BY.. BY... BUS... !!! * USA - The living-dead buses in the Bronx
Some day, that bus you're riding will end up in a windy, sprawling asphalt lot along a marsh in the Bronx, the place where NYC Transit buses come to dieNew York,NY,USA -The NY Daily News, by PETE DONOHUE - October 31, 2008: -- Under a new program, buses that have traveled, on average, more than 400,000 bumpy miles on city streets are sent to the MTA's Eastchester Bus Depot, a 27-acre site in an industrial pocket near the New England Thruway...
The rigs' final hours are far from peaceful... The buses either limp into the depot or are towed in, where teams of mechanics ravage each one in power-tool blitzes lasting 30 hours a piece... The deconstruction experts salvage up to 80 different parts to be reused - everything from rear-view mirrors to windows to 1,500-pound transmissions...
Business is booming. The salvage operation already expanded to include handling MTA Police Department cars, and Smith just posted online 25 bus transmissions for sale... Mechanics, who spent years putting pieces of a puzzle together so a bus as a whole works efficiently, enjoy working from the other end of the equation... "This is actually relaxing," Murphy said. "You're tearing things apart. You're not as worried. This is fun"... (Photos by Alvarez/News : 1 · Buses await sale for scrap metal after they have been stripped of usable parts at the MTA Bus Recycling Center at Eastchester Bus Depot on Hutchinson Ave. in the Bronx - 2· Teams of mechanics have stripped bus' interior of windows, seats - anything that can be used or sold, saving MTA thousands - 3 · These transmissions after being salvaged from buses, are being sold) Labels: buses' final
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