Friday, July 25, 2008

Better service before the fare increase?!?

Looks like it CAN be done:

MTA announces additional service
By Matthew Sweeney | msweeney@am-ny.com

Starting Sunday, a number of subway lines will get increased service to relieve overcrowding. The expansions were paid for by cuts in other areas of Transit's budget. Among the lines getting increases are:

No. 3: Will have additional overnight service all week between Times Square and Harlem-148th Street.

No. 7: 14 additional round trips each Saturday and Sunday. Weekday express service starts at 5:33 a.m.

B: Will run weekdays until 11 p.m. instead of 9:30 p.m.

M: Expanded service between Broad Street in lower Manhattan and Metropolitan Avenue until 11 p.m. and additional service between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

W: Will have more rush hour trains between 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.; andwill run until 11 p.m. weekdays instead of 9:30


3 out of the 5 improvements are on lines that run through Queens! Holy cow...

3 comments:

Ridgewoodian said...

Now if they would just open up the Chrystie Street Connector and send one of the Nassau Street trains uptown...

Anonymous said...

We need more W service like we need more buildings.

Reroute the W to the R or the E!

Politics, not ridership, determines service.

Ridgewoodian said...

ANONYMOUS: Reroute the W to the R or the E!

Do you mean along the Queens Blvd. line? Because my understand is that the tracks there are already at or very near capacity.