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Map: FASTRACK on the A train

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Benjamin Kabak

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The city’s most boring* FASTRACK returns tonight at 10 p.m. It runs each night this week until 5 a.m. I’m still scratching my head over the need to run a shuttle bus for all of two blocks down Dyckman St. Anyway, the details:

  • There will be no service on the A between 168th Street and 207th, and the A will run local south of 168th St.
  • Get the 1 train service at nearby stations between 207th Street and Dyckman Street.
  • Take the M4 bus for service to and from 168th St. and A train stations at 190th Street, 181st Street and 175th Street.
  • Grab a shuttle bus connecting Dyckman Street 1 and Dyckman Street A stations.
  • Hop on regular Bx12 service connecting 207th Street 1 and 207th Street A stations.

*Unless you live in Washington Heights along the A train or in Inwood

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8 responses to “Map: FASTRACK on the A train”

  1. PaulRomaine

    “Iā€™m still scratching my head over the need to run a shuttle bus for all of two blocks down Dyckman St.”

    Ah! Those simplified MTA Maps. There are actually four blocks (about 1/3 of a mile) from the A Train station to the IRT station on Dyckman: Vermilyea, Sherman, Post and Nagle.

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    1. Roxie

      Also, the area around there is pretty heavily hilled… It’s in the favor of people coming off the 1 train, cuz it’s all downhill from there usually, but someone going up from the Dyckman A train would probably be in for a hike.

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      1. Sunny

        But when they close the 1 north of 168 and ask passengers to take the A instead for Dyckman and 207 St, they don’t have a shuttle bus…it’s the same street (and uptown passengers will have to walk up the hill too)

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      2. David

        At Dyckman the ground is pretty much flat, at least I’ve never noticed any real hill the hundreds of times I’ve walked that stretch between the IND and IRT stations.

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    2. Simon

      It’s two blocks on the south side of the street and four on the north side. It’s still barely far enough to make it worthwhile taking a bus, and Dyckman is flat.

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  2. Frank B

    If you recall, in past weeks, the MTA sometimes elected to run a shuttle bus up the full route of the IND, this new map instead directs customers to alternate, existing bus routes for 4 of the 5 stations; the MTA is probably realizing a notable cost savings by only having one station served by an entirely new shuttle bus; I imagine the shortness of the route allows them to have a single additional bus and a single additional driver, as opposed to the previous, full shuttle route, which likely required several buses and several drivers.

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    1. BruceNY

      I have to wonder: wouldn’t it be even cheaper and simpler simply to extend the M4 to the IRT Dyckman St. stop instead of adding a separate shuttle?

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      1. Simon

        There’s not a good route to do that. It could go from 190th to Dyckman via the Cloisters, but not come back the same way.

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