A drizzly commute on a Tuesday morning. Surface traffic in the city backed up through the the tunnel all the way up the bus lane. Music credit: toolofgod.com/m...
Thank you for posting this video along with the other videos showing you driving to NYC. I miss riding the bus to NYC. I used to do it a lot when I was growing up and my mom and I took the bus from Pennsylvania into Port Authority. Your videos brought back a lot of good memories. Please keep posting these videos!
great vid man! cool to see the journey from this perspective, i take the bus all the time from rockaway to port authority (i live right up the street!)
I will always say thank you to any bus operator i see that's no easy task driving a big ole vehicle anywhere and this operator here seemed so calm with all those speeding cars on the highway and man is it always that much traffic going in and out of that lincoln tunnel
Thank you! Great video… My wife is a schoolteacher in Rockaway and we live in Denville NJ. I used to take the 77 into the PA from Livingston for years. This was very interesting as I’ve never experienced the ride this way.
Watching from the Uk. It seems much like "everyone" all trying to get into the city at the same time! then later on ...they are al going the other way.!))
At the time I filmed this, we were specifically assigned something like 6 angle spaces in the north wing 4th floor, so we didn't have that option. Since then they took away those spots when DeCamp eliminated their line runs, and we are relegated to the basement
I'm retired NYCT. Quick Question - Do you have regular riders who you waited 1-2 min cause they late? & one day you waited & left. the next time they got mad at you. or the ones huffing buffing behind you cause unusual traffic, so they late for whatever. LOL Thanks + Stay Safe w/ all the reckless drivers Tri state.
Most of my trips are extra-capacity trips, so for one thing I am not anyone's everyday driver, and for another my bus is usually unscheduled, and the scheduled bus will be along soon after mine. So the short answer is, I don't have to deal with that on my commuter trips. On the other hand, on my school bus runs, when I was doing a regular route, I sometimes had stragglers. I let them know I'm not waiting around past the official time for their stop. In some cases it would have been impossible to wait, since some stops were in the middle of a busy street at an intersection with nowhere to pull over anyway.
If I may ask - What time in the morning do you depart for Port Authority on this run? And - How many runs are you allowed to do in a day to and from Port Authority? Thank you so much again for these videos. Stay safe!
When I personally do that run it usually leaves Rockaway at 6:40. We have a number of other times as well. Full time drivers usually do 2 circuits a day. Senior drivers often choose back to back (e.g. going into NYC at 5am and 11am), and the less senior drivers are stuck with a split shift: one morning and one evening rush.
How does the fare register work? I’m thinking about doing commuter bus service. I have a CDL class A license and been driving a tractor trailer for 16 years. Anyway again only thing I’m worried about is how to use the fare register. Yes I’m watching but still curious
Ours is pretty basic, no automated cash handling or scanning of customer devices. You sign in with the route info, select current zone as you drive, and it keeps count of tickets and cash collected. The interface is a little dated and hard to navigate like an old printer, but it's not too complicated. It helps that our lines don't have all that many stops.
I could apply to work for them; I believe they have their own training program I'd need to go through. As far as I know they only hire full timers, and new hires get stuck with the poo routes
There's traffic in places where there aren't any buses. People driving slow, camping in the left lane, and trucks all make traffic worse. If more people took public transportation, there'd be less traffic.
I must admit seeing you drive this bus on to what for me is the wrong side of the road feels very confusing. I keep thinking your going to pull to the left side when making turns. But thats because I have only ever been to countries where they drive on the left hand side of the road.
That congestion wastes so much time for everyone and increases the cost of running the bus service as each bus can't do as many trips as they lose hours every day in traffic!
There's only so much room in Manhattan for all the vehicles to go. The only way to address this would be to further restrict or tax low-occupancy cars coming in, and you can guess how popular that would be with the rich and powerful
@@yitznewton Most of the people driving in Manhattan are neither rich nor powerful, they're entitled narcissists who believe they are the center of the universe. The truly wealthy wouldn't care about an extra $15 in congestion pricing. In fact they'd probably like it because is will cut down on street traffic.
