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Re: MTA Bus Roadeo Cancelled |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed May 6 13:53:43 2009, in response to Re: MTA Bus Rodeo Cancelled, posted by BMTLines on Wed May 6 08:31:51 2009. AFAIAC those buses belong in a museum that is open to the public. Bringing them out once or twice a year just doesn't cut it. The MTA should sell or donate them to transportation museums around the country that actually open their collections to the public. No way. I disagree one million percent. The buses do belong to a museum - the New York Transit Museum, which is wholly a part of the MTA, which controls NYCT. These buses served in NYC and there's no better museum for them. 1. The NYTM, being part of MTA and NYCT, can have its equipment maintained by the same pros who keep the active duty fleet it tip top shape day in and day out. There's no better maintenance to be had than that. 2. The buses are brought out for static display for the public at BusFest. They are also displayed at the Roadeo, but I don't think that was technically open to the public, and it's gone this year and who knows about the future. And some of the buses were displayed staticly daily throughout the month of December. So yes, I agree that there should maybe be a few more static display oppurtunities. But I feel that the excellent maintenance resources and the "in-service" operating opportunities (see below) make up for the lack of static display. Furthering supporting that idea, my first reaction is that more people see/tour the buses per year during the above mentioned static displays than there are visitors to any single east coast bus museum. But I could certainly be wrong on that. 3. IN SERVICE OPERATION: OMFG, running these buses in service is so unbelievably cool, and it directly benefits the people who deserve it the most - NY'ers. At a museum, these buses will not run in revenue service for NYCT. And there is no better way to honor these buses than to maintain them well enough to be run in revenue service, and then actually RUNNING THEM IN REVENUE SERVICE!!! 4. You're not claiming the Arnines should be sent to some other museum. Many of them are not on display - only some are and the rest are in some yard like 207 St. Those arnines are only visible to the public at events like how the vintage buses are displayed. So why say the buses should be given away but not the arnines, and all the rest of the TM subway/rail fleet that won't fit in the museum in Court St? Take Pride,
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