F train

I noticed it as well this week. For some reason the morning commute in the winter gets very crowded.

Anonymous wrote: The F train has been horrendous lately. No matter how early I leave for work, I still end up late because of train traffic. I guess that line intersects with too many others. I took the R train yesterday and could not believe the difference!

Yeah its caused me to be late to work a few times in the past two weeks.

For me its due to how slowly the train moves, and the countless delays due to "sick passengers"

I also get a laugh when it switches to the A line without any announcements...

It's also cool that no matter how long you've waited for it at 7th avenue, there's almost always a useless piece of crap G train waiting to pass in front of you and slow things down just a little more.

Seems pretty much the same as always in the mornings (I head in around 7 a.m.), but the evenings have definitely gotten worse.

I change over from the A/C at Jay St. around 5:30-6 p.m. on my way home. Before New Year's, most days an F would come in within a minute or two after I got off the A/C, if there wasn't one already waiting there, and they were never too crowded. Usually wouldn't get a seat, but it wasn't a sardine situation, either. Maybe once a week or so there would be a longer wait, and the train would be a lot more crowded when it came in.

Since New Year's, it's been the other way around. Just about every day, there's a minimum 5-minute wait between F trains at Jay, and they're always crowded when they get there, plus 3 or 4 more A and C trains have come through in the meantime, so all of those people are trying to get on.

One day recently was a real nightmare. I took a slightly different route (took the 4 to Borough Hall and walked over to Jay St.), and there was a 45-minute wait, during which they made announcements every 5 to 10 minutes that there was an F train at York St., "one station away." None of those F trains ever showed up, but after 45 minutes, a V arrived, already jammed to the gills, and there was a huge crowd built up on the platform because of the delay (A and C trains dumping passengers every minute or so during that entire time).

Kid_Baco wrote:

Am I missing something? I feel I have to be missing something, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how the current method makes more sense.

Um. We're talking about the MTA...the same agency that, last summer on the weekends, had the 4/5 run on the 2/3 line...and the 2/3 run on the 4/5. When I asked a station agent whether the 2 would stop at Grand Cental, he looked at me like I'd sprouted about 3 additional heads. Needless to say, about 10 minutes later, the 2 arrived...and ran over the green line.

I'm always annoyed when a G train jock-blocks my F train. This always makes me chuckle, though.

laura wrote: [Nuclear Redaction: just gotta say, I like your sig line. And your location ...]

thanks!

Part of the MTA's plan for 2007 or 2008 (I can't find a source material right now) is to actually extend the G train service out to Church Avenue on a regular basis.