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Rally for Express F train Tomorrow at 2:00 — Brooklynian

Rally for Express F train Tomorrow at 2:00

wtgirl
wtgirl
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Brooklyn Expresses: F-Train Frustration
WHO: Council Members Bill de Blasio, Simcha Felder, and Domenic Recchia; Community Activists
WHAT: Rally to Support Petition to Restore Express Service on Brooklyn’s F line
WHEN: 2 pm, Thursday, June 28, 2007
WHERE: Church Avenue Station; Church Avenue and McDonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, New York—Council Members Bill de Blasio (D-Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Kensington), Simcha Felder (D-Midwood, Bensonhurst and Boro Park), and Domenic Recchia (D-Coney Island, Gravesend, Bensonhurst) will stand with community activists and representatives of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Transportation Alternatives tomorrow, Thursday, June 27, 2007, to rally in support of the restoration of express service on Brooklyn’s F line.

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  • drano
    drano
    I hope this goes well, although I can't make it.
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    Hope this goes through! There needs to be some sort of express along this line. Did you see in that recent report on subway capacity that the V is at the lowest capacity of any of the trains? (I would guess because going downtown, it terminates at 2nd Avenue, so anyone who wants to go beyond that just waits for the F.) That means that the V is less-used than the G. The G!
  • bystander
    bystander
    Interestignly, a Manhattan-bound F at 7th Ave this morning (8:30am) stopped on the rarely-used express tracks and then skipped the 4th Ave stop.
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    But then it went on to make all other local stops. No idea why. Looks like it might have come express from Church Ave. 'cause there were plenty of seats.
  • drano
    drano
    jennitrixie wrote: Hope this goes through! There needs to be some sort of express along this line. Did you see in that recent report on subway capacity that the V is at the lowest capacity of any of the trains? (I would guess because going downtown, it terminates at 2nd Avenue, so anyone who wants to go beyond that just waits for the F.) That means that the V is less-used than the G. The G!
    The G is galling. They run that thing like it's rush hour between Brooklyn and Queens every hour of every day. Plus it's the cork in the bottle at 4th avenue that pretty much guarantees that we won't be seeing increased F service any time soon.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    jennitrixie wrote: Hope this goes through! There needs to be some sort of express along this line. Did you see in that recent report on subway capacity that the V is at the lowest capacity of any of the trains? (I would guess because going downtown, it terminates at 2nd Avenue, so anyone who wants to go beyond that just waits for the F.) That means that the V is less-used than the G. The G!
    Yeah, I don't know why they won't just run the V into Brooklyn. :?
  • givemecandy
    givemecandy
    The G, if you ride it regularly, doesn't run all that often. About every ten minutes during the day. But I agree that it royally screws up F service big time. Lucky for us, MTA plans to run the G to Church Ave. starting in 2008. That'll fix that part of the mess, in addition to giving us direct access to the hipsterlands.

    Then we can work on the problem of V's getting in the way at 2nd Avenue, E's getting in the way in midtown, congestion on Queens Boulevard slowing down the F all the way to the East Village, complete total schedule irregularity where three empty F's will come within three minutes and then there won't be another for 15 and it will be super crowded (VERY common).

    I live by the R. Which is a useless local that takes 45 min. to get to Times Square unless you transfer off of it as soon as possible. Yet, it comes, every 10 minutes, quite reliably. That's comforting. The F train is just a huge PITA.
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    I always think of the R as the tortoise: slow and steady. There's something comforting in that. Doesn't stop me from switching to the Q/N/whatever, though.

    I thought I was the only one that noticed the unevenly distributed Fs--esp. during evening rush. If the one pulling in looks like a sardine tin, I step back and think, "Suckas! There's an 80% chance there's a completely empty F train right behind this one."
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