October 24, 2005
Weekend subway hassles: 760 diversions this year
The New York Times today crunches some numbers to quantify the hassles of taking the subways on weekends amid persistent construction projects. An analysis by The New York Times shows that there have been about 760 service changes, including station closings, so far this year, and reveals that no weekend has been immune. The least troublesome weekend was March 12-13, which had two diversions scheduled. The most inconvenient was Oct. 8-9, when 33 diversions were scheduled. The N line had experienced the most diversions - at least 72, or nearly 10 percent of the total. It was followed by the D, with 63 diversions.
In nearly 100 instances, riders were instructed to take shuttle buses when their normal trains were canceled. This past weekend, 19 of the city's 26 lines had some sort of diversion. The only ones spared were the three shuttles, and the B, V, W and Z trains, which never run on weekends.
 No word on whether weekends will get worse before they get better, but the story does note that 11,800 people have subscribed to the MTA's free weekly service advisory e-mail since it launched in May. (You can also see the service advisories online.)
The story doesn't mention it, but a similiar free weekly e-mail is offered by the Straphangers Campaign, and the publicly funded Trips123 is still working on a paid-subscriber system that would deliver real-time transit alerts to your e-mail or mobile device.
Earlier: MTA may cut weekend subway fare to $1 for holidays
Beware subway construction
Trips123 to offer e-mail notice of transit snafus
Long Island Rail Road sending e-mail service alerts
October 24, 2005 07:45 AM in Transportology
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