One of my teachers presented me with this article from Monday’s NY Post:
Hybrid Buses breaking down
By JEREMY OLSHAN
Hybrid buses may be good for the environment, but they’re also good for the mechanics.
NYC Transit’s fleet of more than 600 Orion VII buses have repeatedly suffered power-generator breakdowns.
Manufacturer Orion Bus Industries hasn’t fixed the problem, according to […]
Continuing my series of New York City Transit sounds, you are hereby being presented with my collection of R-142A subway car recordings. These spiffy new trains run exclusively on the 4, 5 and 6 lines in Brooklyn, Manhattan and The Bronx (their cousins, the R-142 run on the 2 line; the R-143 on the L […]
As a native New York City resident, I haven’t had that many opportunities to ride the Long Island Rail Road throughout my life. The last time I took the LIRR, I noticed the difference between the city and the (so-called) Island, but more specifically, the subway and railroad. After riding the train today, I wondered […]
One more day closer to Regents and yet another day of bus riding. My trips today also weren’t so successful, but I did actually go to a few places. Here’s the results.
I headed out quite a bit later than I did yesterday, leaving the house at around 11:15 AM. To get the facts out quickly […]
What an exciting day! Today was my first ever “Bus Day”. It probably differs from other people’s ideas of what a bus day is, since I went out for recordings of buses, not pictures. And unfortunately, I came back slightly disappointed, but I’m happy I came back with at least something.
To begin, I took the […]
Six o’clock today marked the official end of midterms for the first semester. I took three exams within the last week: English, which was pretty easy except for the SAT-level questions on reading comprehension, Global History, which required some brain activity but wasn’t too hard, and Chemisrty, which I wouldn’t be surprised if I failed.
Right […]
I decided to take a trip on the M104 yesterday, with hopes of getting one of the newer ‘05-06 model year Orions VII HEVs (which I did get), which have a slightly updated propulsion system, and hence a slightly different sound (for me to record, obviously). Let me tell you that had I completed the […]
Over the past few months, Orion has been delivering more and more hybrid buses to MTA Bus, the new company formed to manage the taken-over private bus lines of NYC. These new HEVs bring an update to either the engine or hybrid propulsion system (namely BAE Systems’ HybriDrive), are slightly quieter than the older model […]
