I’m heading back to the Transit Museum next week for the second in my Problem Solvers series. After interviewing Sarah Kaufman in February, I’ll be sitting down on Wednesday with Michael Frumin for an hour-long discussion on the ins and outs of MTA BusTime. The hour-long session, which will include an audience Q-and-A, starts at 6:30 p.m. in Brooklyn Heights. Doors are at 6.
Frumin is a systems engineering manager at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority where his focus is developing real-time bus tracking and customer information systems using open technology. His prior work in open source software, open data, web applications, and data analysis span the public transportation, finance, and online media industries. We’ll be focusing on how the MTA is finally delivering real-time bus location to passengers after years of stops and starts. To RSVP, mosey on over to this link. The event is free, but the February one filled up. I hope to see you there.
Meanwhile, as part of my effort to get the service advisories out earlier in the day on Friday, the rest of this post contains this weekend’s changes. Click through for more. I’ll have regular content later on this morning.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, 3 service is extended to New Lots Avenue due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, there are no 4 trains between Brooklyn Bridge and New Lots Avenue due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall. Customers should take the 3, N, Q or R instead. Note: 4 trains operate local in both directions between 125th Street and Brooklyn Bridge.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 21, downtown 4 trains skip 176th Street, Mt. Eden Avenue, 170th Street, 167th Street and 161st Street due to signal work.
From 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, April 21, there are no 5 trains between E. 180th and Bowling Green due to work on the E. 180th Street Interlocking. Customers should take the 2 or 4 (operating between Woodlawn and Brooklyn Bridge) instead. Shuttle trains run every 30 minutes between E. 180th Street and Dyre Avenue. For service between:
- E. 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse, take the 2
- 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Brooklyn Bridge, take the 4
- Brooklyn Bridge and Bowling Green, use nearby R stations
From 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, April 22, there are no 5 trains between Grand Central-42nd Street and Bowling Green due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall. Customers should take the 4 (operating between Woodlawn and Brooklyn Bridge.) or R instead. 5 trains run every 20 minutes between Dyre Avenue and Grand Central-42nd Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, Brooklyn-bound A trains run local from 59th Street-Columbus Circle to West 4th Street, then via the F Line to Jay Street-MetroTech due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street MetroTech.
From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22, Brooklyn-bound C trains run via the F line from West 4 Street to Jay Street-MetroTech due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street MetroTech.
From 11 p.m. Friday, April 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, Brooklyn-bound D trains skip 182nd-183rd Sts. due to track maintenance.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21, to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, E trains operate via the F in both directions after 36th Street in Queens to West 4th Street in Manhattan due to work on the 5th Avenue Interlocking Signal System Modernization project. E trains travel via the 63rd Street tunnel and 6th Avenue corridors, stopping at F stations. Downtown trains resume the E route at West 4th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, Queens-bound F trains run via the A line from Jay Street-MetroTech to West 4th Street due to work on the Broadway/Lafayette-to-Bleecker Street transfer connection.
From 11 p.m. Friday, April 20 to 11:59 p.m. Saturday, April, 21, there are no G trains between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avs due to the installation of fiber optic, communication and control cables from Bedford-Nostrand to Flushing Avenue. Free shuttle buses make all G station stops between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Square, and then connect with the R at Queens Plaza and the E, F at 21st Street-Queensbridge.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, April 21. to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, Coney Island-bound N trains run via the D line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to track panel installation south of 59th Street. Trains stop at New Utrecht Avenue-62nd Street; out-of-system transfer is available with MetroCard.
From 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22, Q trains operate in two sections due to rail replacement south of Ocean Parkway:
- Between 57th Street-7th Avenue and Brighton Beach
- Between Brighton Beach and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue every 16 minutes.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, April 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 23, Coney Island-bound Q trains run express from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach due to track panel installation at Kings Highway.
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OK, the F is not running though Broadway/Lafayette over the weekend because they’re doing work on the Bleecker transfer and is running on the A/C to Jay Street. But at the same time the A/C is running through Broadway/Lafayette but isn’t running it’s normal route due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street. How does this make any sense (and I know part of the answer — it’s because the MTA wants to just adjust the interlocking south of West Fourth and leave it over the weekend in the pre-1954 alignment, which is why the E is running via Sixth Avenue, so it can still access WTC. But that’s not the contradictory explanation they’re offering up for this weekend’s service change).
Also, for next Wednesday at the Museum, does Frumin know if there’s going to be an open source way to salvage the 34th Street countdown clocks, or are those proprietary and DOA under the MTA’s open source BusTime system?
The F and A/C diversions are in opposite directions!
Benjamin … is there any way to record this event, and perhaps post it on line someplace where we can stream it? I suspect many would be interested in attending, but simply can’t.
Seconded!
I noticed every single weekend that the 5 line always operate either every 20 mintues or 30 minutes. How much more longer until the East 180th street interlocking project will be completed?!
My friend lives in Eastchester-Dyre Ave and it bugs her. Can the area served by the 5 line have a break and do the normal service weekend.
Also why cannot the 4 run express until Union Square then it can switch to local tracks to Brooklyn Bridge?
The 4 is running local because otherwise the 5 terminating on the uptown express track at Grand Central would get in its way.
the 5 is termininating in The Bronx. So the 4 could run express until Union Square then switch to the local tracks to Brooklyn Bridge.