F train at rush hour(s)?

It depends on the time for the F. I take it at about 7am now, and it's generally not that crowded - but if I need to go in an hour later for any reason, it usually seems to be a mess.

I usually take the F around 8:00 - 8:15 am and it is generally OK, although nothing to get excited about.

At 15th Street I can generally get a seat, but by the time it gets to 7th Avenue it's standing room only. People getting on in Carrol Gardens are lucky to fit in at all, I'd hate to be them.

When I've taken it at 7:00 - 7:30 am it's been much better, and after 8:30 it's gradually eases up.

Although - seat or not, it never feels fast. Especially if you get stuck behind a G train.

I take the F from the 7th Avenue stop each morning around 8am. It is pretty crowded by then but I can usually get a seat - if not at 7th Avenue, definitely by Jay Street. (It's all a matter of positioning yourself by the right person, who looks like they'll be getting off to transfer - usually if someone's not napping on the train, it's a good bet that they'll get off at Jay.) It's crowded but I don't think it's terrible, although sometimes the train is delayed and then it's a sardine can.

I sometimes walk to the Q/B train and I honestly think those trains are way more crowded - I've never gotten a seat on those trains, although they're faster so it's not as big of a deal.

I rode the F train for 6 years between 15th St/9th St and Jay, and it was kinda crowded. It does get sardine can-level afterward and up through the Canal St area and beyond, according to my husband. I now ride the 2/3 and my husband the Q, and we both like our new subway commutes a whole lot more. I find that the 2/3 seems more crowded than the F if I ride it at the wrong times, but more seats seem to regularly open up through the trip toward Manhattan. According to my husband, the Q is kinda crowded going into Manhattan, but the trip's a lot faster so he doesn't mind.

brooklynpotter wrote: i'd love to know why the F is so SLOW. we could walk to cobble hill faster, don't you think?

Prob because so many of them are backed up since so many of them come one after another at rush hour to get all the people waiting in.

In queens, the F runs express so its only crappy on the brooklyn end. My dream would be for them to run an express train on the F line in bklyn, or at least skip over some of the stops!

I live between F/Q (Ocean Parkway/cortelyou)..I always walk to the Q..The F is a hassle. Its good exercise anyway.

By all means if you have a choice of living near the 7th Ave. Q or the 7th Ave. F choose the Q!!! You'll be at Union Square in less than 20 minutes rather than 35–40 minutes it takes to get to 14th/6th Ave. (assuming nothing fucks up, which, there's a reason it's called the F train).

They really, really need to run F express service into Brooklyn (and extend the V into Brooklyn). 7th Ave. has express tracks that mostly go unused, and it's not like there aren't also other points on the F line that can't make use of express service. Every evening rush hour in Manhattan going downtown you see packed F trains and nearly empty V trains (making the V pretty useless outside of whatever it does in Queens). How is it not obvious that this is a terrible distribution of resources? Oh, yeah.

I did hear that there is a plan to do something like the above, I'm just not sure when it'll be implemented. (ETA: Maybe it was extending the G--Nice for when you want to pop up to Williamsburg, four-cars of nuisance otherwise.)

Has anyone noticed that they make the F express during rush hour when there are lots of trains backed up? It used to happen at least once a week when i worked the 9-5.

But not every station has the express track so its annoying to see the F fly by at certain stations where the F is supposed to stop.

Cabaki wrote: Has anyone noticed that they make the F express during rush hour when there are lots of trains backed up? It used to happen at least once a week when i worked the 9-5.

But not every station has the express track so its annoying to see the F fly by at certain stations where the F is supposed to stop.

But that's the point of "express"--skipping stops. Admittedly random expressness is inferior to planned express service. Also admittedly not too shabby when your home stop is a designated express stop. But the fact that they need to put the F express during rush hours so often should indicate the need for scheduled express service. I'm expecting too much higher-brain functioning from the MTA, aren't I?

AVOID F
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BKNY: Word, word McWordy Word! Why the hell deos the V train stop at Second Ave? For a while it extnded to Jay Street which was a huge relief on the trains.