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Manhattanites: Think before you make weekend plans to see your friends in Williamsburg. Brooklynites who are L-train dependent: Don't expect to get to the Union Square Whole Foods that easily. The MTA confirms that weekend L-train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn will be shut down for at least seven weekends in 2006 while the agency upgrades signals to get the L ready for the robot trains. The MTA says this signal upgrade is already a year behind schedule, so using our special MTA time-continuum calculator, seven weekends will probably mean more like twelve where people will have to take the G to the F or the G to the 7 to get into Manhattan - or they'll just play "1903 Apartment," a time when the subways didn't exist. But it won't be just the hipsters who lose out: It'll be the store owners who depends on Manhattan hipsters for their weekend sales.
Last week New York magazine trolled the Brooklyn nabes along the L. And Gothamist's L-train stories.
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FCK YOU MTA! I've been dealing with this L train shite for 4 years now. How about they use some of that 'surplus' to hire more people get the goddamn job done?!!??!?!?!? But I suppose that would take leadership and vision- instead we get reduced rates on some weekends over the holidays.
Screw it, i'm buying a car.
And did anyone else get stranded by the L train on the way to work this morning? During rush hour the trains went out of service and everyone was roaming around in confusion trying to find an alternate route to Manhattan. I had to walk down to the JMZ and was very late to work. Curses!
yikes, this morning ride to work was a real pain!
If only there was a pic of Jen Chung to contemplate while standing in a crowded-non-moving L train...
one can only wish =)
This is an outrage!
Where is the people/businesses protesting?
All because of that money wasting robo-train idea? I'm so mad!
You bet Marty will get a letter from me - but where is the public protest?
the real problem is with the original planning of the two brooklyn crosstown lines (the g and l). where every other line in the city has express lines (i.e. four tracks per line) the g and l, you may have noticed, do not. which makes them much more susceptible to these kinds of problems. when you need to work on a piece of rail you have no choice but to close down the line while the work is being done. this is why almost everyother subway system in the world closes down late at night (nobody else has the express lines!). so complain all you want but until they start laying down new track there ain't nothing you can do.
Oh, please. You think NYC (my hometown) has it bad? Sheesh. Here in Chicago in the 1990s they shut down an entire line for two years to rebuild it. And right now, they're closing every other station on another major line (yes, that's every second station) for a multi-year rehab job. Seven weekend closures? People on the Brown Line here would kill for just seven weekend closures. This, I'm betting, is not going to spell the end of the world for Billburg. I mean, let's face it. Hispters can afford to cab it to Brooklyn, anyway.
>>>They can't be bothered to actually stand up for anything, let alone New York (as evidenced by yuppies' strong support of Bloomberg).
Yeah, right, Freddie will tame the MTA!
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"It's because Williamsburgers are laid-back California/Midwest types who stroll around casually sipping coffee and listening to their iPods while walking their pet chihuahuas. They can't be bothered to actually stand up for anything, let alone New York"
C'mon with the stereotypes.
There;s plenty of us along the L that won't bend over and are ready to challenge the MTA.
There's got to be an alternative that doesn't involve a full closure of the line for that long of a time period. Just a few months ago they did run on a single track after the rush hours while working on the signals. That was a pain for commuters but a neccessary evil. This is just too much. Where do we organize against this?
I wish you L-train prima-donnas would stop complaining. Once this project is done, virtually the whole line will have been rebuilt, limiting the need for construction in the future.
The same work will be done on the Culver Line (F-train in Brooklyn) in several pieces over who knows how many years, and it has barely started!
And Bloomberg's appointees to the MTA will be better?
i think its a great thing , now we wont have all that trash coming into the city, fuck bk