Bye Bye, B Line
Bad news for B train commuters: starting September 28, the MTA will cease express service along the B route for two years, due to repairs and restorations, according to the Daily News. Local service will continue, but this will lengthen the commutes for residents of Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island. Nixon…
Bad news for B train commuters: starting September 28, the MTA will cease express service along the B route for two years, due to repairs and restorations, according to the Daily News. Local service will continue, but this will lengthen the commutes for residents of Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island. Nixon Williams, one such commuter, complained to the News: “The train just keeps getting more expensive, and the service gets worse.” What else is new.
2 Years of Pokey B Line [NY Daily News]
I’m a little confused. Does this mean the B will stop at Parkside and all the other local stops south of Prospect Park? Or will there be no B service at all past Prospect Park?
6years, Mrs Chicken told me that it was done in the 60’s or 70’s and then “discovered” later on and restored.
why do people take express trains anyway? they are always SOOOO crowded and you just shave off like a few minutes of your commute. i dont think it’s worth being packed in like a sardine.
local train love
*rob*
Tybur6, what is that animated painting doing there anyway?
The B saves only 10 minutes or so coming from Brighton Beach (not 30 like the woman in the article said!), so I think people will pick the B or Q depending on where they’re going in Manhattan. However, if you work north of 34th St on the B, you could save time by taking the Q to 34th and switching.
Sparafucile, I don’t think a unidirectional express is possible. The trains have to end up somewhere, after all. Where do ten trains go if they can’t return to where they started? Also, if a train goes through a work zone, it goes very slowly, so that unidirectional express may not be that express after all
Methinks ftgreenepark might has a case of misplaced enthusiasm. Since when has the cessation of one train line ever improved service on another?
I think this will actually bunch up the Q-train… has to share the tracks. B-train can’t zoom by / make adjustments at express stations.
And we know how well, timed the trains are… One day I hope to see that animated painting just after De Kalb actually animated.
yaaay!
hopefully they run Q trains more frequently at rush hour. news most welcome.
Rather than shut both express tracks, they could do them one at a time and go to a three-track system with express inbound in the morning and outbound in the evening. But maybe that would be too customer-friendly.