Busjack Posted Monday at 09:27 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 09:27 PM 1 hour ago, Javi75 said: How come 6 is usually one of the last garages to get newer buses I might have mentioned it before, but this was the case when 69th/74th was out of sync with other garages. Recent history goes to when 74 opened in 1995, and it got 110 6000s as well as had some 4000s and got some 4400s from NP (which got an equivalent amount of 5800s). I mentioned how K got the shaft when its 6000s were sent to FG for its 5500s. This was finally rectified when K got 1110-1219. 74th still had its 6000s, so there wasn't an impetus to replace them with 1000s, except for 30 buses--and @artthouwill: the 5300s were not 1993, but 1991), especially when 103rd"s and NP's fleets were falling apart so quickly that there were two odd/even splits. 74 finally got back into sync when Archer closed and 74th and F got 6400s from there. As I noted earlier today, 6400s were replaced by 7900s, including at 74th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungBusLover Posted Tuesday at 02:30 AM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 02:30 AM 6 hours ago, Javi75 said: How come 6 is usually one of the last garages to get newer buses when it has the longest bus routes such as the 9, X9, 49, X49, 62 and 94. If the 1000s and 7900s at 7 are high in mileage where do the 1000s and 7900s at 6 stand in mileage? NP does help save 6 on the 49 and X49 but those other routes are pretty long. With the exception of FG getting the first 8350s, I thought they were going to be assigned based on which garage has the highest mileage routes. Well if you want to get technical about it post-2008 when they got stuck with almost the entire fleet of #6000s to maintain, 74th was the 2nd garage to receive brand new buses in regards to the #8000s coming there after 77th got there #7900s but since then it has become the wild wild west around the entire system in regards to who gets what based off of age, mileage or this case "Rust". If 74th had the same issues K,NP and C were having with there 3/4 option #1000s I'm pretty sure they would of received something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted Tuesday at 05:13 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 05:13 PM 14 hours ago, YoungBusLover said: Well if you want to get technical about it post-2008 when they got stuck with almost the entire fleet of #6000s to maintain, As I recently mentioned, FG got about half of the 6000s as a result of the preheater swap. It was about half and half between FG and 74th until Archer closed and both got its 6400s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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