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Forget about the subway this weekend, just forget it; it's a perfect storm of aggravation: Of the 20 lines that operate on the weekends, 18 will suffer some type of "serious" delays between tomorrow and Sunday. Riders on the 5, A, F, G, L and E have to do the dreaded shuttle-bus transfer at various points along their routes; the 1, 2, 7, B, N, J and R will skip a section of stops; and the 4, 6 and Q lines will run express at times, bypassing more stops. Oh, and the D will run on the N during midday hours tomorrow, skipping 12 Brooklyn stops. Only the M line will be spared. Yeah, the M.
New York City Transit spokesman Charles Seaton explains, "At this time of year we're performing work along the outdoor lines that cannot be done during harsh weather. It doesn't happen every weekend, but there are times when you'll see this much construction activity along the lines." The Post breaks the news to commuters basically to get a rise out of them; one Basyide resident vows, "I'll take my car this weekend—I'm not going to deal with it." Others without alternative modes of transportation will just have to take it.
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The MTA is a f'ing mess constantly. 2.5hrs to get home last night, because of an emergency brake??? SERIOUSLY???
NJ here we come!!!
Damn, and this is OHNY weekend.
Open House New York is a good idea horribly executed. Every year venues end up being closed at the last minute. The organizers are slow to update the website to closings or distribute updated information at the sites that are open. And too many venues are limited to tiny groups and/or require a reservation. I stopped wasting my time years ago.
Basically what we have now is "premium" service (ie. normal service as shown on maps) during the week and lower-tier service (in which getting a cab is more reliable) on weekends.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Wow, this is what they call premium service??
Relatively. The MTA has made it premium service by refusing to provide close to normal service on weekends. Even in the best conditions, with minimal repair work, the MTA treats express service like the crown jewels and refuses to provide it on many lines.
www.forgotten-ny.com
That's the price you pay for having 24/7 service unlike other big cities where it shuts off at late hours.
i agree 100% on the premium service comment. i can count on one hand the number of times in the last year that the A has run express on the weekends.
Coney Island bound D has been running on the N in Brooklyn during weekends for a while now. It was reversed the last couple of years (Manhattan bound) and part of this year too, which was even more brutal.
This post doesn't make much sense. You say 18 out of 20 lines that operate on weekends will have serious delays. But only the M is spared? What's the other one?
Also, you list the B as being affected, but the B is a weekday only train...
Finally! A perk to being one of the few people who actually rely on the M train for transportation.
The M runs only as a shuttle between Met. and Myrtle Avenues on weekends. The 3 is the other unaffected line.
www.forgotten-ny.com
while this may be something new for some lines, it has been like this on the A line for years. years!!
True words. When I rode the 4, 5, 6 to middle school, I swore it was the worst line. When I rode the A, C, E to high school I realized how wrong I was. Those lines have delays and breakdowns all the damn time. I would be significantly late once a week thanks to the shitty service on the C and E.
Can someone explain this to me? Why do construction on all of these lines over the weekend rather than after midnight on the weekdays?
Last Saturday I waited for the V train at W 4th for over half an hour - and it was only 8pm. No signs, no announcements. I waited for the same train on a Wednesday night at midnight and it ran every 15 minutes. What gives besides the MTA being functionally retarded?
Urgh, I meant to say F. V train is weekdays only.
because there are only 4 hours to work at night, and two of those are used to set up and take down flaggers.
And the other 2 hours for TWU coffee break
Service in Queens sucks every weekend... The "construction" work I see consists of at least 25 men wearing hard hats and orange vests doing nothing... The MTA sucks ass
In the end, it's gotta be done.
I'd rather deal with it on weekends than weekdays.
Just plan ahead.
*shrug*
You can bet that the Bloomberg NYPD will be out in force handing out bogus revenue-generating tickets to anyone that tries to drive instead.
The MTA's a perfect example of why government can't run anything; that, and have you ever set foot in a NY public library? (nice 10-year old web browsing stations).
"have you ever set foot in a NY public library? (nice 10-year old web browsing stations)."
Where do you go for 10-year old stations? The library I go to has the HUAC.
Can I take this opportunity to say that the MTA's website redesign is teh suck?
I used to be able to go to www.mta.info, click on "Service Advisories / NYC Transit", and click another link to get a summary of the weekend service changes for all subway lines. Now I have to click on a specific subway line using radio buttons to see the changes for only that line. Come on, MTA. At least offer me the opportunity to select several subway lines at once with checkboxes. They have one option that says "All routes including buses", but I don't want to have to scroll through the bus routes too!
They print out one of these summaries every weekend and post it at the subway stations, why can't they offer the same document for viewing online? Idiotic.
Yah, I agree. Like how hard is it to just tell us the lines that are affected, so we can plan accordingly. They make it like some exercise from the National Treasure film series, just to find out which lines aren't running.
I'm pretty sure none of the Queens Blvd services run express on the weekend (E,F,R and V), but, I've never been able to find out where that's stated, since the actual time tables say that the E and F run express even on weekends (local only late nights).
It's time for the MTA to shut down overnight service. Wouldn't the cost measure and being able to do more is better than running the system 24/7? It's not like the trains even run at night. 40+ minute headways - if that.