-206, 208, 210-213, 215-219, 221-223, 225-226, 229-252, 254-319, 322, 324-325, 328, 333, 335, 338, 340, 342-344, 347-447, 493, 495, 505, 508, 514-515, 521, 524, 526-527, 534, 537-547, 549-553, 555-560, 562-569

2014-15 New Flyer XD40: 7315, 7438-7440, 7443-7447, 7449-7457, 7459, 7461-7463, 7465-7482

2014-16 Prevost X3-45: 2729, 2788

2015-16 NovaBus LFS: 8090-8125, 8127-8503

2017-18 New Flyer XN60: 1000-1109

2018-19 New Flyer XD40: 7484-7850

2018 New Flyer XDE40: 9500-9509

2018-19 NovaBus LFS: 8504-8754

2018-19 NovaBus LFSA: 5531-5602

2020-21 Prevost X3-45: 1300-1629

2020-21 New Flyer XD40: 9510-9619

2020-21 NovaBus LFS: 9620-9910

Version 3 (Clever Devices):

2008 Orion VII NG: 3800-3899, 3901-3910, 3912-3913, 3915-3921, 3940-3948, 3950-3957

2009-10 Orion VII NG: 3967-3975, 3977, 3979-3981, 3983, 3985, 3987-3988, 3990, 4019*, 4020-4039, 4063, 4070-4095*, 4111-4112, 4115-4122, 4127, 4136-4137, 4140-4169, 4245-4278*, 4433, 4442, 4447, 4451-4452, 4483-4512, 4516, 4520, 4529, 4532, 4631-4655

2014-15 New Flyer XD40: 7097, 7099, 7103-7107, 7110-7112, 7114-7115, 7117-7126, 7129-7132, 7140, 7143, 7151-7152, 7154-7155, 7157-7161, 7164, 7167, 7169, 7177, 7180-7181, 7183, 7188-7189, 7195-7196, 7199-7209, 7211, 7214-7219, 7221, 7223-7227, 7229-7231, 7233, 7235-7240, 7242-7252, 7254, 7256-7259, 7261-7263, 7265-7269, 7275-7277, 7279-7280, 7282-7283, 7286, 7289, 7292, 7296-7298, 7367-7368, 7371-7372, 7376, 7388, 7390, 7392-7393, 7396, 7401, 7403-7404, 7406, 7409-7411, 7419, 7423, 7425, 7435-7437

2016-17 New Flyer XN40: 673-810

2018-20 New Flyer XD60: 6126-6286

2019-20 New Flyer XE60: 4950-4964 

Version 4 (Luminator):

2011-13 New Flyer C40LF: 570-658

 

Notes:

Buses with (*) have an older version of the specified model. 

Thank you to everyone that has contributed to the thread. Let me know if I missed anything. 

Please do not flood the page with posts of one specific updated bus. Save your updates until you gather a bunch.

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I think this might fit for a topic on announcements.  On Wednesday, I took an ride on 614 on the Q25. And I noticed an different TTS used on these buses. I looked at the announcement rosters for the bus that is used, and sure enough it was a Luminator. For what I can tell, the Luminator version sounds more natural for Text-To-Speech, than the Clever Device/ViaNova ones. I wonder why the MTA didn't add the Luminator ones on the other C40LFs, or the other buses like the LFS? And also, just last week, I took an ride on Westchester's buses, and their announcements are realistic. So it made sense that the Bee-Line can do announcements right, while the MTA can cut corner when it comes to announcements. If I have to choose which announcement system the MTA should use more often, then the Luminator is the way to go.

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59 minutes ago, RSMG106 said:

I think this might fit for a topic on announcements.  On Wednesday, I took an ride on 614 on the Q25. And I noticed an different TTS used on these buses. I looked at the announcement rosters for the bus that is used, and sure enough it was a Luminator. For what I can tell, the Luminator version sounds more natural for Text-To-Speech, than the Clever Device/ViaNova ones. I wonder why the MTA didn't add the Luminator ones on the other C40LFs, or the other buses like the LFS? And also, just last week, I took an ride on Westchester's buses, and their announcements are realistic. So it made sense that the Bee-Line can do announcements right, while the MTA can cut corner when it comes to announcements. If I have to choose which announcement system the MTA should use more often, then the Luminator is the way to go.

Not all the C40s are outfitted with announcements, 448-490 are still without as well as 659-672 at Gleason. It's a toss-up if they'll even get around to retrofitting those but the Luminator system is pretty nice.

The Vianova units in our buses are a close second when it comes to announcements. Clever Devices I'm not a fan of.

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1 hour ago, SoSpectacular said:

Not all the C40s are outfitted with announcements, 448-490 are still without as well as 659-672 at Gleason. It's a toss-up if they'll even get around to retrofitting those but the Luminator system is pretty nice.

The Vianova units in our buses are a close second when it comes to announcements. Clever Devices I'm not a fan of.

Interesting. For whatever reason, the MTA only installed the Luminators from 570-658, nearly close to 90 buses, yet they didn't have the time to refit them on the rest of the C40s that didn't feature on-board screens. For what I can gather, the MTA is not using the Luminator set-up on the newer buses being delivered, instead using Vianova, and Clever Devices. It's a possibility that they will never put Luminators on the new fleet beyond 2020. I hope the MTA can refit the 2016-17 XD60s with the Luminator system, but it may not happen anytime soon.

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On 3/5/2021 at 12:43 PM, Snorunts said:

There are NO SCREENS on 3914, 3924-3927, 3929, 3931-3933, 3935-3936, 3950! Not sure why anyone would have them listed.

Thanks for the update, on page 4, the original roster poster assumed all NGs in that batch were receiving the version 3 and grouped the entire batch not knowing that we'd be here in 2021 with all buses not having screens. 

Seems like only the NG list from 3800-3959 needs rework, so I'll update it on the next page with only buses that were posted. 

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On 2/5/2021 at 9:00 PM, RSMG106 said:

Interesting. For whatever reason, the MTA only installed the Luminators from 570-658, nearly close to 90 buses, yet they didn't have the time to refit them on the rest of the C40s that didn't feature on-board screens. For what I can gather, the MTA is not using the Luminator set-up on the newer buses being delivered, instead using Vianova, and Clever Devices. It's a possibility that they will never put Luminators on the new fleet beyond 2020. I hope the MTA can refit the 2016-17 XD60s with the Luminator system, but it may not happen anytime soon.

I'm really close to the Q19, 23 and 66, and I noticed some 600s not saying welcome aboard announcements nor vianova, I have a few videos that you can hear one. Are these what you're trying to talk about? 

 

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On 3/5/2021 at 12:43 PM, Snorunts said:

There are NO SCREENS on 3914, 3924-3927, 3929, 3931-3933, 3935-3936, 3950! Not sure why anyone would have them listed.

There are also no screens on 3859, 3911, 3949.

I can confirm that 3801-3802, 3807, 3809-3811, 3816, 3819, 3821, 3823-3824, 3826, 3829, 3842, 3846, 3850, 3852, 3854-3855, 3857-3858, 3860, 3862, 3866-3867, 3871-3875, 3877-3879, 3884, 3894, 3896-3898, 3908, 3916, 3919, 3921, 3923, 3938-3939, 3943, 3945-3946, 3951, 3955-3957, 3959 have screens (Version 3) installed.

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On 3/8/2021 at 3:12 PM, ItsDavid said:

I'm really close to the Q19, 23 and 66, and I noticed some 600s not saying welcome aboard announcements nor vianova, I have a few videos that you can hear one. Are these what you're trying to talk about? 

 

Those are the ones.

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