Transit
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
at 4:10am
I got a new iriver u10 MP3 (and a whole lot of other formats, including video and pictures) player recently. The first time I tried recording a bus with it, it came out horrible, which I blame on the ultra-sensitive mic that picked every bump. After a few tries, I got it right, and came out with a few decent trips worh of recordings.
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
at 12:11am
One of my buddies asked me to share my not-so-new NYC RTS bus sounds, so here are the links to them. I’ll add more in time.
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
at 2:26am
Imagine a transit system that’s so broke they can’t buy toilet paper for their employees to use at work, can’t buy enough fuel, can’t replace tires on buses until they blow out, can’t fix fareboxes so people often ride free, can’t buy parts that are needed, can’t give rasies to underpaid maintenance employees who haven’t had a raise in over 10 years, and the list goes on. But imagine a place that provides courteous service, the most awsome employees, special needs services, easy to use systems, and a low fare.Well guess what its the same place! METS Transit in Evansville, IN and thats who I work for and I love it!-Kyle
Monday, October 10th, 2005
at 9:12pm
If you might have noticed, only certain routes (Brooklyn, Bronx and MTA Bus routes) use… CNG buses. This is weird. I thought that The MTA was so into clean-air programs. Maybe one of these days they will make up their minds and get their act together.
Monday, October 10th, 2005
at 8:58pm
As you may have read on the MTA’s Web site, the private bus lines were supposed to have been taken over and put into the MTA Bus Company by the end of the summer. You also may have noticed that nothing has really happened with regard to the Cooper lines recently. This topic has been raging for months on bus forums. Does anybody on earth know when there will be an end and a new beginning?
Edit: It still hasn’t completely happened.
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
at 9:13pm
Just in case you didn’t see one going down Union Turnpike or Broadway (but not Queens Boulevard or Lefferts Boulevard yet), The MTA now has a highly populated fleet of Orion VII HEVs. These forty-footers save gas and keep the air clean (on the side of the bus it says “Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus,” marketing it more a smog reducer) by storing the energy normally lost as friction while the bus is braking. They are powered by BAE Systems’ HybriDrive technology. Here’s how it works: 1)The bus starts moving of energy from the electric motor 2)When the bus starts braking, the motor is used as a generator, recharging the battery and effectively saving gas (the Orion VII HEV gets 3.27 MPG while diesel gets 2.31 MPG and CNG chugs in at 1.53 MPG). These beauties save money, and improve service “for the rest of us.”
