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Green lines and Triboro Corp vs. NICE bus

 
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R62CNG
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:57 pm    Post subject: Green lines and Triboro Corp vs. NICE bus Reply with quote

Between the 3 of these TA's, which one had the worst maintenance? I think Triboro Corp to be honest.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think you can compare PBL's with NICE. The situations are different.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's hard for me to fault PBL's like Triboro and Green when the city sat on funds for new buses for years and failed to regularly renew their fleets.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is still more than that. Operating subsidies were "delayed " at times. At GBL, management would take out personal loans to make sure paychecks were good on Thursday. While the city stuck it to the companies to push them out, the companies made sure the workers were not hurt.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I meant in terms of the state of the buses themselves.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GBL Rebel wrote:
There is still more than that. Operating subsidies were "delayed " at times. At GBL, management would take out personal loans to make sure paychecks were good on Thursday. While the city stuck it to the companies to push them out, the companies made sure the workers were not hurt.



GBL Rebel,

Boy! this sure doesn't sound like the Green Line I worked for - are you sure it was the same company?

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

R62CNG wrote:
I meant in terms of the state of the buses themselves.


NICE has a fleet that is much newer. NICE has expiration dates on all the buses. 2 things both GBL and TCC did not have going for them. And once you are down equipment, sometimes it is hard to come back.

Again, I don't think you can compare, but that's my opinion.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Linsky wrote:
GBL Rebel wrote:
There is still more than that. Operating subsidies were "delayed " at times. At GBL, management would take out personal loans to make sure paychecks were good on Thursday. While the city stuck it to the companies to push them out, the companies made sure the workers were not hurt.



GBL Rebel,

Boy! this sure doesn't sound like the Green Line I worked for - are you sure it was the same company?

Regards,

Mr. 'L'


The Cooper family made sure the employees were paid. No matter what, you took your check to the bank and got your money. I never had a check bounce. The city tried to make times hard, and The Cooper's did not pass the burden.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, what do you know? He was right!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks as though they repainted #1816. I assume the bus was repainted white while they had warped the Orange and Blue decals on?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice is suppose to get more money this year from the county, so hopefully their maintance practices improve somewhat and they could repaint the rest of the 2008-2009 Orion VII NG CNGs and then move on to the 2010-2011 units.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NICE is getting an increase in state funding for the next year. Veolia is looking for the county to increase its funding for NICE, but I haven't read that county executive Ed Mangano has agreed to do so yet.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RailBus63 wrote:
NICE is getting an increase in state funding for the next year. Veolia is looking for the county to increase its funding for NICE, but I haven't read that county executive Ed Mangano has agreed to do so yet.
It was said somewhere that NICE's budget is increasing this year to 3.1 million from the current 2.6 million.
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