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A new Subway Weekender and service changes on 9 lines

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Benjamin Kabak

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Before we jump into the usual array of weekend service changes, I have some good news: There’s a new Subway Weekender on the scene. SAS reader Lance let drop a hint that he’s taken over the mapping efforts now that Shawn has retired his site and app. You can find the new Subway Weekender at this link. Bookmark the site and enjoy the visual of this weekend’s service changes.

Now on with the diversions…


From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, uptown 4 trains run express from Grand Central-42nd Street to 125th Street due to track work at 59th Street and electronics installation.


From 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Saturday, August 4 and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, August 5, 5 trains run every 20 minutes between Dyre Avenue and Bowling Green due to track work south of 59th Street and electronics installation.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 4 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, uptown 6 service operates express from Grand Central-42nd Street to 125th Street due to track work south of 59th Street and electronics installation.


From 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5, Flushing-bound 7 trains skip 82nd, 90th, 103rd and 111th Streets due to cable bracket installation between 74th Street-Broadway and 111th Street for Flushing CBTC.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, August 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday, August 5, Bronx-bound D trains are rerouted via the N line from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street in Brooklyn due to switch renewal work south of Bay 50th Street.


From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, August 6, Bronx-bound D trains run express from 36th Street to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, skipping DeKalb Avenue, due to track maintenance and replacement at DeKalb Avenue.


From 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Saturday, August 4, Bronx-bound D trains run express from 145th Street to Tremont Avenue due to repair and replacement of corroded steel between 161st and 167th Streets.


From 11 p.m. Friday, August 3 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, Coney Island-bound F trains are rerouted via the M line after 36th Street, Queens to 47th-50th Sts in Manhattan due to station work at Lexington Avenue-63rd Street for the Second Avenue Subway project.


From 11 p.m. Friday, August 3 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, Jamaica-bound F trains skip 14th and 23rd Streets due to rail and track work north of 14th and 23rd Streets.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, August 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday, August 5, M service is suspended. Free shuttle buses operate between Metropolitan and Myrtle Avenues, making all station stops due to panel work at Wyckoff, Knickerbocker and Central Avenues.


From 11 p.m. to 12 midnight (one hour), Friday August 3, 71st Avenue-bound M trains skip 14th Street and 23rd Street due to rail and track work north of 14th and 23rd Streets.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, August 4 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, Manhattan-bound Q trains are rerouted via the R from DeKalb Avenue to Canal Street due to track replacement and maintenance at DeKalb Avenue.


From 11:30 p.m. Friday, August 3 to 5 a.m. Monday, August 6, Coney Island-bound Q trains run express from Prospect Park to Sheepshead Bay due to track panel installation south of Kings Highway.


From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5, and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, August 6, there are no R shuttle trains between 59th Street and 36th Street in Brooklyn due to track maintenance and replacement at DeKalb Avenue. Customers should take the N instead. R trains operate between Bay Ridge-95th Street and 59th Street in Brooklyn.

Comments

11 responses to “A new Subway Weekender and service changes on 9 lines”

  1. Clarke

    This is the best news of the summer…although I worry slightly at his use of the official map (re: copyright issues). Also lays to bed my personal conspiracy that the MTA had hired the ex-Weekender to manage their worse-than-useless weekend diversions map program.

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  2. Sunny

    One caveat with the map: the times for the part time service changes are WAY too small to read. Otherwise nice, but I also don’t like the use of the official map.

    BTW, the original SubwayWeekender just traced the official map.

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  3. Jerrold

    About this weekend:

    It surprises me that those August Saturday closings of Park Ave. and other streets only last until 1 P.M.
    After all, many people get up later on the weekend and all that.
    If they did not want it to be for all day, they could have made it afternoons only instead of mornings only.

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    1. Ed

      This is a public relations exercise, or something I file under “pointless scam”. I’m not sure who the mark is supposed to be. The sort of people who actually care that Park Avenue is closed to foot and bike traffic only would presumably actually try to use Park Avenue when it is closed to foot and bike traffic only, and discover the inconvenient hours. Or maybe I am reading to much into this.

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  4. 238th

    Aw, no mention of Barclays Center at the Atlantic Ave station on the map? That IS old school!

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  5. Jerrold

    Some more of the usual missed deadlines: The “headhouse” at Dey St. was supposed to be open by July. It’s not. Now, we just have to wonder about November for the Dey St. passageway, and about June 2014 for the entire project.

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  6. Jerrold

    P.S. I forgot to add that I was down there myself today, so don’t believe any statement on other websites that says the headhouse is opening by late July.

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  7. alek

    I was at the 77th streeet (6) train downtown platform. A huge MTA fail for posting the posters saying the 5 runs every 20 minutes on the uptown platform. The 5 never stops at the 77th street station.

    I hated the 6 diversion I felt bad for some of the people with canes walking down the looooong stairway to get to the uptown express platform from the enterance.

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    1. Benjamin Kabak

      Why is that an MTA Fail? The point of posting those signs is to inform riders along that line of service changes. Just because the 5 never stops at 77th St. doesn’t mean riders boarding at 77th St. don’t want to know. If anything, it’s good to have information about express train service available at local stops so riders can plan accordingly.

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      1. Andrew

        Signs about changes on the 5 are only supposed to be placed at stations used by the 5. There’s enough clutter already without excess signage; the master list of all service changes is posted at every station and can help people determine what’s happening on other lines.

        I wouldn’t call this an MTA Fail, though – it was a minor error by whoever was posting the signs.

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  8. crosstownlocal

    while taking the manhattan-bound N this weekend, i caught a very well-lit glimpse of the abandoned myrtle avenue subweay station just north of dekalb avanue! the construction for the Q seemed to be using the abandoned station for something, and in between the cut-outs along the N tracks one could see the full height of the myrtle ave station, the tile work, and the infrastructure around the zoetrope installed there. it was a fantastic glimpse of a station that has a very tough photographic record to track down…!

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