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Posted by JAzumah on Wed May 7 19:03:18 2008, in response to Re: It's Official Re: MTA BUS Takeover (Merger)), posted by Terrapin Station on Wed May 7 18:35:12 2008. Yes, it is. All three are now headed by one guy. So, you may as well start calling everything MTA Bus. Paint is paint and paychecks are paychecks, but his duties begin immediately.The next step will be to interchange equipment on a regular basis. If necessary, equipment will be brought to MTA bus to fix as the city must pay for that. Then, the equipment can be sent back to LI Bus (read: transferring costs from Nassau County to NYC as NYC just paid to fix it). Expect all buses to lose the orange stripe in LI. Routes will continue to be separate, but NYC Transit will now plan for everyone and run things like scheduling and bus rotations. This explains why the 8XXXs are being run until they are close to breaking in half. There isn't enough money for normal replacement now and there isn't enough money to even pull down federal funds for the match. Isn't NJT having the same problem? I would expect all LIB units to be renumbered and some of CP's Orion Vs to migrate east along with JG's Orion Vs. The new buses will be debugged in NYC before anything heads east. Eventually, Nassau will cut all subsidy for LIB. If Suffolk puts more in to their budget at $16 million than Nassau does and Nassau has twice as many buses, what makes anyone think that Nassau can't just walk away? They will. |
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