With the Official End of Summer in the rear view mirror, my weekly Friday afternoon recaps of the MTA’s weekend service alerts return. But first, some housekeeping.
Starting this week, this site has a new domain name attached to it. Since the site is ostensibly called Second Ave. Sagas, I decided it was time to acquire the domain name SecondAveSagas.com. It was simply too confusing with “Avenue” spelled out in the URL but not the name of the site.
So from now on, when you point your browser toward www.secondavesagas.com, you’ll land here. Good stuff.
With that out of the way, let’s look at the weekend service advisories. All in all, it’s not a terrible weekend for subway travel. For this weekend – and, sadly, this weekend only – 2 and 3 trains are running express up the West Side. But with the Yankees out of town, Bronx-bound 4 trains are running express from 125th St. to Burnside Ave., stopping only at 149th St.-Grand Concourse.
Similarly, D trains are skipping 167th, 161st, and 155th Streets as well. Road trips are a good time for track work in the Bronx.
The biggest news comes to us courtesy of the BMT Broadway lines. All trains Brooklyn-bound trains are bypassing Lower Manhattan and running over the Manhattan Bridge. For service to those stations, take a Manhattan-bound train at DeKalb or find one of many alternate trains that service Lower Manhattan. On a side note, the MTA no longer says the Cortlandt Street station is closed until July of 2007. That station is, obviously, closed indefinitely.
The full weekend service alerts can be found here and after the jump.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, 3 train service is replaced by M7, M102 and shuttle buses between 135th Street and 148th Street due to switch renewal south of 148th Street-Lenox Avenue.
At all times through mid-November, Manhattan-bound 4 trains skip Mosholu Parkway due to station rehabilitation.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to Monday, September 10, Bronx-bound 4 trains run express from 125th Street to Burnside Avenue due to track chip-out north of 149th Street-Grand Concourse.
From 4 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday, September 9, Bronx-bound 6 trains run express from Hunts Point Avenue to Parkchester due to track panel installation at Whitlock Avenue. (The last stop for some Bronx-bound 6 trains will be 3rd Avenue.)
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to Monday, September 10, 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, September 8 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, Manhattan-bound D trains skip 167th, 161st, and 155th Street due to tunnel work north of 155th Street.
From 12:30 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 4:30 a.m. Monday, September 10, (overnight only), Manhattan-bound E trains run express from Roosevelt Avenue to Queens Plaza due to track chip-out south of Queens Plaza station.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, there are no E trains between West 4th Street and World Trade Center due to Chambers Street signal modernization.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, Jamaica-bound EF trains skip 75th Avenue due to ADA work at Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station.
From 8:30 p.m. Friday, September 7 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, (and until further notice), there is no G train service between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Court Square due to track chip-out south of Queens Plaza. Customers should take the E or R.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 10, Brooklyn-bound NR trains are rerouted over the Manhattan Bridge from Canal Street to DeKalb Avenue due to tunnel rehabilitation south of Prince Street station.
From 12:30 a.m. Saturday, September 8 to 4:30 a.m. Monday, September 10, there are no Q trains between 57th Street and 42nd Street due to a track chip-out south of Queens Plaza station. Customers may take the N or R instead.
From 5 a.m. to midnight Saturday, September 8 and Sunday, September 9, R trains skip 5th Avenue, Lexington Avenue, and Queens Plaza in both directions due to roadbed replacement/chip-out work south of Queens Plaza. For 5th Avenue and Lexington Avenue, customers should transfer to the N at 57th-7th Avenue. For Queens Plaza, customers should take the E.
The Cortlandt Street Station is closed until further notice while the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey continues to build on the WTC site.
2 comments
you forgot the 1 for 149th Street-Grand Concourse
Thanks, F Express. There’s definitely no stop at 49th St-Grand Concourse. I fixed it.