{"id":357510,"date":"2026-09-26T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357510\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:20:53","slug":"nyc-subway-riders-rip-mta-over-l-train-weekend-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357510\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway riders rip MTA over L train weekend shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA will halt traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/l-train-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">L line for two weekends<\/a> next month \u2014 leaving already-frustrated commuters even more peeved at the transit agency.<\/p>\n<p>The L train will not run between Lorimer Street and Eighth Avenue in both directions from 11:15 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday on Oct. 2-5 and Oct. 9-12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are installing new communications equipment and taking advantage of the outage to complete additional routine track maintenance work,\u201d an MTA spokesperson told The Post Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40991486\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2023-one-teenage-boy-died-13067802.jpg\" alt=\"L train sign\" class=\"wp-image-40991486\"\/>The L will not run between Lorimer Street and Eighth Avenue from 11:15 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday on Oct. 2-5 and Oct. 9-12.\u00a0 Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>For April Diaz, 34, who takes the L from Bushwick to Eighth Avenue in Manhattan for her job at a discount store, the closure means lost time or even a late arrival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if I take the bus and it gets stuck in traffic? I am going to be late,\u201d Diaz said. \u201cI don\u2019t like going to work late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, a mother of two, said she had not seen the station notices and now has to figure out a new route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to get to work,\u201d she said. \u201cI have two daughters to take care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MTA wouldn\u2019t say how much the construction work will cost, the number of riders affected, or whether more <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/27\/stalled-l-train-turns-evening-commute-into-a-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shutdown weekends could follow<\/a> \u2014 but riders like 65-year-old John Smith said they have come to expect frequent service disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m numb to it now. I\u2019m pretty used to it but I don\u2019t like it, I don\u2019t like it at all,\u201d said Smith, a postal worker who normally rides the L from Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenue to Eighth Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40991484\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/carlos-marte-works-half-days-142511859.jpg\" alt=\"carlos marte\" class=\"wp-image-40991484\"\/>Carlos Marte, who makes home visits across the city for his health care job, said he switched to only working half days on Saturdays because of the MTA\u2019s frequent weekend disruptions. Georgette Roberts for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>During the shutdown, he expects to have to take three different trains on his route to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do have to get up earlier because I got all these different trains to take,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI\u2019m paying all this money and getting lousy service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Marte, who makes home visits across the city for his health care job, said he switched to only working half days on Saturdays because of the MTA\u2019s frequent weekend disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every weekend!\u201d Marte said. \u201cIf it\u2019s not the L train, it\u2019s going to be some other train that\u2019s disrupted or changed on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA will halt traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the L line for two weekends next month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29661,133205,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,615,58],"class_list":["post-357510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-l-train","tag-l-train-shutdown","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subway","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357510","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=357510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}