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Increase in Weekend Subway Wait Times "Permanent"
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 24, 2009
Modified Feb 24, 2009
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Better bring something to read—the NYC Transit Authority says that weekend subway waits between trains on the A, D, F, G, J, M, N, Q and R lines will increase from 8 minutes to 10 minutes, according to the Post. Also: "The E line, the most crowded, will run every 7½ to 10 minutes, depending on the time of day...The MTA calculates about 10 to 18 more straphangers will be forced to stand in each car on the D, E, F and Q lines. There's no estimate for the other affected lines." NYCT wants to repair lines over the weekends, to keep the subways in a "state of good repair." (L train riders won't be hit, as they already went through their weekend subway service hell when the robot train was being put in place.) MTA board member Andrew Albert spoke for all of us when he said, "This is terrible. It's [already] a joke on weekends. No one knows how to get anywhere."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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