MTA Announces Additional Subway Service
train riders continue to talk about the impending shutdown that will wreck havoc on the commutes of many who depend on the line. However as we know, the work is critical & needs to be done to hopefully prevent issues in the future from major storms.
Yesterday afternoon, MTA NYC Transit announced new details of additional subway service that will start when the shutdown begins including the addition of over 1000 roundtrips. Here are more details via the press release sent to me by the MTA:
MTA New York City Transit today announced new details about the additional subway service that will run during the 15-month-long tunnel reconstruction project, including more than 1,000 additional roundtrips per week across seven lines to accommodate riders traveling between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
“The tunnel reconstruction project will be the most impactful Superstorm Sandy-repair work we will undertake and as such, we must ensure we have viable, reliable alternatives particularly on the subways where we can accommodate the largest number of riders,” said NYCT President Andy Byford. “We will be adding more than a thousand roundtrips each week and pushing our resources to capacity , which is also why you’re seeing so much preventative maintenance and repair work on all these lines already – we are making these lines as reliable as possible for these new service levels starting in 2019.”
NYC Transit expects to accommodate riders through five of its 11 primary East River crossings, which will result in service additions on subway lines that use those tunnels or bridges as well as the G line, which connects Brooklyn riders to many cross-river lines. Altogether, NYC Transit will add 198 roundtrips each weekday and 94 weekend roundtrips on seven subway lines, pushing fleet, signal and track capacity to existing limits where feasible. This number includes the increased service on the 7 line which was previously announced in September 2018. In order to help ensure these new levels of service are as reliable as possible, including service which will run throughout all of Brooklyn during the reconstruction project, extensive preventative maintenance and repair work is happening on all of these lines this year, mostly during nights and weekends when ridership is at its lowest.
The alternate subway service changes during the tunnel reconstruction project will be implemented in April 2019, along with the enhanced bus and ferry service as developed in close collaboration with NYCDOT and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The subway service changes announced today are as follows:
Weekdays
Subway Line Changes 66 additional roundtrips; Some peak trips extend to 18 Av;
Some peak trips run between Court Sq-23 St and Bedford-Nostrand Avs
62 additional roundtrips; Increased peak-hour service;
Overnight service extends to 96 St-2 Av
16 additional roundtrips; Trains make all stops between Bway Junction and Marcy Av;
Peak-hour skip-stop service between Jamaica Center and Bway Junction only
26 additional roundtrips 12 additional roundtrips 2 additional roundtrips A maximum of 3 fewer roundtrips to accommodate more peak-hour service between Queens and Manhattan; Queens Blvd line customers will see a net increase in train frequency;
Brooklyn customers traveling to Manhattan during AM peak hours and Manhattan customers traveling to Brooklyn during PM peak hours will not be affected
14 additional roundtrips 88 fewer roundtrips; Service will run at all Brooklyn stations but not in Manhattan
Weekends
Subway Line Changes 26 additional Saturday roundtrips; 31 additional Sunday roundtrips;
Weekend service extends to 96 St-2 Av
16 additional Saturday roundtrips; 8 additional Sunday roundtrips
2 additional Saturday roundtrips; 6 additional Sunday roundtrips
1 additional Saturday roundtrip; 2 additional Sunday roundtrips
1 additional Saturday roundtrip; 1 additional Sunday roundtrip
90 fewer Saturday roundtrips; 53 fewer Sunday roundtrips;
Service will run at all Brooklyn stations but not in Manhattan
ABOUT THE L TUNNEL RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT
The
NYC Transit began public outreach on the
The result of the extensive public outreach was a comprehensive package of temporary service alternatives that include:
- Additional subway service on seven lines
- Five new high-frequency Select Bus Service routes
- A new peak-hour limited-stop bus route between Canarsie and Crown Heights
- Increased service on existing bus routes that link
- A new ferry service between Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Stuyvesant Cove at East 20th Street and Avenue C in Manhattan
NYC Transit continues to solicit feedback and plans to make adjustments to the alternate service plans if needed.
In addition to rebuilding the
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