Earlier this week, I reported on an amNew York report concerning the renovations at 96th St. on the West Side IRT. Accoridng to that report, the MTA cut $26 million from the project, and as a result, the station would supposedly be less handicapped accessible.
Not so, said New York City Transit. The current station, said Paul Fleuranges, spokesman for Transit, is not accessible at all; the new one will still be in complete compliance with the ADA. “this rehabilitated 96th Street station will be fully ADA accessible,” he said, via e-mail, “and in fact it will be far easier to access the platforms. I remind you that the current station is not ADA accessible, so the improvements we are making will increase accessibility by 100%.”
Fleuranges also said that a more streamlined design rendered the third elevator superfluous. The stationhouse will still be state-of-the-art, but it will also be more cost-efficient. In these days of uncertain financial times, it’s good to hear the MTA is keeping an eye on the bottom line.
And now the service advisories:
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, downtown 1 trains skip 96th Street due to station rehab work at 96th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, downtown 2 and 3 trains skip 96th Street, then run local from 86th Street to Chambers Street due to station rehab work and roadbed replacement at 50th Street. Note: Overnight, downtown 3 trains skip 96th Street, then run local from 86th Street to 42nd Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, uptown 2 and 3 trains run local from 42nd Street-Times Square to 96th Street due to roadbed replacement at 50th Street.
From 4 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday May 3, 3 trains run in two sections due to switch repairs and station painting at Sutter Avenue, Saratoga Avenue, Rockaway Avenue and Junius Street:
- Between 148th Street and Utica Avenue and
- Between Utica and New Lots Avenue (every 20 minutes)
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, free shuttle buses replace 5 trains between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street due to signal work at East 180th Street and retaining wall work between Pelham Parkway and Baychester Avenue.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Bronx-bound 6 trains run express from 3rd Avenue to Hunts Point Avenue due to platform edge rehabilitation at Cypress Avenue, East 143rd Street, East 149th Street, and Longwood Avenue stations and track panel installation between Morrison-Soundview Aves. and St. Lawrence Avenue. Also, the last stop for some Bronx-bound 6 trains is 3rd Avenue
From 4 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 3, Manhattan-bound 7 trains skip 111th, 103rd, 90th, and 82nd Streets due to track panel installation at 90th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2, to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, downtown A trains run local from 168th Street to Jay Street due to station rehab work at Jay Street. Note: C trains are not running at this time.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, uptown A trains run local from Jay Street to Canal Street, then express to 59th Street, then trains resume local service to 168th Street due to the Lawrence St. station rehab and station rehab work at 59th Street. Note: C trains are not running during this time.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, free shuttle buses replace A trains between 168th Street and 207th Street due to tunnel structure and lighting work. Customers may transfer between the Broadway or Ft. Washington Avenue shuttle buses and the A train at 168th Street.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, free shuttle buses and shuttle trains replace A trains between Howard Beach-JFKAirport and the Rockaways due to track panel installation on the South Channel Bridge.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2, to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, there are no C trains running. A trains replace the C between 168th and Jay Street and F trains replace the C between Jay Street and Euclid Avenue. This is due to the Jay Street station rehabilitation and construction of the underground connector to Lawrence Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Coney Island-bound D trains run on the N line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to retaining wall work at the 38th Street Yard.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, free shuttle buses replace D trains between 205th Street and Bedford Park Blvd. due to a track chip-out at Bedford Park Blvd. station.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Manhattan-bound E and F trains run local from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue due to chip-out at Grand Avenue.
From 12:30 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Jamaica-bound EF trains run local from Roosevelt Avenue to Forest Hills-71st Avenue due to a track chip-out at Grand Avenue.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Jamaica-bound F trains run on the A line from Jay Street to West 4th Street due to the construction of the underground tunnel connector between Broadway-Lafayette and Bleecker Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, F trains run between 179th Street and Euclid Avenue C station. G trains replace the F between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to the Jay Street station rehabilitation and construction of the underground connector to Lawrence Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, there are no G trains between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Court Square. Customers should take the E or R instead.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, N trains run local between 59th Street-4th Avenue and Pacific Street due to subway tunnel rehabilitation.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Brooklyn-bound N and R trains are rerouted over the Manhattan Bridge from Canal Street and DeKalb Avenue due to electrical work in the Montague Tunnel. Customers may take the 4 at nearby stations.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Manhattan-bound Q trains skip Newkirk Avenue due to station rehab work.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 2 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, Manhattan-bound Q trains run express from Kings Highway to Prospect Park due to Brighton Line station rehabilitation.
From 12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, May 4, R trains are extended to 179th Street F station due to a track chip-out at Grand Avenue.
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Ok, maybe I’m being pedantic, but that doesn’t “increase accessibility by 100%” it makes it infinitely more accessible, which is much more impressive sounding.
Increasing accessibility by 100% just means it’s going to be fully accessible. It’s not right now, so increasing it by 100% would mean that it’s at 0% accessibility right now…which is true.
I suppose it is kind of poorly-worded.
What I got from the original post is that it would be less accessible than planned, which is exactly true. It’s like promising better access to the west side and then omitting the most useful station: it’s better than “nothing”, but it’s not as good as promised.
I wish folks (You included) would stop using the IRT / BMT terminology… it’s VERY confusing if you don’t know what it means. It’s not referenced ANYWHERE on maps or guides… ONLY by “old timers” that still use the terms.
Yeah, I get it… it’s easy to say IRT and mean a whole group… but, guess what, A LOT of people don’t know what it means!!!
Oh, AND they shouldn’t have to learn. These designations don’t exists. It’s just confusing to many many people.
There’s only one subway stop at 96th St. and Broadway. It’s not that hard to figure out then what I mean by the West Side IRT.
I’d actually say that most people from NYC who ride the subway have a general sense of what the IRT/BMT/IND indicate. It’s used on the trains; it’s used in talking about them. At no time are my posts ever so obtuse that you wouldn’t be able to figure out to which I refer.
I’d have to disagree that many people are familiar with those terms any more. I hear them from conductors once in a while but nowhere else. I’ve lived here over 10 years and I’ve never heard a person (other than a conductor, or a transit enthusiast) use them. Most people would say “the 1/2/3” or “the Broadway line”. I’ve even heard “the Red line”…
Red line? The horror.
I’m with Ben here, you can either learn them or figure out what we’re talking about without knowing the terms.
And even if the TA doesn’t use those terms on the numbered and lettered routes, they still use the old names of the lines (e.g. “6 AV LCL/CULVER LCL”) which the printed subway map (not the one on the website) even includes. They’re still very much in use among enthusiasts and professionals and even on a lot of signage (emergency exit maps, for one).
You’ve lived here ten years. Great. I’m sure you’ve missed a lot of other finer details, too. Everyone does. It’s an old, complicated city. Learn the letters and be happy about it instead of telling us to stop.
Oh, I don’t care. It doesn’t bother me at all–I love the rich history of NYC. I must be a New Yorker now because when Benjamin wrote “West Side IRT” I didn’t even bat an eyelash. BUT at the same time, I am an advocate for making the system easier to use, and as an example I rather like “Red Line” even though I know it’s extremely gauche and touristy.
There’s something decidedly un-New York about calling the subway lines by their colors. They do that in Boston and DC, but here, we have numbers and letters. Maybe it’s just one of those arrogant New York things.
No one in London, for example, ever calls the Piccadilly Line “Dark Blue.”
No, because in London the lines have easy-to-remember, one-word names already.
yeah if you’re going to live in new amsterdam you better learn the old names for the subway lines. jeez, the nerve of some people.