One of the subway lines in Brooklyn will not work on weekends until the end of the year
'21.09.2022'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
The F train will be out of service most of the weekend in South Brooklyn starting this Friday. This will last until 2023 as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing an upgraded signaling system along the line's southernmost corridor. Brooklyn Paper.
The weekend closure will take place between Church Avenue in Kensington and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island.
Weekend service will be closed starting at 23:45 pm Friday until 5 am Monday from this weekend until the weekend of October 14-17. After that, train traffic will be restored for two days off until November 7. And starting November 11, the weekend service will be closed until the end of 2022.
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Passengers are advised to use the relatively nearby D, N, or Q trains to reach their destination south of Church Avenue. Due to the proximity of other metro lines and buses, there will be no free bus service during the work.
The long break in service is that the MTA is installing a state-of-the-art alarm system. It will replace the existing analog signal system dating back to the Great Depression era. CBTC allows MTA operators to know the location of trains in tunnels much more accurately. This will allow trains to move faster.
MTA statistics show that the F train has a below system average on-time performance.
CBTC significantly improves the timely operation of the lines on which it is installed. The MTA notes that 7 trains improved their performance from 55,5% to 91% between March 2018 and March 2019. They installed CBTC in the winter of 2019.
The L train has been equipped with CBTC since 2012. And proudly claims the best time performance of any subway line in the system. The only exceptions are shuttles.
An MTA spokesman did not say why authorities briefed voters on the extent of the outage before informing the general public. Signage at Brooklyn F stations only indicates service consultation until October 7th.
