Since Dec. 8, it\u2019s been a new ballgame for the workweek on the F & M lines.<\/p>\n
New York City Transit has swapped train service on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. at four stations on each on the F and M lines in Manhattan, Queens, and Roosevelt Island. The reason? A delay-provoking line merge of the two lines at Queens Plaza, where the E and M trains had to cross each other. The swap should translate into more timing consistency on the two lines, and the E and F trains as well. This should please the million-plus riders who rely on the four lines.<\/p>\n
During the workweek, the F will run along 53rd Street, on the same line as the E, as it had done until December 2001, when the now-gone V train pushed it to the new tunnel that runs along 63rd Street.<\/p>\n
The V was later subsumed by the M train, which will continue to run its normal route, as will the F, from 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m on weekdays, and from 9:30 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday and holidays.<\/p>\n
During these weekday line changes, the F train in Manhattan will be stopping at Lexington\/53rd Street, and Fifth and 53rd Street stations; the M at Roosevelt Island, Lexington Avenue\/63rd, and 57th\/Sixth Avenues. If you need to go to Queens Plaza, an important connecting spot during the week, the F will stop there, but not the M.<\/p>\n
This will mean that both the E and M trains will share their track with one less line, and any delays on the M or R trains will not impact the E and F train operation; under the pre-Dec. 8 route scheduling, up to one out of every five trains had been delayed at Queens Plaza.<\/p>\n
Noted NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow, \u201cImplementing this swap has a real impact on the 1.2 million riders who will experience the benefit of more reliable trips for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Are you a fan of statistics? There are more people riding under Queens Boulevard than the entire Philadelphia Transit System, as stated by MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t worry about nights, weekends, and holidays for the M; it doesn\u2019t run.<\/p>\n
Trains serving Roosevelt Island and 21st St\/Queensbridge will be less crowded, with additional peak-hour service for the M line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Dec. 8, it\u2019s been a new ballgame for the workweek on the F & M lines. New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,12313],"class_list":{"0":"post-71490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-ralph-spielman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490","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=71490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}