For some reason some “service change” (which is an MTA euphemism for “you’re fucked”) notices are more complicted than others. We found this at the Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer St. Station in Williamsburg. We had a hard enough time with it at 2PM totally sober. What we’re wondering is how this looks at 2AM after a ton of beers or other poisons of choice at one of the local watering holes. Imagine the conversation among the drunken couple and/or group of friends that ensues.
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1 Gina // Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 pm
This is the most annoying change they make. I actually stayed home last time they did this because it wasn’t worth leaving Windsor Terrace. The transfer at Hoyt is bizarrely complicated and unintuitive, and then there are hundreds of people waiting on the small platforms.
2 arty // Jan 27, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I loved that sense of humor!
3 Benjamin Kabak // Jan 28, 2009 at 1:23 am
This is the most annoying change they make. I actually stayed home last time they did this because it wasn’t worth leaving Windsor Terrace.
Not to sound too judgmental, but to stay home because a fairly straightforward transfer at Hoyt St. confused you is sort of sad.
Sure, this is a pain in the neck. Sure, it’s a bit annoying to have very crowded platforms. But there are numerous other options from Windsor Terrace to get away from this mess, and it’s not that complicated after a few minutes of figuring this out.
4 alan // Jan 28, 2009 at 9:31 am
I take the lemons they give me and trek to Williamsburg for the night!
5 steve // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:04 pm
And since the MTA has been doing this transfer from the G to the F due to track work at Hoyt-Sch. for, oh, AT LEAST 15 years, I can’t imagine anyone who lives on the F line not being used to this.
6 bigmissfrenchie // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Here’s the part that stumps me, and perhaps someone can explain it for me…if the G can travel on the F line, why can’t there just be F service? Is it because they need the F to cover for the C? Wouldn’t it just be easier to have the A make local stops? And why can’t the C just run if the F can run on its track? None of it makes any sense to me.
7 steve // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:01 pm
BMF,
They are replacing the walls at the Jay St station and replacing track beds between Jay St and Bergen St, that’s why they can’t have the F go direct. And if the have the F replace the C in Brooklyn, they can also get track work done on A/C/E line as well.
And no, I have nothing to do with the MTA. I just have been an interested straphanger for almost 2 decades.
8 Josh // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 pm
The question is, and it’s one I can’t answer, is whether there’s a switch from the A/C to the F line after Jay Street/Boro Hall. It looks to me like there’s nothing wrong with the tracks themselves, but that the MTA has shut down the F platform in the Jay Street station so that platform work can be done without worrying about riders/trains.
The reason the F heads to H/S after Jay Street, I’m guessing, is that it can’t transfer by to the F line from the A/C platform. The NYT actually had a graphic of that intersection a couple of years ago, but I can’t tell whether there’s a switch between the A/C and F headed into Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/05/01/nyregion/01transit_graphic.ready.html
9 b // Jan 29, 2009 at 7:59 am
That’s a good point, Josh. They have definitely had the F run on the A after Jay Street, Manhattan-bound — meaning the F goes Bergen, Jay, High, etc… or is it the other way around, that the A has run on the F, going Hoyt, Jay, York… or possibly both? But I SEEM to recall that when they would do that, the trains would switch tracks north of Jay Street — i.e., the F would be on the normal F track at Jay, then switch to the A on the Manhattan side of the station. MEANING… there may or may not be a switch south of the station. ta da!
10 b // Jan 29, 2009 at 8:03 am
Also, what this service change really means for someone getting on the G after Barcade, is that they get a roomy, regular-length train for the weekend… no drunken dashes down the platform to catch the stumpy express.