NYC Buses (Spring 1996) (When the RTS was KING)

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  • Kal-El uploads a vintage archive dating back to the spring of 1996 containing footage of various vintage transit equipment operating in New York City
    this archive comes from fellow transit archivist
    S. Street
    When NYC was NYC
    Hope you enjoy this archive!!
    This video is for viewing pleasure only!
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  • @bleuaqua8102
    @bleuaqua8102 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Who else still has 1) the bus' exhaust smell 2) memory of the heat from back seat against the engine or 3) feeling of the plastic rails on the back of seats imprinted in their mind forever?

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@bleuaqua8102 me

    • @ccreary2441
      @ccreary2441 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Me too.

    • @arjl880
      @arjl880 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Me too

    • @christopherstory2136
      @christopherstory2136 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      4) and them being used on expess routes with high seats...

    • @bleuaqua8102
      @bleuaqua8102 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@christopherstory2136 😂

  • @dejohn913
    @dejohn913 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Talk About RTS Memories. The "RTS" Was The "Official" Transit Bus Of The MTA From 1981-2018.They Were The "Honda Accord" Of Buses, And Damn I Missed Those New York Bus Brakes, Even When Brand New, They've Never Sound Sweeter. 10+++++ Thank You For The "Original" Memories.

  • @duguid82
    @duguid82 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Memories of buses we'll never see again.

    • @redsox1935
      @redsox1935 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      We do it’s just remixed and remodeled for modern times

  • @knightclassic1
    @knightclassic1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    GAWD DAMMIT!!!!! I don't understand of how can people still living in the Big Apple without those LEGENDS (RTS). Miss those MCI CLASSICS AND ORION 5s. But RTSs were the KINGS. LOVE LIVE RTS !!! ❤️.

  • @loolooland1
    @loolooland1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Back when riding transit in NYC was fun. Now its mid and dull and boring and everyone's in a bad mood. I'd rlly like to go back to the 90s and early 00s to ride these....

    • @carlosvasquez2196
      @carlosvasquez2196 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      90s and early 00s were the best times. Miss those days.

    • @gtavstepfordcounty1733
      @gtavstepfordcounty1733 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Heck yeah they were the greatest times of my life a time where shows taught meaningful lessons like sharing and feelings gone are those days

    • @StevenStivoskim
      @StevenStivoskim 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Everyone is in a bad mood because they’re all on edge. Fearful of assault, rape, and murder.

    • @GeneralHawk505
      @GeneralHawk505 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Your name describes exactly what it has become. Agreed.

    • @carlosvasquez2196
      @carlosvasquez2196 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@StevenStivoskim nah. The loonies me ntally ill,gangs violence are out of control.

  • @joefinley350
    @joefinley350 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I miss those RTS buses and now the current New Flyers are the dominating youngst version of RTS buses

  • @GeneralHawk505
    @GeneralHawk505 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Along with the old buses look at all when the 1990s Crown victoria was the KING car of the streets of our once stylish city. Town cars everywhere as limos and what not. It was great back then.

  • @brooklynelite5428
    @brooklynelite5428 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really miss those buses they were big and roomy inside compared to the plastic feel cramped buses they have now. Does anyone remember these NYCTA RTS buses having an all white plastic panel interior before it was changed to the dark grey color. We actually still had streets before bike, and pedestrian lanes started destroying the street space we had. Looking all those missed and loved buses you also see cars, which were a joy to have instead of now pointless SUV everywhere. I miss those old fun NYC.

  • @elijahbee34
    @elijahbee34 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    As a kid..I didn't like them..now as an adult, I appreciate them more and wish it was still around.

  • @adammars1438
    @adammars1438 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember taking a ride on an RTS along the M42 around 2014. The RTS will forever be my favorite bus in NYC!

  • @bigzclipz5104
    @bigzclipz5104 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The sounds of the brakes bring me good memories

  • @matthewhernandez8342
    @matthewhernandez8342 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember riding these RTS on the Q32 from Penn Station up to 52nd street and Roosevelt Avenue by the 7 train in Woodside. Also remember them on the Q29 going to high school by Queens Center Mall.

  • @BrooklynBound4
    @BrooklynBound4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great footage! What great memories! The RTS Novas rules the city streets

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      GMC, TMC & Novabus

  • @Penske_Logistics_Roseburg-Ore
    @Penske_Logistics_Roseburg-Ore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I really miss seeing the RTS and the Flexible busses.
    I do like the Gillig busses as they are locally near my home in Saratoga, Ca about 45 miles east in Livermore, Ca and they create so many jobs for so many people.
    But I really miss the older busses from RTS.
    When I came to the US from Japan, (my native country), I used to always ride the bus in the 1980s and we had both buses the RTS and the Grumman/Flexible.
    They both were my favorite.
    Today we only have Gillig (American Company) and New Flyer (A Canadian Company).
    Orion was never purchased as the county of Santa Clara, didn't like their buses.
    These days I drive a lot as my job is working for Penske and I drive large trucks daily.

  • @jarell1996
    @jarell1996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i was born in 96 but i remember growing up when i would come to nyc i would see these buses and always wanted to ride one and back in 03-04 i got to ride will never forget these legends

  • @YuDoThat101
    @YuDoThat101 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'll never forget being on that bus and the driver was definitely letting us know the bus ain't no slouch that bus and the hot bus will forever be my favorites

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BxM?

    • @YuDoThat101
      @YuDoThat101 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kalelc1996 it was in Brooklyn a B3 going to kings Plaza and Long 5 block with 2 streetlights that he made both 2 block apart on each light that bus hauls zzz while everything shakes 🤣, i❤️mta

  • @harysuper
    @harysuper หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for uploading! These used to be all over LA and OC! We still have one in our historical fleet here at Metro!

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  หลายเดือนก่อน

      No problem! I'm glad you enjoyed it there's more coming soon

  • @WooBino.
    @WooBino. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I remember starting them up with the air starters...loved that sound.

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Love that

    • @xavilopez4716
      @xavilopez4716 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yea I remember that sound when the bus driver started it up . This model type buses was my high school days ride 😊. Great memories great time 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@xavilopez4716 I have a video of a really loud air start just look through my channel

    • @xavilopez4716
      @xavilopez4716 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kalelc1996 cool thanks. I will look thru . 🍻🍻😁

  • @jorgefigueroa4437
    @jorgefigueroa4437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Beautiful RTS. This ones have a similitude with 1981 and 1983 San Juan AMA units in blue belt scheme later changed in 1985 and 1991

    • @RobertPaniagua
      @RobertPaniagua 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I lived in Puerto Rico in the early 1980s and I remember those AMA RTS buses!

    • @user-yc2oz8kc5k
      @user-yc2oz8kc5k หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were introduced in 1980. It was so unreal to ride in new buses after la AMA was using red or blue Flxibles and white GM Fishbowls. Those RTS's had no sliding windows, only flush glass (check out the bus at 10:47) Their AC was ice cold and it only cost 50 cents to ride in them. They were exactly like these NYC transit buses, white with the blue stripe, but had the AMA diamond below the drivers window. Wow those memories.

    • @jorgefigueroa4437
      @jorgefigueroa4437 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-yc2oz8kc5k In October 1980 AMA place th 1st order of 35ft units, and finish in February 1981 when RTS 04 introduced. You are right, no sliding windows on RT, the 1st unit featuring sliding windows was 1991 Flxible Metro 35ft. used on Metrobus, later 1995 the sliding windows are available in whole fleet, but in 2010 and now return to a complete sealed windows

  • @CRAPO2011
    @CRAPO2011 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Air conditioning sucked in many of these, not until the refurbished ones with the cap on top did they get good.

  • @S3NDP13
    @S3NDP13 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ohhh my goodness! I miss these busses! In the winter, the rear bus seats were close to a heater and they were as close as we could get to actual heated seats! Also these buses just had that good sounding engine rumble when it picked up speed.
    I fucking miss it all so much....😭

  • @nezarionbraxton8790
    @nezarionbraxton8790 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    DAMN man those RTS Buses take me back to my childhood, those buses were literally the Barbarians of NYC Transit, why did Transit have to do away with those? they should've kept those i mean yes i know they were old but i mean come on those Buses were the RTS Kings and they always will be 😎👊

  • @robertcamble3543
    @robertcamble3543 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember comi g down I 78 east one night & pulled up on one of these bad ass buses owned by n.j transit coming from phili & even at 80 m.p.h couldnt pass it . I never knew those buses could haul ass like that . Last of the good looking transit buses .

  • @carlosvasquez2196
    @carlosvasquez2196 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss those taxis 😂❤

  • @alexguity20
    @alexguity20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I miss those good old rts days when they were taking over NYC transit in all 5 boroughs

  • @sparkswolverine
    @sparkswolverine หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I feel that the last years of revenue service for these buses, the legroom got tighter, which is obviously very uncomfortable.

    • @S3NDP13
      @S3NDP13 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Definitely! And the seat closest to the window in those 2 seaters in the back has an annoying ledge that makes it uncomfortable to sit in. Feels like it takes up more useable seat room on purpose. Which is annoying.

  • @kedrinraymond5261
    @kedrinraymond5261 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The RTS bus was a great bus but the driver’s seat didn’t go back far enough it felt like you were driving with your knees

  • @simonmiller5405
    @simonmiller5405 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thnk it wasl the Orion V was #618..a X10 assigned to Castleton depot

  • @kevinoutlaw2764
    @kevinoutlaw2764 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Look how fast those buses were going…in the middle of the day. Before all the bus lanes and bike lanes, and citibike stations, all designed to reduce traffic and make it “faster”

    • @Clipper1094
      @Clipper1094 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      How would they justify congestion pricing if they didn’t find ways to cause it in the first place?

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's the 1st thing I noticed when I watched it for the first time

    • @Spectacular66
      @Spectacular66 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Was just about to comment on that. Things used to move a lot quicker back then!

    • @stevenasante8662
      @stevenasante8662 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No they were designed to make traffic slower, and thus push people away from their vehicles

  • @BE40_Zx5
    @BE40_Zx5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    love to see this!

  • @user-sj3df2xy3b
    @user-sj3df2xy3b วันที่ผ่านมา

    I loved the TA and MaBSTOA RTS II buses with the single seats on one side…you had room to move around….The franchisees (Green,Jamaica,Queens Surface….with the double forward seats totally sucked

  • @PRiNCE_MiR97_GAMiNG
    @PRiNCE_MiR97_GAMiNG 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    These were the Redbirds of busses

  • @kalelc1996
    @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I re-upload this for you guys

  • @jamallhayden2512
    @jamallhayden2512 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank You!

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're welcome!

  • @jorgegaston5391
    @jorgegaston5391 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    6:55 me standing there on my way back to the office

  • @therckoger5405
    @therckoger5405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I enjoy this video 😊

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm glad!

  • @WestchesterXBeeline
    @WestchesterXBeeline หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome!

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks!

    • @WestchesterXBeeline
      @WestchesterXBeeline หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kalelc1996Oh I got a question to ask you by the way

  • @WooBino.
    @WooBino. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The very first RTS buses had no sliding windows and looked even better than this model. Front dash was all blue, until later models that were painted black.

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember those

  • @alanmays7935
    @alanmays7935 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was 11 years old

  • @marcuscerdanshow4522
    @marcuscerdanshow4522 หลายเดือนก่อน

    GMC/TMC AND NovaBus

  • @Nelson-od9ns
    @Nelson-od9ns 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When it’s going to be a Orion V CNG cummins L10 G video MTA Brooklyn

    • @kalelc1996
      @kalelc1996  วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Nelson-od9ns when one circulates

  • @knightclassic1
    @knightclassic1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Uhh Ohhh i see an 1984 GMC. 3433

  • @frankscognamillo3758
    @frankscognamillo3758 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Easy to maneuver.