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They have been doing this sort of thing to us for you on weekends. It does seem suspicious, as if there is all sorts of make work occurring to fill someone’s pockets.

The sadists at the MTA want to see how much they can get away with.

I wonder what it would take to organize a carpool system out of Southern Brooklyn. Something like they had during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, only, you know, far less historically significant. Maybe we can hit the MTA where it hurts and deprive them of a couple of million dollars for a few months. It would suck to take even more money out of the system, but maybe they’d get the message in the long run.

the MTA is starting the final phase of the Newkirk Avenue station rehabilitation and installing new switches so rehabilitation work on Avenues M, J, and H can begin. this shutdown is absolutely necessary and you guys are taking it way too far. the B train is going local, deal with it! you are lucky the Brighton Line has express service because the three other south Brooklyn lines do not.

This is not a blog focusing on those areas. This is a blog for and about Sheepshead Bay, its residents and how things affect them. Besides, if we sit down and shut up now, who’s gonna be left to fight and add their voice when something happens to THOSE train lines?

To Winson:

This is typical customer relations from the MTA. Instead of trying to work out a customer friendly solution, such as express trains skipping local stops on the local track,you order us to deal with it.

That is not a way to deal with customer displeasure. I am a business owner and I am familiar with how to please a customer.

I can’t think of any significant period of time since the late 1970s when there hasn’t been some sort of intermittent service disruption at night or on weekends. Now with reconstruction of Neck Road and Avenue U stations (projects which seem to move at a snail’s pace) and the Newkirk Avenue Project we are being asked to be totally and completely inconvenienced.

As to why we have express trains, look at the system map. The Brighton line is the line furthest east south of Avenue H. The line carries a lot of commuters.

It took 5 years to rebuild entirely the section from Church Avenue to Brighton Beach in the early 1900s. Seems to me that the work of restoring and updating the various sections should take a fraction of that time, that is, if they devoted serious time to doing it. I don’t see much evidence that much work is being done at all past the initial demolitions.

sorry to say, but you cannot have trains running on the local track because it will cause, bunches, gaps, and delays.