Chris.A Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 8:21 PM, DCTransitFilms said: Why They can't handle 45 fts? Space or not have the proper equipment? Have any AN459s been scrapped yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 On 10/20/2020 at 8:42 PM, Chris.A said: Have any AN459s been scrapped yet? quite a few are retired. Not sure if any were scrapped though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jova42R Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 8:21 PM, DCTransitFilms said: Why They can't handle 45 fts? Space or not have the proper equipment? both...they don't have the space or the new pump system also thats why fairview hasnt gotten xd60s yet - they dont have the pump system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 minute ago, Jova42R said: both...they don't have the space or the new pump system also thats why fairview hasnt gotten xd60s yet - they dont have the pump system. thought a few XD60s are there for training or entered service out of there according to the NYC Transit Forums? Not sure though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTA-(T)-Train Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 9522 is about to be scrapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jova42R Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/23/2020 at 11:53 AM, DCTransitFilms said: thought a few XD60s are there for training or entered service out of there according to the NYC Transit Forums? Not sure though. yes, but those were using the pump system at meadowlands (they would go there to use it then back to fairview) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted November 16, 2020 Report Share Posted November 16, 2020 New Jersey Transit is suing Academy: https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/attorney-general-files-lawsuit-against-bus-company-allegedly-defrauding-nj-transit Quote Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Bus Company for Allegedly Defrauding NJ Transit Submitted by RLS Staff on Nov 16 2020 - 11:28am. Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced today that the State has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Academy Bus, LLC (Academy), which advertises itself as the nation’s largest private transportation company, as well as related entities and individuals. The Attorney General’s complaint alleges the defendants defrauded New Jersey Transit (NJT) out of more than $15 million by vastly underreporting the number of scheduled bus trips that the company missed and charging fees for hours and miles driven for bus trips that never happened. Filed in state Superior Court in Essex County, the lawsuit alleges that Academy engaged in an “extensive multi-year, multi-million-dollar fraud” by failing to report tens of thousands of missed bus trips between April 2012 and December 2018. The case is the highest dollar-value whistleblower lawsuit in which the State has intervened. The Attorney General’s complaint further alleges that Academy’s fraud also “caused the riding public to suffer because Academy missed tens of thousands of bus trips on busy Hudson and South Hudson service area bus lines. Riders were delayed if not stranded.” Those two service areas primarily cover the Hudson County waterfront, serving riders in such towns as Bayonne and Jersey City, and include the heavily used Route 119 line for commuters traveling to and from New York City. “Most of us know how frustrating it can be to wait for a bus that doesn’t show up on time or never appears at all,” Attorney General Grewal said. “Our complaint against Academy Bus alleges that one reason for those late and missing buses has been a pervasive, multi-year fraud by Academy that not only cost riders their time but also cost NJ Transit many millions of dollars. With this lawsuit, we are seeking justice for the riding public as well as New Jersey taxpayers.” Academy operates seven NJT bus routes in the Hudson and South Hudson service areas. The seven NJT routes Academy handles involve approximately 175,000 bus trips each year. Academy bills NJT approximately $12 million annually for its services, while NJT retains all bus fares that Academy collects along the routes. Under its contract with NJT, Academy was required to report the number of bus trips that were missed for each bus route on a monthly basis. An individual “trip” is when a bus travels from one end-point of a route to the other end-point of a route. NJT would then deduct an assessment for each missed trip. Academy also charged NJT contractually-agreed upon fees for miles and hours driven along bus routes it handled for the agency. Academy could not charge fees for hours and miles driven for buses that did not run. The complaint announced today alleges that Academy overcharged NJT in at least two ways. First, by underreporting to NJT the number of bus trips it had missed for each month, Academy fraudulently avoided millions of dollars of missed trip deductions from the monthly invoices. Second, Academy fraudulently billed NJT for miles and hours driven for buses that had not actually run. The Attorney General’s complaint describes how Academy’s internal records tracked two sets of numbers – the real number of missed bus trips (which Academy labeled “RN”) and an adjusted set of false numbers, which was always significantly lower and which Academy eventually reported to NJT. The Attorney General’s complaint quotes from text messages between Academy employees where they communicated about how much they would reduce the “RN”/real numbers before sending them to NJT. In one instance, according to text messages quoted in the complaint, one employee proposed reducing the real number of missed trips for September 2018 from over 1800 to just 700. Another responded: “Bro bro. It’s 1800 missed, really – we are gambling with this huh?” Academy eventually reported 804.5 missed trips to NJT for that month, allegedly defrauding NJT by failing to report over 1000 missed trips. According to the complaint, the gap between the “real number” of missed trips and the number actually reported to NJT shrunk during periods when Academy knew NJT was actively monitoring Academy’s performance. The complaint alleges that Academy may have missed so many trips because it was shifting drivers from the NJT routes it covered to its more profitable charter bus routes. According to the complaint, one witness who worked as a dispatcher for Academy reported telling Academy’s President and CEO Francis Tedesco that diverting drivers would cause missed trips on NJT routes. Tedesco allegedly responded: “I don’t care about NJ Transit.” In addition to Hoboken-based Academy and its affiliated corporate entities Academy Lines, LLC; Academy Express, LLC; Number 22 Hillside, LLC; and No. 22 Hillside Corporation, the complaint announced today names as defendants: Thomas F.X. Scullin, the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for all of the corporate defendants; Frank DiPalma, the Controller of each of the corporate defendants; Antonio Luna, formerly an assistant manager at Number 22 Hillside, LLC and/or No. 22 Hillside Corporation, and now a part-time dispatcher; and Edward Rosario, a general manager at Number 22 Hillside, LLC and/or No. 22 Hillside Corporation. With this complaint, Attorney General Grewal has intervened in a qui tam action filed against Academy by a former Academy Terminal Manager Hector Peralta, who worked at Academy and 22 Hillside for 14 years. The New Jersey False Claims Act allows private parties, or relators, such as Mr. Peralta, to file lawsuits on behalf of New Jersey for violations of the False Claims Act, and to share in any recovery. The False Claims Act provides that the Attorney General may intervene in such an action. The complaint alleges two counts under New Jersey’s False Claims Act and one count of Unjust Enrichment, seeking treble damages, maximum civil penalties, attorneys’ fees, and costs, and disgorgement of any unlawfully obtained payments from NJT. The State is represented in the Academy Bus matter by Deputy Attorney General and Section Chief Lara Fogel, Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Section Chief Kenneth Levine, Deputy Attorney Generals Eric Boden and Dana Vasers, all from the Government & Healthcare Fraud Section of the Division of Law’s Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group, and Assistant Attorneys General Jeremy Hollander and Janine Matton of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted November 19, 2020 Report Share Posted November 19, 2020 A&C Bus 5760 is being reassigned to NJT. Spotted at CTF in NJ Colors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTA-(T)-Train Posted January 13, 2021 Report Share Posted January 13, 2021 9529 is not being preserved AFAIK. I don't know why it's being listed as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 New Jersey Transit is looking to redesign the Newark bus network: https://www.njtransit.com/newbus 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAX Transit 2000 Posted January 31, 2021 Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 New Jersey Transit 5064 is now preserved by a private owner and the bus was rescued from the junkyard in NYC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DCTransitFilms Posted February 27, 2021 Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 All Neoplans except 9503 are now retired. 9503 is the last remaining Neoplan in service which I believe will be gone soon possibly this weekend or next week 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jova42R Posted February 27, 2021 Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 19 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said: All Neoplans except 9503 are now retired. 9503 is the last remaining Neoplan in service which I believe will be gone soon possibly this weekend or next week 9503 is dead. Rest in peace Neoplan AN459 2003-2021 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted March 5, 2021 Report Share Posted March 5, 2021 The Final EIS for the Glassboro-Camden line has been released. It's expected to be a DMU light rail operated by NJT, similar to the Riverline: http://glassborocamdenline.com/post/final_eis_document Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted March 25, 2021 Report Share Posted March 25, 2021 Market Street garage will be renovated: https://www.nj.com/news/2021/03/120-year-old-nj-transit-bus-garage-to-get-a-makeover-and-addition.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroncoFan623 Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 Have you guys seen this? "NJ Transit adds Sunday bus service on 8 routes" https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-transit-adds-sunday-bus-service-on-8-routes.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 2 hours ago, BroncoFan623 said: Have you guys seen this? "NJ Transit adds Sunday bus service on 8 routes" https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-transit-adds-sunday-bus-service-on-8-routes.html yeah I saw it on the nyc transit forums a few days ago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroncoFan623 Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 2 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said: yeah I saw it on the nyc transit forums a few days ago Oh cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jova42R Posted May 4, 2021 Report Share Posted May 4, 2021 19046, owned by NJT and operated by Academy, is temporarily reassigned to Columbia University commuter shuttle operations, as a backup bus. It is tracking as C-Spare2. click the link below to track it. columbia.passiogo.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jova42R Posted May 6, 2021 Report Share Posted May 6, 2021 On 5/4/2021 at 1:27 PM, Jova42R said: 19046, owned by NJT and operated by Academy, is temporarily reassigned to Columbia University commuter shuttle operations, as a backup bus. It is tracking as C-Spare2. click the link below to track it. columbia.passiogo.com 19040-19046 are now assigned as spare buses due to breakdowns of 2020 CX45s Here are what the buses are tracking as: 19040-C19040 19041-C-Spare1 19042-C19042 19043-C19043 19044-UNKNOWN 19045-C19045 19046-C-Spare2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Deliveries of all 2020 XD60s are completed. 20910 entered service yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.A Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 3 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said: Deliveries of all 2020 XD60s are completed. 20910 entered service yesterday I thought these have all been delivered since March? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Chris.A said: I thought these have all been delivered since March? Deliveries finished in March. Not all units went into service immediately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCTransitFilms Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 Community Transport (Coach USA) will be taking over routes 22, 22X, 23, 88 and 119 on June 25 when the contract with Number 22 Hillside LLC (Academy Company) expire. https://www.nj.com/news/2021/06/new-bus-company-will-take-over-nj-transit-routes-in-busy-nj-county.html?fbclid=IwAR237G72OwYedMCW8pcH8Y_CCNu4yIoIuzqctR3M7hUsLXFWydTXAzepUzQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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