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Fastrack Comes To The J

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on March 28th, 2013 at 11:31 pm

This upcoming week, FASTRACK will be making its debut on the J Train in the Lower East Side. Here are the complete details:

On Monday, April 1, MTA New York City Transit brings FASTRACK to the Lower East Side of Manhattan on the J Line. J trains will operate between Jamaica Center and Delancey Street-Essex Street, the last stop. There will be no J service at Broad Street, Fulton Street, Chambers Street, Canal Street and Bowery stations from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., for four consecutive weeknights from Monday, April 1 to early Friday morning, April 5. Customers should take the 4, 6 or A trains at nearby stations instead.

Travel alternatives:

• F and 4, 6 trains provide connecting service between J trains at Delancey Street-Essex Street and Lower Manhattan

• Transfer between F and J trains at Delancey Street-Essex Street

• Transfer between F and 4 or 6 trains at Bleecker Street-Broadway/Lafayette Street.

Customers should also consider the A or E to and from Lower Manhattan.

• A trains at Fulton Street connect with J trains at Broadway Junction

• E trains at World Trade Center connect with J trains at Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue.

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Service Diversions 03-15-13

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on March 15th, 2013 at 7:46 pm

I have just updated the Service Diversions with the latest planned work for this weekend, next week & beyond in some cases.

Some important reminders which include clicking here for information on extra Metro-North Service being provided for tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan.

Also staring on Monday, FASTRACK will be in Queens which will alter service on the E Train, F Train, M Train & R Train so click here for complete information.

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Have a safe & wonderful St. Patrick’s Day weekend & remember to party responsibly!

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Extra MetroNorth Trains For St.Patrick’s Day

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on March 15th, 2013 at 7:37 pm

The MTA Metro-North Railroad will be providing 17 extra trains for the St. Patrick’s Day parade tomorrow. Here are the complete details:

This year Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is on a weekend, Saturday, March 16th, and to accommodate larger-than-usual crowds, Metro-North will be operating 17 extra inbound trains in addition to the regular Saturday schedule.

Metro-North is a popular way to get to the parade, which begins at 11 a.m. at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, just two blocks from Grand Central Terminal.

Please note: On Saturday, March 16th, alcohol will not be allowed all day on trains, platforms and at stations. MTA Police will enforce this restriction.

And after the celebration, there will be additional outbound trains on all three lines, Hudson, Harlem and New Haven.

There also will be extra cars on a select number of regularly scheduled inbound and outbound trains to ensure everyone gets to “go green” on time.

Customers are strongly urged to buy round-trip rail tickets before boarding at ticket machines and ticket offices. The costs for tickets purchased on board trains are significantly higher.

And at Poughkeepsie, New Hamburg, Beacon and New Haven where parade ridership is especially high, tickets will be collected prior to boarding. Customers MUST buy a round-trip ticket in advance at ticket machines and ticket offices. Customers will not be allowed on platforms without a ticket.

The following extra inbound trains will operate:

Hudson Line:

A 7:34 AM from Poughkeepsie, stopping at Beacon and Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 9:03 AM.

A 7:35 AM will originate at New Hamburg and make a stop at Beacon and Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 8:55 AM.

A 7:40 AM from Poughkeepsie will run express after Croton-Harmon, making its next stop at Harlem-125th Street and arriving GCT at 9:21 AM.

An extra express train will depart Croton-Harmon at 8:39 AM, making stops at Ossining, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Yonkers, Marble Hill, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 9:34 AM.

An 8:54 AM from Croton-Harmon will make stops at Ossining, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Yonkers, Marble Hill, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 9:49 AM.

An 8:30 AM from Poughkeepsie will make stops at New Hamburg, Beacon, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:00 AM.

A 9:28 AM from Croton-Harmon will make stops at Tarrytown, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:15 AM.

A 12:40 PM from Poughkeepsie will run express after Croton-Harmon, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 2:21 PM.

An extra express train will depart Croton-Harmon at 1:38 PM, stopping at Ossining, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Yonkers, Marble Hill, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 2:33 PM.

Harlem Line:

An 8:06 AM from Southeast will make stops at Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, Pleasantville, North White Plains, and White Plains, then express to Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 9:28 AM.

An 8:35 AM from Southeast, stopping at Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, North White Plains, and White Plains, then express to Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 9:54 AM.

A 9:06 AM from Southeast, stopping at Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, Pleasantville, North White Plains, and White Plains, then express to Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:28 AM.

A 9:30 AM from Southeast, stopping at Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, Pleasantville, North White Plains, and White Plains, then express to Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:54 AM.

A 10:06 AM from Southeast, stopping at Brewster, Goldens Bridge, Katonah, Mount Kisco, Chappaqua, Pleasantville, North White Plains, and White Plains, then express to Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 11:28 AM.

New Haven Line:

An 8:46 AM from New Haven, stopping at Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield Metro, Fairfield, Westport, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:22 AM.

A 9:21 AM from New Haven, stopping at Milford, Bridgeport, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 10:54 AM.

A 9:48 AM from New Haven, stopping at Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield Metro, Fairfield, Westport, Harlem-125th Street, arriving GCT at 11:24 AM.

The following outbound extra trains will operate:

Hudson Line:

A 4:16 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, Croton-Harmon, Cortlandt, Peekskill, Garrison, Cold Spring, Beacon, New Hamburg, arriving Poughkeepsie at 5:59 PM.

A 5:16 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, Croton-Harmon, Cortlandt, Peekskill, Garrison, Cold Spring, Beacon, New Hamburg, arriving Poughkeepsie at 6:59 PM.

Harlem Line:

A 3:23 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, White Plains, North White Plains, Valhalla, Hawthorne, Pleasantville, Chappaqua, Mt. Kisco, Bedford Hills, Katonah, Goldens Bridge, Purdy’s, Croton Falls, Brewster, arriving Southeast at 4:53 PM.

A 5:37 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, Chappaqua, Mt. Kisco, Bedford Hills, Katonah, Goldens Bridge, Purdy’s, Croton Falls, Brewster, arriving Southeast at 7:03 PM.

New Haven Line:

A 3:55 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, South Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Fairfield Metro, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, arriving New Haven at 5:33 PM.

A 4:57 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, Westport, Fairfield, Fairfield Metro, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, arriving New Haven at 6:34 PM.

A 5:57 PM from GCT, stopping at Harlem-125th Street, Westport, Fairfield, Fairfield Metro, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, arriving New Haven at 7:34 PM.

On the Port Jervis Line, in addition to the regular Saturday schedule, there will be one extra train in each direction: An 8:15 AM departure from Port Jervis making all stops to Suffern, then Secaucus Junction and Hoboken, arriving Penn Station-NY at 10:37 AM; and a 5:20 PM departure from Hoboken/5:14 PM from Penn Station; stops at Secaucus Junction, Suffern, and all stops to Port Jervis.

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FASTRACK Coming To Queens

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on March 15th, 2013 at 7:26 pm

FASTRACK is on its way to Queens as the construction program will knock out service on the E Train, F Train, M Train & R Train starting this Monday. Here are the details via press release:

On Monday, March 18, MTA New York City Transit brings FASTRACK to Queens on the E F M R Line. There will be no service on the E between Roosevelt Avenue and World Trade Center and no service on the F between Roosevelt Avenue and 21st Street-Queensbridge from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., for four consecutive weeknights from Monday, March 18 to early Friday morning, March 22. Customers may take the 7 N or free shuttle buses as alternatives. Also, customers coming from Manhattan who normally ride the E or M to Court Square can instead take the 7.

Trains will operate as follows:

• E in Queens only between Jamaica Center and 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue

• F in two sections:
o Between 179th Street and Roosevelt Avenue and
o Between Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue and 21st Street-Queensbridge.

• M service ends early each night and the M shuttle operates between Metropolitan and Myrtle Avenues all night.

• R service ends early each night and the R shuttle operates in Brooklyn between 95th Street and 36th Street all night.

As alternatives customers may:

• Take the 7 between Manhattan and 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue or Queensboro Plaza

• Take the N between Manhattan and Queensboro Plaza

• In Manhattan, transfer at 5th Avenue/42nd Street-Bryant Park 7 F, Times Square-42nd Street/42nd Street-Port Authority 7 A, and 34th Street-Herald Square F N

• In Manhattan along 8th Avenue, take the A local instead of the E

• Take free shuttle buses running LOCAL between Queensboro Plaza and 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue making station stops at Queens Plaza, 36th Street, Steinway Street, 46th Street, Northern Blvd and 65th Street

• In Queens, transfer between shuttle buses and trains at 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue 7 E F or Queensboro Plaza 7 N

FASTRACK was introduced in January 2012, devoting four straight weeknights to perform maintenance work in tunnels, stations and on tracks, completely suspending service within a given line segment for a seven-hour period between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. This gives free access to the system, allowing an army of maintenance workers to perform dozens of tasks without the concern of having to “clear up” to allow trains to pass.

The new FASTRACK corridors for 2013 include: the Broadway N Q R south of Queensboro Plaza to Court Street; the A line between 168th Street and 207th Street in Upper Manhattan, the D Concourse Line between 161st and 205th Street; and the Lexington Avenue 4 5 6 local and express lines between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street.

FASTRACK projects are also scheduled for the Sixth/Eighth Avenue Lines (A B C D) between 59th Street-Columbus Circle and 168th Street-Broadway and 161st Street; Nassau Street-Broad Street-Essex Street on the J; the Fourth Avenue line (D N R) between 36th Street and 95th Street in Brooklyn and the 2 along Nostrand Avenue between Franklin and Flatbush Avenues.

These FASTRACK efforts have been designed around the careful determination that there is adequate alternate means of transportation, including enhanced services along some bus lines during work periods. Alternative transportation options will be detailed in announcements and posters on trains, in stations and on selected buses; brochures will be available in both English and Spanish. Information on this FASTRACK is available on the web at http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/fastrack_EFMR.htm.

Our next FASTRACK overnight closure will be 4 5 6 local service between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street from March 25-29, 2013. (Trains will run express between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street in both directions.)

Riders should check out the Service Diversions for complete information including alternate ways to travel & key transfer stations.

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MTA Announces Bus Time Roll Out Plan

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on March 15th, 2013 at 7:04 pm

Bus Time has been a huge hit for riders since it initially debuted on 2 Manhattan bus lines & eventually leading to 2 in Brooklyn & all of Staten Island & most recently the Bronx. The agency has announced a roll out plan which will bring it to the rest of the city. Here is more on that:

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced the timetable and sequence in which it will expand MTA Bus Time™, the agency’s online real-time bus tracking service. All bus routes in Manhattan will receive Bus Time this year, followed by Brooklyn, and then Queens, which will be completed by April 2014.

“Bus Time has proven extremely popular among bus riders on Staten Island and the Bronx – and I can tell you that because customers have come to me on buses in the Bronx and said we did a really great job on Bus Time,” said Fernando Ferrer, MTA Acting Chairman. “They find it useful and easy to access, and I think that’s a tremendous endorsement of what we have been doing. Bus Time is so helpful to our customers that we have scheduled an extremely aggressive timetable to introduce it to three other boroughs.”

Bus Time takes the wondering and uncertainty out of waiting for the bus. Through text messaging, web, or apps, Bus Time allows customers to learn how far away the next bus is from a given stop.

To use Bus Time, customers simply send a text message from any cell phone with SMS or MMS text messaging to 511123, visit bustime.mta.info, or use a variety of apps created by third party tech developers using Bus Time data.

For a short MTA video explaining how Bus Time works, click this YouTube link: http://youtu.be/eIBcn3tCLMg

Bus Time launched on Staten Island in January 11, 2012, and was expanded to the Bronx in early November 2012. In addition to all bus routes serving those boroughs, it is also available on the B61, B63, M34, M34A, M100 and Q50.

The MTA operates the largest bus fleet of any public transportation provider in North America: 5,700 buses operate out of 28 depots on 300 routes serving 2.6 million customers per day.

Hopefully riders throughout the city will take advantage of this when it becomes available systemwide. While it is not a cure all for all that is wrong with buses in the city, it does help you make decisions with actual useful information.

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