Starting next month, some late night subway riders will need to find alternate forms of transportation, the MTA announced Monday.
The MTA’s Fastrack program, which temporality suspends parts of the subway from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weeknights for track, tunnel and station maintenance, will affect several lines in Queens and other parts of the city.
Each of the following corridors will shut down for four consecutive weeknights:
- “N,” “Q” and “R” lines south of Queensboro Plaza to Court Street in Brooklyn
- “E,” “F,” “M” and “R” lines between 5th Avenue/53rd Street in Manhattan and Roosevelt Avenue
- “A” line between 168th Street and 207th Street in Upper Manhattan
- “D” line between 161st Street and 205th Street in the Bronx
- “6” line between 45th Street and 100th Street in Manhttan
- “4” and “5″ lines between 45th Street and 100th Street in Manhattan
The first corridor slated for maintenance is the “D” line in the Bronx on January 14, followed by the N,” “Q” and “R” trains south of Queensboro Plaza to Court Street on January 28.
The MTA decided to continue with the Fastrack program, which began last January, because of its increase in productivity, and reduction in track fires, delays and incidents.
“Over the past year we have found this to be an extremely effective way to maintain a subway system that operates around the clock, seven days a week,” said New York City Transit President Thomas Prendergast. “We have seen concrete benefits in the way the system is being maintained through Fastrack and we are now ready to roll it out to other line segments.”
