AA's "Fat Flier" Got Whole Row
Ashley Dupre On Tiger Woods' Babes: "At Least I Kept My Mouth Shut"
Same-Sex Marriage Blame Game Aims at Paterson, Addabbo
Rihanna's Random Airport Search
Wife Tries To Abort And Poison Husband's Lovechild
This past weekend, residents and business owners held a rally to protest the 7 line's weekend service disruptions. They were probably also complaining about MTA's poor efforts to explain new directions during the diversions as well.
The work on the 7 line, which is to upgrade signals and other infrastructure, will continue for another four weekends. And one of those weekends is a big bar day - St. Patrick's Day on March 17 - leading bars and restaurants wondering how they'll fare. Businesses and residents who rely on the 7 train to get to their jobs say they are suffering. WNBC reported about the protest, noting that City Councilman Eric Gioia felt the shutdown "created an undue hardship for the borough of Queens," with shuttle bus service being "insufficient and inconvenient."
But businesses aren't the only ones hurting, families are being kept apart, too. One woman told amNew York, "I'm trying to go visit my aunt in Flushing. I really can't spend much time with her though. So if it is going to take twice as long to get there, I guess I'll skip it."
Here's the MTA's PDF of the diversions. The Daily News had an editorial chastising the MTA yesterday, "no matter how great the gain later on, the MTA is doubling the pain on riders now."
Photographs of the 7 line's shutdown and diversions by joshbousel on Flickr
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Not to mention the Chinese New Year festivities in Flushing next weekend!
Are you kidding me! Living off the L line for the past 4 years, we have had to deal with regular weekend shutdowns. Yes, 4 years of on and off train service during the weekends. How about a cute little press conference on this side of Newtown Creek...
Shut the fuck up and get on the bus, and its free. Its not that fucking hard. I heard 3 different people at Queensboro Plaza BSing their way out of appointments and work "7 train isnt running, its not running, are you going to pay for my taxi", and I love when a 20 something year old woman at Vernon Blvd looks at the group of people and asks if this is the bus, the group says yes, then she looks confused, and hails down a taxi begging him for help. Holy shit, its just a bus, get on the fucking bus and stop using it as a excuse on why your 3rd cousin got cancer and you got a paper cut at work needing stiches.
These whiners wouldn't have lasted five minutes through WW II rationing and such. Funny how politicians say the President should ask more of us in a time of "war". As long as "more" is "taxes on everyone that makes more than me" I can't fathom how our current society would survive even the slightest inconvenience.
Amen, Joe. Amen.
You can switch to one of 3 other lines at Jackson ave to get into Manhattan... it's really not that much of a tragedy for a few weekends. Or a bus if you're at one of the unserved stations. Sheesh. These changes happen all the time on other lines as well and there's no way around this one since they are installing a switch which will go a long way towards improving service.
Is this part of computer-based train control? Or have they given up on that now?
@joe: I found the "four weeks" part pretty fishy, too.
We have ONE TRAIN in my part of town. Unfortunately, it's the L, and for THREE FUCKING YEARS it's been out of service many weekends, not running after "midnight" (which means 11:30) for weeks on end, and partially replaced by inadequate bus service many other weekends. And then there are random 5mph rides because they have workers in the tunnel at rush hour or one river tunnel is closed.
We've been putting up with this shit since 2004, at least, and you're staging protests and fucking press conferences because your train is out of service for a few weekends?
Suck it up and take one of the other trains that serve your area.
The Q32 or the Q60 buses will take you down Queens Blvd and across the bridge in no time. Or get off at Queens Plaza and catch any number of trains. I lived in Queens for years, and the 7 was down every other damn weekend in the summer. And if it was running, it was usually skipping local stops. I actually preferred taking the bus because it was faster going to the UES and often way less crowded.
I don't think the train/bus situation on the 7 is that terrible, but the protests are justified. The MTA has a way of really sticking it to NYC residents and they should know that their customers are dissatisfied (not that it seems to make any difference to them).
I don't think the train/bus situation on the 7 is that terrible, but the protests are justified. The MTA has a way of really sticking it to NYC residents and they should know that their customers are dissatisfied (not that it seems to make any difference to them).
all these complaints about the subway: makes you wonder what MTA is really doing. I live on the 1 line and regardless of service changes the service is always awful: crowded trains, trains that never arrive etc.