I’m in Minneapolis this weekend watching the Yanks take on the Twins. The skyways here fascinate me. It seems as though it’s possible to get from one end of the downtown area to the other without crossing streets or traversing sidewalks. I’ll have to try it out.
Anyway, I’m going to post the service advisories a bit earlier than usual this weekend. I’ll be back on Monday with a full slate of content. Travel safely.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, there is no 2 train service between 241st Street and East 180th Street due to signal and station rehab work at East 180th Street and track panel work north of Allerton Avenue. Free shuttle buses are available.
From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21, and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, uptown 4 trains run express from Brooklyn Bridge to 14th Street-Union Square due to track work along Lexington Avenue line.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, there are no 5 trains between East 180th and 149th Street-Grand Concourse due to signal and station rehab work at East 180th Street and track panel work north of Allerton Avenue. Shuttle trains operate between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street every 30 minutes. For service between East 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse, customers may take the 2 train instead.
From 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Saturday, August 20 and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, August 21, 5 trains run every 20 minutes between 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Bowling Green due to track work along the Lexington Avenue Line.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, uptown 6 trains run express from Brooklyn Bridge to 14th Street-Union Square due to track work along the Lexington Avenue line.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, uptown 6 trains skip Whitlock Avenue and Morrison Avenue-Soundview due to station rehabilitation at Elder Avenue and St. Lawrence Avenue stations. Note: At all times until October 2011, 6 trains skip Elder Avenue and St. Lawrence Avenue in both directions due to station rehabilitation.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, downtown A trains run local from 59th Street-Columbus Circle to West 4th Street, then are rerouted on the F line to Jay Street-MetroTech due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street-MetroTech and work at the Fulton Street Transit Center.
From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21, downtown C trains run on the F line from West 4th Street to Jay Street-MetroTech due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street-MetroTech and work at the Fulton Street Transit Center.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, Brooklyn-bound D trains run on the N line in Brooklyn from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to structural repair and station rehabilitation from 71st Street to Bay 50th Street and ADA work at Bay Parkway. Note: The D will bypass 20th Avenue in both directions at all times until 5 a.m. Monday, August 29 due to station rehabilitation. Customers should use the B1 bus or the free shuttle bus (available during the midnight hours).
At all times until Friday, October 28, the southbound D is bypassing 71st Street due to station rehabilitation. (This weekend’s work on the West End Line includes platform edge work at 71st Street, painting of canopy columns at 18th Avenue, column repairs on the northbound platform at 9th Avenue, installation of tactile warning strips at Ft. Hamilton Parkway, canopy roof work at 62nd Street and concrete work on column bases along the line structure.)
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, E trains run on the F line in both directions between 36th Street, Queens and West 4th Street in Manhattan due to track panel and conduit work between Queens Plaza and Court Square-23rd Street and switch renewal work north of Lexington Avenue.
From 11 p.m. Friday, August 19 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 22, there is no G train service between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts and Church Avenue due to track work north of Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. G trains operate in two sections:
- Between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avs and
- Between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Hoyt Schermerhorn Sts (every 20 minutes)
Note: A trains provide connecting service between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts and Jay Street-MetroTech.
From 4 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 10 p.m. Sunday, August 21, southbound N trains run express from Astoria Boulevard to Queensboro Plaza, skipping 30th Avenue, Broadway, 36th Avenue and 39th Avenue due to line structure overcoat painting.
From 10 p.m. Friday, August 19 to 5 a.m. Monday August 22, downtown Q trains run local from 34th Street-Herald Square to Canal Street due to platform edge rehabilitation at 34th Street.
From 6 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 6 p.m. Sunday, August 21, Coney Island-bound Q trains skip Avenue U and Neck Road due to overcoat painting of Brighton Line bridges.
From 6 a.m. Saturday, August 20 to 6 p.m. Sunday, August 21, there is no Coney Island-bound Q service at Avenue M due to completion work on southbound stairs and annex area. Free shuttle buses provide service to and from Kings Highway. Note: Manhattan-bound Q trains skip Avenue M and Avenue H until September 2011 due to station rehabilitation.
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Those Minneapolis “skyways” were a terrible idea and are partly responsible for the dull street life in that city. It’s such a silly 1960’s idea to encourage people to stay off the streets. I know it is cold up there but that doesn’t stop Chicago in the dead of winter from being vibrant and interesting.
Well it’s much colder in Minneapolis. It’s quite a bit farther north, but yes it’s a terrible idea. Even Des Moines pretty much stopped building theres. (Minneapolis keeps adding to it.) What’s really really weird is that all the basic things you need at street level — convenience stores, banks with ATMs, pharmacies — are nowhere to be found because they are all up in the skyways. Just try to find an ATM after dark when the skyways are closed. It’s impossible. It really is a horrible idea as many of the other good things that are going on there — bike share, pedestrian improvements, parks, pedicabs, lightrail — they have stayed with the skyway system which unfortunate.
Do they really have a statue of Mary Tyler Moore tossing her hat in the air there?
Yes they do & I saw it a few years ago.
The skyway network is a tourest atraction in it’s own right & needs to be sene to be believed.
The lightrail line runs from Target Field to the airport as well as the Mall of America. A new line is being constructed to connect Minneapolis to St. Paul.
St. Paul’s skyway system is different. It has some tunnels to take it under the Rice Park area. (By the St. Paul Central Library and to the Xcel Center and Ordway Theater).
Anyway, have fun exploring the Minneapolis Skyway system and enjoy your visit to Minnesota.
An interesting item in the Times “F.Y.I.” column about the West Fourth St. station:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08.....038;st=nyt
Interesting. They also failed to mention the entrance at 8th St. Took me awhile to find that one myself.
Also wish they would give in and just call the avenue 6th Avenue like everyone else. Even the MTA’s signage now uses that (although some older signs still say Avenue of the Americas).
And then there’s lovely Houston with its underground walkway system and the AC kept on blast. Big Texans are a very warm bunch.
Downtown Houston is completely dead after 5:00 as people drive home to their suburban garages never having to step into the tropical heat.
People who only ever have to interact with the people in their unnatural working environments makes for skewed opinions.
Yes, the Houston underground walkway that floods if it rains more than one inch at a time … lost a rental in the underground garage couple of years ago. The walkway was underwater in some spots … very scary.
I liked the skyway at Minn. but then I was there in late January and enjoyed shopping in the mall-like atmosphere. Their idea of snow measurement is in feet not inches, but even so the streets and sidewalks were clear. (Just coooooold!)
Dear Lord, the stuff they will post on Gothamist! The heathens!
BK – you think you can make the weekend advisories threads a more formal “Open thread” to encourage discussion of less formal Misc. topics?
Sure can. It’s sort of morphed into that lately, but formalizing it is a great idea.
We’re not too far away from Brighton line station rehabs completing and the next phase of Culver viaduct rehab. Both should be happening within next month and a half.