MTA to Bay Ridge: F*** You, Suspended Service During Street Fest Edition

Posted by Brian Hedden at 9:00 am Bay Ridge, MTA

Jun 092010

The MTA hates us all. Photo credit: Brian Hedden

Last weekend, the MTA suspended R-train service from Whitehall to 95th Street, as they do from time-to-time. Shuttle buses were provided for riders going to and from Bay Ridge.

This happens from time to time, and it isn’t much fun. But what made this especially infuriating this time is that it coincided with the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue festival.

I just don’t understand – the Fifth Avenue festival – clocking in around 20 blocks – is one of Bay Ridge’s major annual events. Allowing a major disruption to a neighborhood’s only subway line during such an event is unacceptable, and Transit has a history of doing it (a similar event last year in Bushwick during an L-train outage comes to mind).

It’s time for the City and MTA to work together to end this nonsense.

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What I found oddest about this was that the service was cut off so that they could install the yellow bumps on the floor along the edge on the Manhattan bound tracks.

They did almost the exact same thing a couple of weekends back only they simply put in fresh cement along the entire stretch (it was as if they forgot to bring the yellow strips) and they didn’t shut down service — they merely had trains run along the 95th Street bound tracks @ 86th Street in both directions all weekend.