G Train Will Extend to Prospect Park South in July

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Good news for anyone sick of getting off the G at Smith and 9th Street and waiting for an F train just to go a couple more stops: Starting July 5th, the G train will continue on for five more stops into Brooklyn. The additional service is being added because of the massive Culver Viaduct Rehabiliation project, which, according to the Post, will prevent the G train from reversing itself at the next stop (Fourth Avenue). Come summer it will stop at Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street, Seventh Avenue, 15th Street-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway before finally reversing course after the Church Avenue stop. This may be the best silver lining to the rehab work being done at Smith and 9th Street; last we heard the MTA plans to close the station entirely for at least nine months next year, and the entire project is expected to take 4 years. A spokesman for NYC Transit tells us, "We have said that we would look to make the [G train] terminal change permanent, as it makes sense both from a customer and operational perspective."

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By John Del Signore in News on May 18, 2009 10:23 AM

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janelle

"We have said that we would look to make the [G train] terminal change permanent, as it makes sense both from a customer and operational perspective."

file under: DUH

jenNYork

this is great news... i've been using the G train for approx 7 yrs straight and it IS better than it used to be. Safer & pretty predictable with it's timetable. This extension to Park Slope South is one small step for the shit storm that is the MTA in 2009.

jenNYork

this is great news... i've been using the G train for approx 7 yrs straight and it IS better than it used to be. Safer & pretty predictable with it's timetable. This extension to Park Slope South is one small step for the shit storm that is the MTA in 2009.

farleft

Only problem is the G is so short it stops way the hell at the opposite side of the platform from wherever you are. And by the time you sprint to the open doors to get on, the conductor pokes his head out of the wondow just in time to see that you're almost on and decided to closes the door on your pathetic ass. Every time.

firewire

when the MTA makes permanent changes like this, i presume they have to update every single subway map on every single subway car of every single subway train and every map in every wall or free-standing case in every single subway station in every single burrough.

KiljoyWasHere

I'll believe it when I see it.

books

I dream of day when the G train goes into manhattan.

LongShanks

OMG. Now the hipster migration can go even further south. Rejoice!

endoubleu

You mean Windsor Terrace and Kensington, not Prospect Park South. PPS is a bit to the east of where the G will run and is served by the Church Avenue stop on the B and Q.

militza

glad I don't take the G train regularly cause good lord when people run to catch that thing they're running as if their life depends on it! anyone in the way better stear clear or else get mowed down. however, given the shortness of the train itself and the infrequency at which it runs I can understand why.

Neil Epstein

This is exciting if it actually runs on time!

jaycjay

The G, in fact, has one of the better on-time records in the system. But because it's scheduled to run less often than most of the lines that connect with it people tend to assume that it's running late even when it is on schedule, just because they have to wait for it.

jonmiz

How about reinstating G train service past Court Square on the Queens side? Or better yet, how about just making it go one stop further to Queens Plaza so that you don't have to take an extra train one stop to get from the R-V line to the G? I seriously hate the MTA.

endoubleu

The G can't turn around at Queens Plaza, there's no switch across the tracks there. To make it possible would be an expensive and time-consuming project, and the MTA already has enough of those these days...

petercow99

The G actually used to be able to turn at Queens Plaza. The construction of the link from the Queens Blvd. line to the 63rd Street tunnel, required the removal of those 'pocket tracks'.