I'm going to complain about the G for a second

Wikipedia wrote: Controversy
The introduction of the V service in 2001 added nine additional peak-hour trains coming into Manhattan on the IND Queens Boulevard Line.[4] However, to make room for the V train on Queens Boulevard, the G train was cut back to a new weekday terminal at Court Square. In the original plan, Court Square was to have been the G train's full-time northern terminal.

The service plan was designed to redistribute Queens-bound passenger loads in the heavily-used IND Sixth Av corridor, and to improve service and transfer opportunities for passengers using local stations along Queens Blvd, particularly by providing passengers at local stations direct service to the 6th Avenue line. The New York Times described the service plan as "complex and heavily criticized;" several years experience with the service running, however, has shown its value. V trains, while by no means consistently full, have taken some load off the F train, though many riders have complained that the passenger load on the E train has worsened. In response to complaints from G riders who aired them at public hearings (they were about to lose their transfer to Manhattan-bound trains at Queens Plaza), the MTA agreed to a number of concessions. MTA agreed to install an underground moving walkway between Court Square and 23rd Street–Ely Avenue (E V) on the Queens Boulevard Line. In addition, a free out-of-system MetroCard transfer to 45th Road–Court House Square (7 <7>) on the IRT Flushing Line was created at those two stations—one of only two such transfers in the system. The MTA is pursuing other physical improvements to stations in the Long Island City, Queens area.

The MTA also agreed to extend the G to 71st Avenue during evenings and weekends, and to operate the service more frequently. The authority "had spent several hundred thousand dollars on tests, trying to figure out a way to keep the G train running past the Court Square Station and farther into Queens on weekdays. But because of the addition of the V train, which will share space along the Queens Boulevard lines with the trains already there—the E, F, G, and R trains could not fit during the daytime, when service is heaviest."[5]

To run more frequently, the G needed more trains, but there were not enough on hand. So the solution was to cut the trains from six cars to four, sticking all the leftover cars together to make extra trains. While on paper this means more trains, it sometimes seems to riders that it means only more of them packed into smaller trains. Some passengers missed trains because they were standing at the wrong part of the platform

And, more importantly for explaining the G-train sprint, it means that on a platform designed to be filled by an eight-car, 600-foot train, the ones that show up now are only 300 feet long. Back in December, when the change was first made, paper signs were posted on platform columns to let riders know where these truncated trains would stop. But the signs are gone now and for people unfamiliar with the line, the wind sprints have begun.[6]

G train riders made the restoration of service an issue in the 2002 New York gubernatorial race, but the transit authority said, "Unfortunately, putting the G back to full service is just not an option, given our track capacity—and that's not likely to change."[7]

G train riders have also lobbied for the creation of a second free out-of-system transfer between the Broadway station and Hewes Street on the BMT Jamaica Line, which is only two blocks away. However, the MTA said, "We have no intention of making that a permanent free transfer."[8]

Most of the stations along the G train's route were built with multiple exits to the street. Over the years, many of the lower-use exits were closed (as they were in other parts of the subway system), as the city was concerned that they were a magnet for criminals, and there was insufficient traffic to justify staffing them full-time. But in July 2005, in response to community pressure, the MTA agreed to re-open the South Portland Avenue exit of the Fulton Street station. The New York Times described it as a "minor victory" for "a maligned line."[9]

During construction on the Queens Boulevard Line, the G train frequently terminates at Court Square, even at times when the published timetable says that it runs to 71st Avenue. Some riders "are suspicious that the service disruptions are simply a de facto way to implement the original plan of halving G train service." However, an MTA spokesman says that "It's not personal…. If you want to keep the system up to date, you need to make sure the track and switching are all in good repair."[10]. Since Spring 2007, weekend G service has been cut back to Court Square on weekends "until further notice".[1]

A community group, Save the G!, has regularly lobbied the MTA for more G train service since the original cutbacks when the V train was introduced in 2001.

Anonymous wrote: Ever since I moved off the G line, I gained weight! I think this is because I

1. walk less. I used to walk all the way home to Greenpoint from Bedford ave to avoid waiting around for the G.

2. never sprint. That short train thing is a bitch!

All I've got to say is Come to East Bed Stuy! The J train is all right!