L train riders in Canarsie are being told to leave extra time for their commute as track work at Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway forces passengers to take a shuttle bus and two separate trains.<\/p>\n
From 5 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on weekdays through Friday, L trains are running in two sections: between Eighth Avenue and Broadway Junction, and between Broadway Junction and East 105th Street.<\/p>\n
Riders starting at Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway must take a free shuttle bus to East 105th Street. From there, they can take an L train to Broadway Junction before switching to another L train to continue toward Manhattan.<\/p>\n
For Ellandra, of Brownsville, Monday\u2019s commute affected much more than her arrival time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very late to work, and I got sent home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
When asked whether she would be paid for the day, Ellandra said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not gonna get paid for today.\u201d<\/p>\n
At East 105th Street, Carolyn Fulton Chisholm ran into a different problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen it before. Millions of steps. I couldn\u2019t make that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Chisholm said she never made it to her doctor\u2019s appointment and will now have to reschedule.<\/p>\n
Yolanda Boyd travels from Harlem to Brooklyn for work. She said her usual hour-and-18-minute trip can now take about two and a half hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes me want to quit this job and find a job closer to home,\u201d Boyd said.<\/p>\n
Why is the MTA doing the work?<\/p>\n
The MTA said crews are replacing 30-year-old switches near Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway that have reached the end of their useful life. The switches allow trains to move between tracks as they enter and leave the terminal.<\/p>\n
Crews are also replacing track nearby. The MTA said coordinating both projects should reduce the need for future service changes while providing a smoother and more reliable ride.<\/p>\n
Running L trains in two sections allows the agency to provide as much service as possible while the Canarsie terminal is closed.<\/p>\n
The MTA said it hopes to finish the work earlier than expected. Until then, riders should check the MTA app and allow extra travel time, especially during rush hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L train riders in Canarsie are being told to leave extra time for their commute as track work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-328771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}