Aaron Naparstek over at Streets blog caught this photo — this fantastic photo — and posted about it on Thursday. It just seems to summarize the MTA.
The Authority has a nifty little way of designing their Public Hearing notices. The notices, which you can see here as a MTA, use vertical letters rotated 90 degrees to spell out “public hearing.” The rest of the poster is as a normal person would read it with text running horizontal. Well, some nameless intrepid MTA employee hung up this notice so that anyone could read “public hearing” but would have to risk neck injury to read the fine print.
How can we depend on the MTA to raise the fares if their workers can’t even hang up signs properly? We know they can’t run trains on the weekend, and on that note, may I present your weekend service advisories. Available here on the MTA’s site, they are reprinted below for your convenience.
Just a word of warning: Travel to and from Brooklyn on the IRT and BMT lines is terrible this weekend. Pay careful attention to those signs. The 2 and 3 aren’t running into Brooklyn; the 4 is running local along the 3 line to Bowling Green where you can switch to an uptown 2 running local on the West Side. It’s a real nightmare. The BMT, meanwhile, is avoiding the Manhattan Bridge like the plague even though the press releases makes nary a mention of this service change. I’ll do my best to incorporate service alerts that are inexplicably missing from the press release.
Here we go:
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, there are no 2 trains between Atlantic Avenue and Chambers Street due to station rehab work at Chambers Street and lighting installation in the Clark Street tunnel. Customers may take the 4 to nearby stations instead.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, uptown 5 replaces the 2 from Chambers Street to 149th Street-Grand Concourse and uptown 2 trains replace the 5 from Bowling Green to 149th Street-Grand concourse. This is due to station rehab work at Chambers Street and lighting installation in the Clark Street tunnel.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, there are no 3 trains running due to station rehab work at Chambers Street and lighting installation in the Clark Street tunnel. Customers may take the downtown 2 or uptown 5 instead. 3 trains are replaced by the 4 between Atlantic and New Lots Avenues and the M7, M102 and free shuttle buses between 148th and 135th Streets.
At all times until Monday, November 12, Manhattan-bound 4 trains skip Mosholu Parkway due to station rehabilitation.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, Bronx-bound 6 trains run express from 3rd Avenue to Hunts Point Avenue due to roadbed replacement at Brook Avenue.
From 12:01 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to Monday, October 15, Flushing-bound 7 trains 69th, 74th, 82nd, 90th, 103rd, and 111th Streets due to prep work for 74th Street interlocking.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, free shuttle buses and shuttle train service replace the A between Howard Beach-JFK Airport and the Rockaways due to track panel installation south of Howard Beach-JFK Airport station.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, downtown A and C trains skip 50th, 23rd, and Springs Streets due to Chambers Street signal modernization.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, Bronx-bound D trains run express from 145th Street to Tremont Avenue due to track and cable work between 145th Street and Bedford Park Boulevard stations.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, there is no E train service between West 4th Street and World Trade Center due to Chambers Street signal modernizations. Customers may take the A or C instead between the West 4th and Broadway-Nassau Street stations.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, Queens-bound E trains run on the V line from West 4th to 5th Avenue due to electrical and plumbing work at 50th Street.
From 8:30 p.m. Friday, October 12 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, there is no G train service between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Court Square due to installation of conduit along tracks between Union Turnpike and Roosevelt Avenue stations. Customers should take the E or R.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, G trains run in two sections:
– Between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues and
– Between Bedford-Nostrand Avenues and Hoyt-Schermerhorn
There are no G trains operating between Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Smith-9th Streets.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, free shuttle buses replace M trains between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue-Broadway.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, Manhattan-bound N trains run on the D line from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street (Brooklyn).
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, October 13 to 5 a.m. Monday, October 15, N trains run on the R line in both directions between DeKalb Avenue and Canal Street.