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Weekend work impacting 13 subway lines

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Benjamin Kabak

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You know the drill.


From 3:45 a.m. Saturday, February 23 to 9 p.m. Sunday, February 24, uptown 1 trains skip 225th Street, 231st Street and 238th Street due to track panel installation north of 231st Street.


From 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24, the last stop for some uptown 1 trains is 137th Street due to track panel installation north of 231st Street in the Bronx.


From 11:30 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, there are no 2 trains between 3rd Avenue-149th Street and 96th Street due to station work at 149th Street-Grand concourse, track maintenance at 96th Street and tunnel lighting in the Harlem River tube. Downtown 2 trains operate local between 96th Street and Times Square-42nd Street.

Free shuttle buses operate:

  • Non-stop – Between 96th Street and 3rd Avenue-149th Street
  • Local – Between 96th Street and 3rd Avenue-149th Street

During this time, 2 trains will operate in two sections:

  • Between 241st Street and 3rd Avenue-149th Street
  • Between 96th Street and Flatbush Avenue


From 11:30 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, 3 service is suspended due to station work at 149th Street-Grand Concourse, track maintenance at 96th Street and tunnel lighting in the Harlem River tube. 2 trains make all 3 station stops between 96th Street and Franklin Avenue. 4 trains make all 3 station stops between Franklin Avenue and New Lots Avenue. Free shuttle bus operates as a local between 96th Street and 148th Street.


From 11:30 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, 4 service is extended to New Lots Avenue and operates as a local in Brooklyn due to work on the 2, 3, 5 line.

(Overnights)
From 11:45 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 6:30 a.m. Saturday, February 23, from 11:45 p.m. Saturday, February 23 to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, February 24 and from 11:45 p.m. Sunday, February 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, downtown 4 trains run express from 125th Street to Grand Central-42nd Street due to track tie block work near 96th Street and 103rd Street.


From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24, there are no 5 trains between East 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse due to station work at 149th Street-Grand Concourse, track maintenance at 96th Street and tunnel lighting in the Harlem River tube.

Free shuttle bus operates across 149th Street between 3rd Avenue-149th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse. 5 train service operates in two sections:

  • Between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street
  • Between 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Bowling Green (every 20 minutes)

Note: 5 trains from Manhattan skip 138th Street-Grand Concourse, take the 4 instead.


From 11:45 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, downtown 6 trains run express from 125th Street to Grand Central-42nd Street due to track tie block work near 96th Street and 103rd Street.


From 11:45 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25 (and the next four weekends), there is no 7 train service between Times Square-42nd Street and Queensboro Plaza due to Flushing Line CBTC work. Customers may take the E, N, Q and S (42nd Street shuttle) and free shuttle buses as alternatives.

  • Use the E, N or Q* between Manhattan and Queens
  • Free shuttle buses operate between Vernon Blvd-Jackson Avenue and Queensboro Plaza
  • In Manhattan, the 42nd Street S Shuttle operates overnight

*Q service is extended to Ditmars Blvd. (See Q entry for hours of operation.)


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, February 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, Queens-bound A trains run local from Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts to Utica Avenue due to platform edge and tile work at Utica Avenue.

(Overnights)
From 11:15 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 6:30 a.m. Saturday, February 23, from 11:15 p.m. Saturday, February 23 to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, February 24 and from 11:15 p.m. Sunday, February 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, Manhattan-bound E trains run express from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue due to ADA work at Forest Hills-71st Avenue.


From 10:45 p.m. Friday, February 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, February 25, Queens-bound N trains run express from Canal Street to 34th Street-Herald Square due to electrical work at 14th Street-Union Square and 34th Street-Herald Square.


From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24, Queens-bound R trains run express from Canal Street to 34th Street-Herald Square due to electrical work at 14th Street-Union Square and 34th Street-Herald Square.


From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24, Manhattan-bound R trains run express from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue due to ADA work at Forest Hills-71st Avenue.


From 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, February 23 and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, February 24, Q trains are extended to Ditmars Blvd. in order to augment service between Manhattan and Queens.

(42nd Street Shuttle) (Overnights)
From 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m. Saturday, February 23, Sunday, February 24, Monday, February 25, and Monday, February 25, 42nd Street S shuttle operates overnight due to weekend work on the 7 line.

Comments

18 responses to “Weekend work impacting 13 subway lines”

  1. ymbvpoy

    Well, congrats MTA. The F and G trains aren’t running between Church Ave and Jay street today. Thanks for the heads up. It’s not like it’s raining out or anything today.

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    1. Benjamin Kabak

      Huh? Really? That’s not a planned service change.

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      1. ymbvpoy

        Yeah, I should have taken a picture of the sign, sorry. To the MTA’s credit, there were posted signs last night on the subway platform columns, but when I went on their web site this morning, there was no mention of it, so I thought maybe I had misread the notification.

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        1. Kai B

          The posters I saw yesterday evening were a cancellation notice for the express-only service from Church to Jay, which had been originally planned.

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          1. Someone

            Which means that trains are running normally.

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      2. Jerrold

        Ben, somewhat off-topic, but I’m putting this here for it to be seen.
        Do you know anything about the current plans for the Dey St. Passageway? I mean, are they waiting for 1 World Trade Center to be finished or for the Calatrava Center to be finished? (I assume that the former will happen long before the latter.)
        I don’t even know where to get info about this subject.
        Certainly not from the MTA website!

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        1. Berk32

          Until 1 WTC and/or the PATH station are done – there is no reason to open it.

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          1. Jerrold

            But WHY is there no reason to open it?
            It is a link between two existing stations, Fulton St. and Cortlandt St.
            They had expressed fears that it would become a homeless hangout. By that logic, they might as well close down the entire subway system, all the railroad stations, and all the public parks.

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            1. Someone

              Who’s “they”?

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            2. Berk32

              The tunnel wouldn’t be in fare control.

              It’s purpose isn’t to connect the Cortland St station to Fulton St – its to connect Fulton St to the WTC

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              1. D.R. Graham

                The tunnel is inside fare control. The original intent of the project was to connect via in system transfer the E and R trains from their respective stations to the Fulton Street complex. On the platform of the 4/5 southbound you see the white boards next to the Dey Street exit which will allow for passage to the R train.

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                1. Berk32

                  It won’t be in fare control when it’s completed.

                  Right now they’re using the small part of it under the R tracks for access to the southbound R platform access (since it has no open stairways to the street)

                  The R will connect to the E (and the A/C Chambers and 2/3 Park Pl) with a new/different connecting passage

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      3. Jerrold

        [Sorry, at first I put this post in the wrong place]

        Ben, somewhat off-topic, but I’m putting this here for it to be seen.
        Do you know anything about the current plans for the Dey St. Passageway? I mean, are they waiting for 1 World Trade Center to be finished or for the Calatrava Center to be finished? (I assume that the former will happen long before the latter.)
        I don’t even know where to get info about this subject.
        Certainly not from the MTA website!

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        1. Epson45

          2014

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          1. Jerrold

            Epson,I believe you of course, but because I am interested in this subject, could you please give me a link to whatever site has that information?
            I would like to read more about it.

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            1. Someone

              Actually it’s 2015.

              For years, Metropolitan Transportation Authority construction and planning schedules have pegged November 2012 as the time for the opening of a new underground connection between the Fulton Center subway complex at Broadway in lower Manhattan and the Cortlandt St. station on the eastern edge of the World Trade Center site…
              Yet transit officials now say they plan to keep the Dey St. Concourse padlocked — for several years. The official reason: Few riders will make use of the free transfer. The demand, officials say, will come when the new office towers being built at Ground Zero are completed and occupied, and the Port Authority finishes its permanent — and extravagant — PATH hub. That’s will be in 2015. Maybe. “The small number of people we believe would use the transfer . . . does not justify the expense of opening, maintaining and policing the passage,” MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg explained.
              Incredibly, the MTA says an analysis concluded that if the tunnel were to open as initially planned, just five people an hour would want to use the walkway and make a free transfer between the R train at Cortlandt. St. and the many lines running through Fulton Center. So, then, who will come? The homeless — at least that’s the MTA’s fear. The concern is that the brand-spanking-new concourse might become an encampment for the poor, unmoored souls you see huddled in doorways in the city or standing outside soup kitchens.

              So you see, Epson45 was incorrect.

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              1. Epson45

                No, Someone. you not correct. Look at the MTA website. They are reopen with Fulton Center around June 2014. The Dey St Passageway is done. page 181, http://www.mta.info/mta/news/b…..RANSIT.pdf

                Next month’s MTA board meeting will have an update on Fulton Center project.

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                1. Someone

                  That’s not what I said. The usage of the passageway would meet expectations by 2015. Which is when the passageway would open in its full length.

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