The roving band of FASTRACK services outages will hit the BMT Nassau Street line tonight as the J train will not operate south of Essex/Delancey Sts. Beginning each night through Friday at 10 p.m. and continuing through 5 a.m., J trains will not stop at Broad Street, Fulton Street, Chambers Street, Canal Street or the Bowery, and Transit urging riders to seek some nearby, if imperfect, alternate routes.
Here’s how Transit bills this one:
- 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.
- 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.
That the J has such low overnight ridership through Lower Manhattan means fewer New Yorkers will be inconvenienced by this change, but parallel service requires a pair of extra transfers for those trying to reach South Williamsburg and beyond. Meanwhile, it’s doubtful that the real scourge of the Nassau St. line — the decrepit Chambers St. stop — will see much, if any, improvement as FASTRACK focuses more on track infrastructure rather than stations that require top-to-bottom rehabs.
The next FASTRACK treatment comes to the Concourse line between 161st Street-Yankee Stadium and 205th Street next week.
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Ben, the poster says “This change affects one or more ADA-accessible stations”. But there are no ADA-accessible stations on the BMT Nassau Street line. Do they just copy and paste these infoboxes onto the maps?
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers Street is ADA compliant. It’s right there on the map he posted.
So is Canal Street, but in both of these stations, the elevators only reach the IRT platforms.
See this map for an idea of what I mean.
You (kind of, a tiny bit, just a teeny weeny bit) have a point, so congratulations to you, maybe. Ultimately though, while the J platforms at these complexes aren’t ADA accessible, their connections to the Lex Av IRT are, in some cases. I would imagine that the MTA would want to include this message in the interests of being safe rather than sorry. But, really, we all want to know: why are you so nitpicky?
Do a little research before getting up in “somebody’s” grill, Mr. Nobody.
Actually, Someone kind of does have a point. You’d need to take the B39 from Marcy Avenue and transfer to the M9 at City Hall, if you were disabled. Then, there’s the matter of transferring (or walking, or rolling) to those other stations on the Lexington Avenue Line. That makes it at least a two-fare ride.
You just defended your own comment by using a separate commenter handle. Don’t do that again.
Um, no; this is a shared email.
I’ll use my personal email instead of shared email from now on.
Surely, this will be the absolutely least painful out of all Fastracks done, and all the Fastracks that will ever be done.
I wish these maps would better resemble night service. The M isn’t running at this time, so it really doesn’t serve much point, but to confuse passengers.
Some of the trains on the map, won’t even be running during FASTRACk.
Agreed. I had to email the press office for clarification concerning the M train. They told me the M will help until around 11:15 as it usually does. Not at all helpful then to add it to the map.
Feels like the Rockaway line has been on FastTrack for quite some time… 🙂
You’re telling me; I hear half the line’s been Fastracked for the past 50 years! 😀
Actually, I hear that it’s been Fastracked since 1956! 😉
Let’s just be happy the MTA didn’t do a Fastrack near Yankee Stadium during a week they had home games.
Oh yeah… that would have pissed off thousands.
It depends on which day they do it. Mondays and Thursdays are often off days. You can have a FASTRACK scheduled for those nights, especially if its early in the season when there are no rain out days to worry about.
This would have been a much bigger PITA a year ago, before uptown Bleecker on the 4/6 opened. Which is probably why the MTA waited until now to do Nassau (though an M or an overnight J at least to W. Fourth would have ever further lowered the PITA factor for Nassau St. riders).
It’s just pure luck that Fastrack was moved to the auxiliary lines just after the Bleecker Street connection opened.
It’s still a PITA for accessible riders.
It’s a pity that they aren’t taking this opportunity to do much to improve the station environment. I was very disappointed when Fastrack on the BMT line didn’t do any basic cleaning at Lexington/60th St.
Well, we’ve only had one BMT Broadway Fastrack; give it some time; I’m sure they’ll get it on the second round.
To be fair, the Bowery station is pretty decrepit too.
Why not offer a J train terminating at Broadway-Lafayette to offer direct transfer to F as well making the transfer to Lower Manhattan-bound 6 train a two-seat ride rather than three for those coming off the J? I can’t imagine there’s too much difficulty with F train spacing at night.
Is Broadway-Laf not equipped to work as a terminus?
Actually, it’s not. Broadway-Lafayette station does not have tail tracks, and the next tail tracks northbound are not until 59th Street and Queens Plaza. (There are connections between the tracks at 34th Street, though.)
They could extend the M overnight, though. I don’t see a problem in that.
There is also a diamond crossover at West 4 St that the J could use to turn around; doing so would be cheaper than running the M and wouldn’t require any additional crew hours or trainsets.
But then that requires the B/D trains to cross over with the J at West 4th. All the at-grade switching would cause delays.