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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 05:52:55 2019, in response to W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by W.B. on Mon Apr 15 03:29:41 2019. Effective as of this date, service on the M-105 - Tenth Avenue line is reduced to one franchise trip a day. I feel sorry for the poor guy who missed the bus. It was a helluva long wait for the next one. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 05:53:26 2019, in response to W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by W.B. on Mon Apr 15 03:29:41 2019. Effective as of this date, service on the M-105 - Tenth Avenue line is reduced to one franchise trip a day. I feel sorry for the poor guy who missed the bus. It was a helluva long wait for the next one. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by W.B. on Mon Apr 15 06:29:46 2019, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 05:52:55 2019. I'd like to know the exact dates of the reduction of FACO #1 and NYCO #22 to one-trip-a-day status myself. All I could do is say "it was within the time period" given that both routes had broken-up lines signifying once-a-day status in the 1958 Fifth Avenue Coach Lines bus map.But obviously M-105 had that low a ridership to have been so curtailed at this stage. |
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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by Snilcher on Mon Apr 15 12:46:08 2019, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 05:53:26 2019. I think it was a guy named Bruce. He went on to write about the experience in "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out."(I sympathize, having in my youth waited all day for the original Q-100 on Northern Blvd. only to see it arrive and drive away without picking anyone up.) |
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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 14:20:50 2019, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by Snilcher on Mon Apr 15 12:46:08 2019. (I sympathize, having in my youth waited all day for the original Q-100 on Northern Blvd. only to see it arrive and drive away without picking anyone up.) Surface Transit had a few routes like that in the Bronx. The bus showed up when it wanted to. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Apr 15 15:41:57 2019, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 15th, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Apr 15 14:20:50 2019. There was a story, probably urban legend, of a bus operator who had a run that allowed a “swing with vehicle” meaning that he did not have to either wait for a lunch relief or pull into the depot for lunch. In surface speak any large off vehicle time is called “swing” which of course includes split runs with often as much as 4 hours between trips. In any case, the operator would pull out of the depot in the morning and somewhere on the way to the route, would park his bus in a secluded spot, and go to work at a second job. He would return in the evening just in time to pull in (or maybe make a partial trip just to show a few fares) and for some reason nobody ever questioned why he booked such a low number of fares. |
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