BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

On this day in 2026.........

Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in on the platform of the historic, long-abandoned IRT City Hall station.

A dignified (and, IMHO, most appropriate!) setting for the swearing in of a new "Noo Yawk" mayor............

"NYO"

*On Eyewitness News (4PM), when report was on showing the new "Hizzoner" being sworn in at the old City Hall station, there was a quick shot of a "6" train (R-62 "Silverboids") just entering the station)

["INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

On this day in 2017........

FINALLY, after a delay of DECADES, the "foist" section of the Second Avenue "stubway" opens (cannot believe that this took place close to nine years ago, already).......

'NYO"

["Q"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

One can only wonder wonder what ridership on the "Stubway" would be like today, had it been completed 70-odd years ago, as was originally planned.

In thinking of this, I wonder ifthe new "Tee-Yay" might have added a route designation letter, for "through" 2nd Avenue trains?

Might an existing route also run along "SAS" rails, during rush hours, as a "branch"?

Alas, we will never know............

"NYO"

["R-11"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"Bee" line rolling stock..........

Any of the "old veterans" still in use on the "Bee", or has the "new order" totally taken over?

"NYO"

["B"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

If you do "venture forth", I will, of course, be very much interested as to the status of older equipment on the "Bee".

WHY the need to go with electronic fare cards will always allude me; does EVERYTHING have to be "hi-tech" just because we are now in the "highly advanced" 21st century

Personally, as far as "high-tech" is concerned, I only go as far as "Buzz Lightyear", and no "foither"(!!)

Still wierd to think that, when the veteran "Brighton Belle" R-68s are finally retired, the fleet will be 100% "NTT", with nary a nod to the old "tried and true".........

"NYO"

["TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"BUZZ LIGHTYEAR TO STAR COMMAND-DO YOU READ ME, STAR COMMAND?"

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3582

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3588

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140991

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?161674

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["GAMMA QUADRANT: SECTOR 4"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"BUZZ LIGHTYEAR TO STAR COMMAND-I SEEM TO HAVE CRASHED ON SOME SORT OF WEIRD ALIEN PLANET.......THERE IS NO SIGN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE, WHATSOEVER.........."

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140946

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?161673

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

["THIS ISN'T FLYING! THIS IS FALLING WITH STYLE!"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Hostile alien lifeforms encountered when venturing forth "beyond infinity"......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156337

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["MISSION LOG Bx30:DESTROY EMPEROR ZURG!"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

Yep. Those growing up from here on out will never know what real forms of transportation (whether rapid or surface) actually looked like, or how they performed.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Cannot believe it now costs $3.00 to ride a "Noo Yawk" bus or subway; express buses are now charging over 7 bucks one way.

MN and the "El-Eye-Double-Are fares, have also jumped.

PATH's current (new fare) is light-years beyond the 30 cents I so well recall, when I started to "woik" downtown, in early 1979

If I were still working, Your's Truly be working just to pay for his commutation.........

"NYO"

["SIC TRANSIT GLORIA"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

I think you are wise.

Shoot, even paper transfers no longer exist.

What Your's Truly was pulling in each week, when I retired back in 2004, would barely be enough for my twice-daily commutation from "Joisey", no matter which way I chose to come into the city by..........

"NYO"