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Remember, this is the first full week of closures at the southbound Parkside, Beverley, and Cortelyou platforms for Phase Two of renovations [/blog/transportation/this-weeks-subway-service-changes-plus-info-on-upcoming-southbound-station-rehab] –but you’ll have changes on the Q and B far beyond just that. Details via MTA.info [http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/Default.aspx]
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Source: wiltshireonline.orgTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week I described my harrowing trip home from a Broadway play due to detours and inadequate road signage [/the-need-for-better-signage/]. This week I had a similar experience returning from a play on the Upper East Side of Manhattan using the subway. The play would
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Burgeoning F train ridership. Source: abrunete / FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I have often been critical of MTA route planning. Last week [/allan-grades-the-dot-mta/] I asked what faulty methodology resulted in truncating the B4 at Coney Island Hospital on weekends, middays and evenings when service was cutback in 2010. The original plan
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Everyone here at the Sheepshead Bites offices has been staring at this hypnotic video we found of a simulated B Train running express from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach in a virtual environment. For those wondering what you’re looking at, it’s not footage of a hijacked subway via
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CORRECTION (5/30/2012 @ 11:14 a.m.): Looks like our source was flat out wrong on this one. We just got a call from Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo, who told us that this is not part of the MTA track work as we originally stated, but rather
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Source: Roosevelt IslanderTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: If you do not have an unlimited pass and there are insufficient funds on your MetroCard, do not attempt to pay your bus fare by combining two cards. The MTA will deduct the remaining amount from the first card and a full fare from
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UPDATE: (3:25 p.m.): From Notify NYC: > All regular service has resumed on the B, D and Q trains after this morning’s derailment of a work train just north of the Dekalb Avenue station in Brooklyn. Expect residual delays. UPDATE (9:38 a.m.): Downtown [Q] train