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Posted by The Port of Authority on Sat Jan 6 13:30:59 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 12:33:38 2007. It's the QM18! What's wrong with taking the subway? |
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Posted by R4 Bryn Mawr LCL/R5 Paoli EXP on Sat Jan 6 13:39:54 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by The Port of Authority on Sat Jan 6 13:30:59 2007. Exactly. F train to Q10A Limited. |
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Posted by MCI D4000 81994 on Sat Jan 6 14:28:11 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 12:43:02 2007. 35' HEV's would not work on SI on some routes |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 15:06:50 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by MCI D4000 81994 on Sat Jan 6 14:28:11 2007. They would be kept on lighter use routes, and would NOT ever be used on the S62, S78, and S79. |
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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sat Jan 6 15:23:54 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 15:06:50 2007. They would never be used on ALOT of SI routes, these lines are crush-loaded during rush hours out here.However, 35' buses would work on routes like the S59, S54, S42, S60, S55/S56, and S52. |
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Posted by Mysterious Friday 1986 on Sat Jan 6 17:04:12 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by petabread2 on Sat Jan 6 00:39:37 2007. That's so true. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 17:34:48 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Mysterious Friday 1986 on Sat Jan 6 17:04:12 2007. And, it is one of many cases where express buses take up depot space that local routes desperately need (converting 5894-7 to two-door buses, and eliminating cruisers altogether would go a long way to meeting customer demand on the Q10, which is currently NOT met---because it is constantly leaving passengers behind during peak service.) |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Jan 6 18:57:21 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 12:43:02 2007. Oh geez.Will you please be quite? You sound foolish. |
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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sat Jan 6 19:14:50 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Edwards! on Sat Jan 6 18:57:21 2007. It's not impossible, Los Angeles has already done it as other agencies across the world. |
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Posted by Mr. Harlem Line on Sat Jan 6 19:16:14 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 12:43:02 2007. That's borrring... |
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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sat Jan 6 19:25:19 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Mr. Harlem Line on Sat Jan 6 19:16:14 2007. No more boring than it is now! There's nothing spectacular about the fleets we see now, and have seen for the past 5+ years. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Sat Jan 6 19:36:42 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sat Jan 6 19:25:19 2007. I wasn't really involved with BusTalk/BusChat back then, but how did everyone feel when RTSs were taking over NYC? Were we bored then? |
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Posted by q55viamyrtle on Sat Jan 6 19:44:27 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by New Flyer #857 on Sat Jan 6 19:36:42 2007. I think most bus fans liked the RTS.Remember, we also has GMC Fishbowls and FLXIBLES..we also had the new GRUMMAN 870s and we had the colorful PBL Liveries. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:38:26 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Future FLA bus operator on Fri Jan 5 14:09:11 2007. Probably the same amount of people who forked over the $5 to ride the Orion Vs just a few months ago.Personally, it wouldn't be me. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:42:19 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 10:12:33 2007. Well I've seen it happen on the QM17 on numerous occasions. For example, when the TA first took over the route, the 2nd bus (there were only two trips each direction then) was 3156 for over a week. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:45:32 2007, in response to 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by The Port of Authority on Fri Jan 5 13:58:23 2007. Hell, I didn't even know JFK had Orion VIIs. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:48:15 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 01:09:33 2007. I do not agree at all. If the latter was the case, they could just simply "borrow" a bus from another depot-which has been the practice since forever. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:52:38 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Bee Flexible #823 on Sat Jan 6 01:33:24 2007. Even when GBL operated these lines, the QM15/QM18 did receive anything and I do mean anything that was available-from '85/86 RTSs to 1999 Orion Vs. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:30:28 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:48:15 2007. However, at rush hour, good luck getting a spare bus. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:31:16 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 21:48:15 2007. Doesn't matter. If the fleet is all RTS, Orions, and New Flyer (standard transit buses), then ANY bus can run on ANY route. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:48:00 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:30:28 2007. Hey, it's been done before-definately not impossible. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:51:41 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:31:16 2007. Well if that's the case, then ANY and ALL routes, INCLUDING the EXPRESS routes should charge $2 NOT $5.If you are going to charge premium fare for express bus routes, then premium buses should be used. Why in the world would someone want to pay $5 to ride on a bus that you can pay $2 for? |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:54:26 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:51:41 2007. MBTA and WMATA, and many TAs in Canada use transit-style buses on express routes sometimes (MBTA all the time, since they have no express buses per se). Why should the MTA be so special?Remember, if express service is cut, the buses may have to be sold off. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:55:22 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:31:16 2007. I know this is off topic, but do you know the address to any current MTA NYC and Bus websites? I want to know when did JFK start receiving O7s?Thanks. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 23:02:06 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 22:54:26 2007. Because we are not in Boston, Canada or any other transit region that use express style buses.NYC, with the exception of a few NYCDOT companies, always provided premium service for the premium fare-over 30 years. If I am correct, the original purpose of the express bus service was to provide more comfortable service to/from Manhattan than the subway, thus charging a premium fare. Why after 30 years, provide us with regular service, BUT also charges us premium fares? I don't think that would fly at all. In fact I know for yours truly, it wouldn't. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 23:19:33 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:55:22 2007. Look on BusTalk.net in Hot Topics. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 23:19:59 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 23:02:06 2007. It's also sending a message. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 23:20:14 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 23:19:33 2007. Thanks. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 23:49:06 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Jan 6 23:19:59 2007. And what would that message be? |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Jan 7 00:03:09 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 23:49:06 2007. Take the local bus, you are not special, and we need the floor space for local buses more than you need an express bus. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 7 01:01:13 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Sat Jan 6 22:51:41 2007. I suspect that most people pay for the service, not for the physical bus.The service offered by the express bus has an operating cost of $11.98 per passenger trip. The service offered by the local bus has an operating cost of $2.26 per passenger trip. It's bad enough that those of us who don't ride express buses have to fork over $6.98 (actually, closer to $7.81 or more, since very few express bus riders pay in cash) each time somebody boards one of those things. But, hey, if you object to the seats, fine -- take the local bus and subway like the vast majority of your fellow New Yorkers do. |
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Posted by SubBus aka ENY Local on Mon Jan 8 01:23:42 2007, in response to 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by The Port of Authority on Fri Jan 5 13:58:23 2007. That reminds when in October, I took my first ever express bus ride. I took the BM2 into the city. It was a MCI coach. I met my girlfriend and we took the BQM1 back to Bklyn. We just missed a late BQM1 which was another MCI coach. After a whole bunch of MCI flew by on 5Ave, our bus finally showed up. My girlfriend looked at me and said, "Is this the bus?"It was CNG Orion V#7223 |
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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Mon Jan 8 20:30:20 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by q55viamyrtle on Sat Jan 6 19:44:27 2007. Uhhh.....there was no BusTalk back then when the GMC Fishbowls were still around. Windows and Mac were both at a very primitive state, was the internet even around then? |
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Posted by q55viamyrtle on Mon Jan 8 20:46:04 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Mon Jan 8 20:30:20 2007. I wasn't referring to the bustalk site or any site.I was just making a general statement to the original poster that I believe most people (especially from what I've read on sites like this and others) liked the RTS when they were introduced. I went on to further explain that there was also a wider variety of bus models and color schemes (the PBLs) when the RTS was introduced. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Tue Jan 9 07:49:59 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Mon Jan 8 20:30:20 2007. HAHAHAHAHA newbie.Yes, the Internet was around in the mid-90's. As was the World Wide Web (begun in 1991), which is an entirely different thing but which you may be referring to. Did it not occur to you that there might have been other operating systems in use at the time, and that today's perception of "primitive" was not really relevant back then? I spent many a late night in 1992 in the Mac Lab in the basement of Upson working on computer science projects; aside from the frequent crashes, they served the purpose just fine. Then the next year, I obtained an account at the Sun Lab on the third floor. Incidentally, the fishbowls were still in service on New York Bus Service in 2005. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Fri Jan 12 14:49:13 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Jan 7 00:03:09 2007. First of all, that so called message is retarded and ignorant at best. It is not about be being so special. It is about getting what I'm paying for.If you have such a low self esteem about yourself that you would pay for a certain level of service, but get sh*t instead and be happy about it, then by all means enjoy yourself, just leave me out of it. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Fri Jan 12 14:56:17 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 7 01:01:13 2007. You can go into all of that ying-yang about what it cost to operate an express bus if you want to. My point is if the TA and NOT YOU feel that it is too much to operate the service, then don't operate it.But don't operate the service, charge express fare and give local service. Oh and by the way, not only do I take the local buses and subways every day, but I've been taking them long before you were even thought of, so point blank, you aint said nothing. |
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Posted by R4 Bryn Mawr LCL/R5 Paoli EXP on Fri Jan 12 16:05:19 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Fri Jan 12 14:49:13 2007. You're getting double what you're paying for. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 14 11:09:18 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Fri Jan 12 14:56:17 2007. Who's giving local service? The bus ran all the way from Manhattan out to Ozone Park (without picking up any new fares outside Manhattan). It didn't pick up its passengers at the subway station, as a local bus would.Again: People don't pay $5 (actually $4.17 and down) to ride on a bus with soft seats. It's the service they're paying for, not the seats. (It's also the service that drives the operating cost way up.) The QM18 is not a TA route. |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 14 11:11:39 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by R4 Bryn Mawr LCL/R5 Paoli EXP on Fri Jan 12 16:05:19 2007. Closer to triple. Which, in absolute terms, comes out to quite a bit per ride. |
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Posted by B53RICH on Sun Jan 14 12:30:59 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by David of Broadway on Sun Jan 14 11:09:18 2007. How much of the cost would be brought down if those OTR MCI coaches weren't used and instead using regular transit buses, maybe with soft seats as were used on express routes for many years before the MCI's were used? |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Sun Jan 14 16:08:55 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by B53RICH on Sun Jan 14 12:30:59 2007. I thought it would be a lot but I think now it isn't that significant, although I would definitely sacrifice the MCIs for a cheaper fare. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sun Jan 14 21:38:47 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by B53RICH on Sun Jan 14 12:30:59 2007. I like that idea. What I would do is either get rid of all MCI Cruisers, if feasible rebuild and repaint all MCI Classics in service and all Eastchester Storage buses, and put them in express bus service. Or, I would rebuild all RTS Suburban/Orion V Suburban buses in service, and place them in express service along with newly ordered Orion V Suburban buses. Hybrids will replace the lost buses. |
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Posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 20:30:07 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by PATHman on Sat Jan 6 00:40:23 2007. BUT will you pay $5 to ride this?(Please note, my friend was nice enough to set it as the QM18) |
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Posted by The Port of Authority on Mon Jan 15 21:27:29 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 20:30:07 2007. Well, that one has soft seats, so it'd be more attractive to express riders.That's what all express routes should be utilizing rather than the MCI Cruisers. |
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Posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 22:26:09 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by The Port of Authority on Mon Jan 15 21:27:29 2007. I agree. I don't mind the MCI Cruisers anyway.On a side note, 9860 was on the QM1 today! |
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Posted by mr_brian on Mon Jan 15 22:26:45 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 22:26:09 2007. wowzers! |
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Posted by PATHman on Mon Jan 15 23:13:59 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 20:30:07 2007. It's not a MCI but at least it's not a Orion VII. The Orion V's on the former private routes are surprisingly comfortable. |
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Posted by QM18Express on Mon Jan 15 23:27:35 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by mr_brian on Mon Jan 15 22:26:45 2007. And to think that I ALMOST rode on it? If I had been a little bit faster at walking, I could |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Jan 16 00:52:15 2007, in response to Re: 3557 on the QM18 (!), posted by The Port of Authority on Mon Jan 15 21:27:29 2007. Some RTS still have suburban seats similar to the Crusiers. 9336 I think was on the B3 a few weeks ago. I wouldn't mind sitting in that bus. |
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