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Posted by North Brooklyn on Wed Feb 10 20:16:58 2016 Should NICE get XN60s as well? Some of the routes like the N4, N4X, N6, N6X, and N22A could use them. |
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Posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 08:06:01 2016, in response to XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by North Brooklyn on Wed Feb 10 20:16:58 2016. I would think RVC depot should be assigned these buses. |
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Posted by Joe on Fri Feb 12 11:39:32 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 08:06:01 2016. Once in a while this board receives highly speculative topics, a bit like fantasy sports. The odds are pretty strong against Mangano and TransDev agreeing on the purchase of non-standardized equipment. About twenty years ago, MSBA or LI Bus purchased large vans for lightly-served routes. These were kept only a few years. As traction companies learned with open-bench summer cars, it is better to have a single type of vehicle, so that it can cover all types of runs.--- I must also recall two unfortunate side effects of purchasing artics, even though I like them. On Manhattan crosstown routes, I think their introduction has been used to reduce staffing by increasing the headway. Maybe four years ago, I attended a NYCTRC meeting where an outspoken committee member from the Upper East Side objected to those lengthened headways. Also, ten years ago I chose to ride an artic on the Grand Concourse limited north about 4 p.m., when schools let out. It was a unpleasant, slow crawl, with single-front-door loading and single rear-door unloading. I have since traveled on a three-door artic on the Bx9, somewhat faster, but we did not have school kids boarding. Joe |
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline on Fri Feb 12 12:54:03 2016, in response to XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by North Brooklyn on Wed Feb 10 20:16:58 2016. Driving them into 165th and HTC would be a issue.The N4 is the only route that doesn't go to either terminal... I don't think NICE would want to have a oddball fleet just for one route. |
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Posted by OCTD 2039 on Sat Feb 13 02:13:43 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by Joe on Fri Feb 12 11:39:32 2016. Orange County Transportation Authority had New Flyer D60LF (Units 7201-7210, 7301-7320, 7401-7420) and XN60 buses (Units 7601-7620) that have 2 doors, one on the front and in the rear. Long Beach Transit's New Flyer XN60 (Units 1501-1513) and D60LF buses (Units 2301-2313) have 3 doors, one in the front, rear, and in between the second and third windows as well. |
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Posted by Gotham Bus Co. on Sat Feb 13 13:10:16 2016, in response to XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by North Brooklyn on Wed Feb 10 20:16:58 2016. NICE will get whatever buses the County feels like paying for. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 13 16:10:40 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by Joe on Fri Feb 12 11:39:32 2016. They had a very strange sort of bus that ran on a short-lived route from Freeport or RVC to JFK airport, called N91 or something.What were they ? |
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Posted by Joe on Sat Feb 13 16:23:02 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 13 16:10:40 2016. They were Thomas, a version of a school bus. The route from Rockville Centre was via Merrick Road and Hook Creek Blvd., and I rode it maybe twice. Bounced much on Hook Creek Blvd. I'm not a frequent flyer, but one memorable time about 1997, I returned from a two-day visit to Los Angeles with minimal baggage. Got off American Airlines red-eye at dawn, boarded the bus to Rockville Centre (senior fare), then LIRR single-zone senior fare and home! Better than $80 or $100 cab fare. Even less expensive than Air Train, which put the LI Bus route out of service. Yes, it was N91. |
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Posted by OCTD 2039 on Sun Feb 14 01:09:37 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by Joe on Sat Feb 13 16:23:02 2016. NICE had Thomas school buses according to this link: http://www.cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority_retired_bus_fleet#Retired_Roster_-_MSBAUnits 707 and 708 were made in 1995, 709, 710, and 713 made in 1996. They also had 1995 Orion II CNG buses composed of units 701, 711, 704-706, and did they use them on route N91? |
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Posted by North Brooklyn on Sun Feb 14 11:07:45 2016, in response to Re: XN60 artics for NICE?, posted by OCTD 2039 on Sun Feb 14 01:09:37 2016. MTA Long Island bus had these, not NICE. Also, yeah, those CNG Orion 2s were on the N91 too. |
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