Good news for all us weekend 2/3 train riders! The express trains have been running local, so work could be done on the express tracks, since last winter. It seems like much longer than that. If the MTA is to be believed (ha ha ha, sometimes I crack myself up!) there are only five more weekends of disrupted service. While going local only adds a few minutes to a trip, all the starting and stopping makes that trip drag on seemingly forever.
One thing I'll miss when service returns to normal are the seemingly regular subway-riding New Yorkers who haven't quite caught on that there has been a service change. I see this all the time at 96th Street. The downtown 2/3 pulls into the station, someone starts toward the train but stops when they see it is not the 1 (for non-New Yorkers reading this, when the 2/3 runs local it stops at all the stations the 1 stops at so there's no sense in waiting for a 1 train). I'll also miss the panicked dash out of the uptown 2/3 at 96th when riders realize the train isn't going up Broadway.
I really don't think they'll be done by the end of the year.
But if they are, I'll miss seeing the workers in the lit-up express tracks - I like seeing the tunnels more clearly.
Posted by: Jen | 12 October 2006 at 06:46 PM