The Broadway Line will be without overnight service this week. (Click to enlarge)
The BMT Broadway line enjoyed a FASTRACK-free 2012, but the pleasures of uninterrupted overnight service come to end this evening at 10 p.m. Until 5 a.m. each night this week, there will be no service along the BMT Broadway line throughout Manhattan. As FASTRACK goes, this is one of the easier treatments with the three-block walk from 59th St. and 5th Ave. to 57th St. on the F representing the longest gap between the Broadway Line and any other train line in Manhattan.
As far as service changes, here’s what’s happening:
- The N will run between Ditmars Boulevard and Queensboro Plaza and between Stillwell Ave. and Jay St.-Metrotech, making local stops north of 36th St.
- The Q will run from 57th St./6th Ave. over the Manhattan Bridge via the 6th Ave. line. Q trains will make express stops in Manhattan.
- R service in Manhattan ends early, and the R shuttle between Bay Ridge and 36th St. will start earlier than normal.
The folks who have it the worst here are those trying to go from Manhattan to Astoria. A simple one-train ride now because a three-seat ride involving a trip up to 42nd St. and a short stint on the 7. Anyone traveling to Brooklyn via the Brighton Line should be able to replicate their usual one-seat ride with a short walk, and those looking for N service can turn to the D instead. All in all, it’s not terrible.
The next FASTRACK treatment will be on the A Line north of 168th Street for four consecutive weeknights from Monday, February 25 to Friday, March 1.
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Why doesn’t the Q run all the way to 21 St-Queensbridge?
I meant Forest Hills-71 Avenue, sorry.
While nostalgic and/or cool to see, probably not cost-effective.
As someone else wisely mentioned a day or two before, that station can only turn around about 20 TPH. The Q would send that number up to 30 which would compromise Brighton Line service. But also the growth in Astoria warrants a second line of services if not more N service and more N service is not really a true possibility when having to compete with space on Broadway (ehhh) but more so on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn.
When the Q moves to 96th and 2nd in a few years the W will likely have to make a return to assist Astoria with service.
The R doesn’t run to 71 Ave during late nights, and neither does the M. Plus, the E is local on QB late nights, not terminating at 71 Avenue. The Q does have room to end there.
As for the W, when it gets reactivated, the MTA should extend it from Whitehall Street to Bay Parkway during rush hours.
I was speaking more in terms of the rush. I didn’t know you were referring to nights only.
Said the same thing. The IND 63rd Street Line is there for a reason. They should bloody use it already.
It doesn’t seem to say what the Queens Blvd local service is going to be.
Why would that service pattern change here? It’s always the E train and only the E train.
Oh, I thought the G train went there overnights…
It’s been quite a few years since the G train went there overnight. The G train’s northern terminal is always Court Sq.
That seems logical, but couldn’t the G be extended to Forest Hills at least during late nights?
To what end? I don’t think there’s much demand for the service really, and the E is hardly crowded late at night.
I meant to say to extend G service just for the Fastracks on the Broadway line.
the E train overnight is fine, but will the M be running later than normal to cover for the R?
It doesn’t look like it on the map.
The R never serves Queens Boulevard during late nights, regardless of whether or not there is a Fastrack. So the M probably won’t go there either.
The M and R both run until about midnight, so there’s no reason for the M to run later.
Wished for an overnight B service for this fastrack.
I hope they finally fix the Montauge Tunnel Signal system even the tube is operating but the signal problems has been popping up often.
Your pic at the top is private.
Which pic at the top? The banner that says “Second Ave. Sagas” or the picture with the Broadway Fastrack map?
One correction — the Q’s going to 57th and Sixth late night. They’d have to smash a hole in the roof of the D train’s stop on 53rd St. to get the Q from Rockefeller Center to 57th and Seventh.
They really should run the M overnight to Queens Plaza this week, just to allow for more trains to 23rd-Ely-Court Square for the other transfer option to the 7 for Astoria customers or N riders who transfer to the 7 at QBP.
Also, 57/Seventh is closed, so it is obviously illogical for the Q to go there…
Also, I’m pretty sure the N is running local north of 59th Street.
I think that the N uses the express tracks up to 36 Street so the R could terminate.
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