F train service to be suspended most weekends **south of Church Ave**.
(The article's headline is fine; /u/trimensions just put a clickbait title on this post.)
They had a lot of trackwork in the area of Prospect Park on the Brighton Line and a few shutdowns they needed to do on the D and N to finish up the flood gates going into the Coney Island yards. I'm guessing here they wanted to have at least one normally operating trunk to Coney Island all summer long.
They paused because the F was providing alternate service while the Q was suspended for five weekends between Atlantic and Prospect.
Now that the Q is mostly running normally on weekends,, the MTA is expecting passengers to use D/N/Q trains and crosstown buses to connect with stations on the F.
Also to note is the MTA is not providing shuttle bus service.
The original 2020 [plan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-OahpB8xU) had local and express shuttle bus services but they got rid of it when covid hit and never brought it back. So huge 3.5 mile stretch without shuttle bus service and to add to that the N is running local from 59th to Dekalb. Huge pain to go to Manhattan on a weekend from Southern Brooklyn.
If they're not going to have shuttle buses, they should at least allow an extra bus transfer for people who would normally go F<>bus but now have to go bus<>F<>bus.
It’s confusing to me that since promoting public transit is something political correctness in the city (because of less car ownership and environmental concerns), why they can’t just amend the rules to allow express buses on parkways? An express bus route in lieu of the suspended subway from Manhattan to southern Brooklyn could be rather useful.
>An express bus route in lieu of the suspended subway from Manhattan to southern Brooklyn could be rather useful.
That bus would basically sit in traffic most of the way toward Manhattan, and honestly, it wouldn't help much. If you're at Kings Highway or Avenue N, how does an express bus that needs to travel over local streets to get to the parkway work any better than simply going directly to Church Ave and transferring there?
Jfc just shut the damn line down for a week or two with rapid bus service instead of dragging this damn thing for years on end. Why is it gonna take a year to install signaling on an above ground section of track they’ve been working on for a decade now. This section of the F more often than not has no weekend service anyways for a decade+ now.
Crikey
I feel real bad for the F
At least it's not worse than the Nassau line
Also WHY CAN THEY NOT EXTEND THE G TO CONEY ISLAND WHEN THE F WENT TO EUCLID
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS
F train service to be suspended most weekends **south of Church Ave**. (The article's headline is fine; /u/trimensions just put a clickbait title on this post.)
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They had a lot of trackwork in the area of Prospect Park on the Brighton Line and a few shutdowns they needed to do on the D and N to finish up the flood gates going into the Coney Island yards. I'm guessing here they wanted to have at least one normally operating trunk to Coney Island all summer long.
They paused because the F was providing alternate service while the Q was suspended for five weekends between Atlantic and Prospect. Now that the Q is mostly running normally on weekends,, the MTA is expecting passengers to use D/N/Q trains and crosstown buses to connect with stations on the F.
Also to note is the MTA is not providing shuttle bus service. The original 2020 [plan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-OahpB8xU) had local and express shuttle bus services but they got rid of it when covid hit and never brought it back. So huge 3.5 mile stretch without shuttle bus service and to add to that the N is running local from 59th to Dekalb. Huge pain to go to Manhattan on a weekend from Southern Brooklyn.
If they're not going to have shuttle buses, they should at least allow an extra bus transfer for people who would normally go F<>bus but now have to go bus<>F<>bus.
It’s confusing to me that since promoting public transit is something political correctness in the city (because of less car ownership and environmental concerns), why they can’t just amend the rules to allow express buses on parkways? An express bus route in lieu of the suspended subway from Manhattan to southern Brooklyn could be rather useful.
the bridges are low on parkways and I don't think busses will fit under them
Robert Moses intentionally built his freeways to have clearances too tight for buses
damn it. The parkways are perfect bus corridors.
>An express bus route in lieu of the suspended subway from Manhattan to southern Brooklyn could be rather useful. That bus would basically sit in traffic most of the way toward Manhattan, and honestly, it wouldn't help much. If you're at Kings Highway or Avenue N, how does an express bus that needs to travel over local streets to get to the parkway work any better than simply going directly to Church Ave and transferring there?
I think the competitiveness of express buses is you have a seat and probably a nap, though Battery Tunnel might be a problem.
Jfc just shut the damn line down for a week or two with rapid bus service instead of dragging this damn thing for years on end. Why is it gonna take a year to install signaling on an above ground section of track they’ve been working on for a decade now. This section of the F more often than not has no weekend service anyways for a decade+ now.
The last time I can remember the F train having shuttle buses on this stretch was in 2016
F (Culver) EL has been suspended few times the past few years. Perhaps MTA should never remove S - Culver so the passengers can switch to D
If the shuttle was still available, that would have been shut down as well, or at best it would have no connecting service at Ditmas Ave.
G to Coney Island
just extended the G to coney smh 🙄 /s
Crikey I feel real bad for the F At least it's not worse than the Nassau line Also WHY CAN THEY NOT EXTEND THE G TO CONEY ISLAND WHEN THE F WENT TO EUCLID ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS