Tuesday, January 10, 2023

7 train 86'd for a month and a half

Part of the Manhattan skyline can be seen as a Flushing-bound 7 train arrives at Queensboro Plaza station on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.

NY1 

The MTA announced on Tuesday that 7 line service will be suspended between the 34th Street-Hudson Yards subway station and the Queensboro Plaza subway station for six weekends starting on Saturday, Feb. 4 as construction of new elevators is completed.

The first subway closure will start at 12:15 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4 and last until 5 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, according to the MTA. Service will also be disrupted from 3:45 a.m. on Saturdays to 10 p.m. on Sundays during the following weekends:

  • Feb. 11 - Feb. 12
  • Feb. 25 - Feb. 26
  • Mar. 11 - Mar. 12
  • Mar. 25 - Mar. 26
  • Apr. 22 - Apr. 23

Free shuttle buses will be provided to customers in lieu of subway service — in Queens between the Queensboro Plaza and Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue stations, and in Manhattan between the Times Square and 34th Street-Hudson Yards stations.

Additional weekend service changes are expected later in 2023 and again in 2024, the MTA said.

The Queensboro Plaza station served nearly 70,000 riders during an average weekday in November of last year, according to the MTA. That estimate included customers who entered and transferred at the station.

The closures will allow the MTA to install two elevators at the Queensboro Plaza subway station — one at the southern entrance, and the other between the station's mezzanine and two elevated platforms. The elevators and "other accessibility enhancements" will make the station "fully accessible," the MTA said.

 

5 comments:

NPC_translator said...

Well that's a pain in the arse.

Anonymous said...

MTA OFFICIALS have announced that the mobile homeless shelter that runs from 34th st to MAIN st Flushing will have service disruptions while your tax dollars are spent on 3rd world labor to poorly install a collection of vertical mobility urinals and waste collection boxes. Commonly referred to as elevators in other more respectable cities.

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed comment #2

georgetheatheist said...

I enjoyed comment #3.

Anonymous said...

Trains are for communists. Real Mericans drive to Manhattan.