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shortlineMCI
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 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Here's a good trivia question... |
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What does "KJ" stand for in regards to Rockland County's KJ Express?
Answer will be posted on Saturday night when I return from my two day cruise to nowhere on board the Magnificent Carnival Miracle! 
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ripta42
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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קרית יואל
(If they transliterated it right, it'd be "KY Express"  ) |
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nycbusfan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| ripta42 wrote: | קרית יואל
(If they transliterated it right, it'd be "KY Express" ) |
In english it would be Krias Joel.
Here is a photo of one of their buses.
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ripta42
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| nycbusfan wrote: | | In english it would be Krias Joel.[/img] |
Kiryas Joel (or, more accurately, Kiryas Yoel) |
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shortlineMCI
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YES!!! Kiryas Joel is correct! KJ Express is owned by Monsey Tours, which also owns Monroe Bus. Kiryas Joel is a small town in lower Orange county New York that is a smaller suburb of Central Valley that is highly orthodox jewish community.
Very good! nycbusfan..nice pix..that is one of the new buses purchased for them by Orange County. You should have seen what they were running before the O/C purchases..I'm talking MC-9s, MC-8s. MC9 Crusaders. They would have run them till the wheels fell off. In the meantime, the bus companies owners are extremely rich. do you see how that works? Little to no pay for the drivers? Running Smithsonian aged buses, and filty rich owners.
I noticed in my first post, I mentioned KJ is in Rockland county. That is not correct. KJ is in Orange county. |
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nycbusfan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| shortlineMCI wrote: | YES!!! Kiryas Joel is correct! KJ Express is owned by Monsey Tours, which also owns Monroe Bus. Kiryas Joel is a small town in lower Orange county New York that is a smaller suburb of Central Valley that is highly orthodox jewish community.
Very good! nycbusfan..nice pix..that is one of the new buses purchased for them by Orange County. You should have seen what they were running before the O/C purchases..I'm talking MC-9s, MC-8s. MC9 Crusaders. They would have run them till the wheels fell off. In the meantime, the bus companies owners are extremely rich. do you see how that works? Little to no pay for the drivers? Running Smithsonian aged buses, and filty rich owners.
I noticed in my first post, I mentioned KJ is in Rockland county. That is not correct. KJ is in Orange county. |
Monsey and Monroe still have some buses that are over 20 years old.
Here is a photo of Monsey Trails 605 a 1984 MCI MC-9.
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shortlineMCI
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 LOL! Yep! That what makes up the bulk of their (Monroe, Monsey, and KJ Express) fleet.
Sad looking things. The drivers have to deal with the School bus style pull handles to get the front doors closed.
Three (maybe two) of the MC-8's still have stick shifts. C'mon Rabbi's!! Give them up already. NIMCO is calling!!!! |
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Dieseljim
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: Stick Shift Buses |
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| Capitol Trailways of Pennsylvania was running at least one stickshift MC9 as late as 2003, when I saw it in Harrisburg enroute to or from Baltimore. It may have been the last MC9 still running in full Capitol livery. |
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N4 Jamaica
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Kiryas Joel is an incorporated village, not a town. Generally speaking, in New York State, towns are contiguous subdivisions within counties, as Nassau has 3 towns, Suffolk has 10, and Orange has 20. Villages are incorporated by demand, often for the purpose of more strictly controlling what happens inside their borders. Most New York villages are surrounded by a town. I am quite sure that a NY village resident pays village property taxes, some town taxes, and some county taxes.
Link to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel[url] |
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shortlineMCI
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| N4 Jamaica wrote: | | Kiryas Joel is an incorporated village, not a town. Generally speaking, in New York State, towns are contiguous subdivisions within counties, as Nassau has 3 towns, Suffolk has 10, and Orange has 20. |
Aw c'mon..now your splitting hairs
But now that you got me started..................
The jews that live there actually got the local post office to open up on sunday to accomodate the Sabbath. Can you believe? I don't know what the post office does on Saturday though. A post office that's opened 7 days a week? |
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