Novabus LFS hits New York City

MTA New York has new Novabus Low Floor Series buses, serving the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

Here's some in Brooklyn. Here are some interior shots.

Some exterior shots.

Last Year, the articulated versions were delivered for buses used in Manhattan and the Bronx. Here are some images of those buses as well. The Majority of these buses are used for the Select Bus Service, which is a proof-of-payment service. Riders must get a receipt as proof that they paid their fare to ride these buses. Here are the machines used to get the receipts.

The first one is the coin collector machine seen above. The second one seen below is the FareCard machine. Both dispense receipts.
The interior of the bus.
Here's a LFS Articulated bus wrapped with a Select Bus Service logo.

The M train

The M train in the NYC Subway runs 24 hours a day and 7 days a week between Metropolitan Avenue in Queens and Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. Weekdays, it is extended via 6 Avenue and 53rd Street to Forest Hills 71-Continental Avenues. It was the result of the the M/V combination in which the V designation was eliminated and replaced by the M. Basically the M train was rerouted from the Nassau Street line and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn to 6 Avenue and Queens Boulevard to replace the V.


Here is the current M logo in orange (takes the color of the trunk line in Manhattan in this case 6 Av)
Former M logo is brown for Nassau Street.
The designation which was discontinued. The V did run to 2nd Avenue, no longer served after the M/V combo.
The M train using R-160 cars at Broadway Lafayette Street via 6 Avenue.



This service pattern while a cut, has a benefit too. Residents now have a direct ride from the BMT Myrtle Line to Midtown Manhattan.

My excursion on August 1, 2010

I have been taking a whole bunch of photos, with a better camera last year. I will show you some photos I have photographed.

I will recap my August 1st Excursion around the City.

First I take a (Q) train from my home station at Brighton Beach. The (Q) line is using nothing but R-160 subway cars.




Then I looked around Coney Island Stillwell Avenue before riding the G via the F line. The G was extended to Coney Island because the F went down the C IND Fulton Line, due to switch work.

A R-68 on the (D) line via West End.

A G train coming into Stillwell Avenue.



Then I ride the G to Queens. I got off at Kings Highway



Then I continued to Court Square for the (E) train. I take it to connect the (F) train at Roosevelt Avenue.


A R46 train on the (R)
The (F) train at Rockefeller Center

Then the (C) train had to terminate at 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. A R-44 is on the (C).

A R-32 ribbed car on the C.




After that I returned to Brooklyn, to focus on the D and N lines.

The Arnines of 2010

The Arnines are the nostalgia train sets running on the M line every Sunday in December. Here's last year's photos.




And the current trains that replaced them, the R-160s

Thank you transit workers.

I would like to send my best wishes and a big thank you to the bus operators, subway train operators/conductors, and railroad engineers/conductors and other transit personnel for keeping New Yorkers moving. I have to say that you are amongst the strongest, most dependable, and amongst the most patient human beings in the City. Day in and day out, you continue to move New Yorkers from Point A to Point B with courtesy and professionalism. Thanks for being patient during the toughest of times and helping us with fares, services etc.

In my honest opinion, you transit personnel, do not receive enough credit or paid enough to do your jobs that you do. I do hope that you'll get the respect that you deserve someday. I find it unfair that passengers would take their frustrations at you when you are clearly not at fault. I hope that it doesn't bother you too much.

Keep up the excellent work in the transit system. I am glad to call MTA New York the best Transportation agency in the World.

The 2nd Avenue Subway map

This is the 2nd Avenue Subway map, the (Q) and (T) lines are projected to begin service around 2020. For now please go here for more information.