J is for just and M is miserable.<\/p>\n
The MTA is forcing J and M train riders into a slog this fall, removing their direct connection to Manhattan for five weekends as workers replace track equipment near Marcy Avenue.<\/p>\n
Shuttle buses will replace both trains between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway in Brooklyn and Essex Street in Manhattan, and J trains will only run between Jamaica Center and Myrtle Avenue-Broadway as crews replace track switches, according to the MTA. <\/p>\n
Shuttle buses will replace both trains between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway in Brooklyn and Essex Street in Manhattan. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe switches were last replaced in 1997 and are critical for connecting Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, Ozone Park, and Jamaica in Brooklyn and Queens with Lower Manhattan,\u201d the MTA said on its website. <\/p>\n
Riders should brace for the commuting chaos Oct. 17-18, Oct. 24-25, Nov. 7-9, Nov. 13-16 and Nov. 20-23.<\/p>\n
The cuts will leave four Brooklyn stations without train service: Flushing Avenue, Lorimer Street, Hewes Street and Marcy Avenue.<\/p>\n
M trains will still run in Queens and parts of Brooklyn, but won\u2019t enter Manhattan during the five affected weekends.<\/p>\n
The remaining M trains will run every 20 minutes and be split into two sections. <\/p>\n
One will run between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle-Wyckoff with riders continuing toward Myrtle Avenue-Broadway having to switch to another M train at Myrtle-Wyckoff.<\/p>\n
The cuts will leave four Brooklyn stations without train service: Flushing Avenue, Lorimer Street, Hewes Street and Marcy Avenue. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
Riders should brace for the commuting chaos Oct. 17-18, Oct. 24-25, Nov. 7-9, Nov. 13-16 and Nov. 20-23. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
On its website the MTA urged riders to use other subway lines, including the L at Myrtle-Wyckoff and the A, C or L at Broadway Junction, to reach Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some riders traveling from Jamaica could take the E instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J is for just and M is miserable. The MTA is forcing J and M train riders into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,57,141,9,24,63,23948,615,142,58],"class_list":["post-374931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-public-transportation","tag-subway","tag-transit","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374931","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=374931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}