Service Diversions 05-10-12
Riders can now get a jump start on planning their weekend as I have updated the Service Diversions with the latest work for this weekend, next week & beyond in some cases. The next entry update will be Monday at 5:01 AM when the weekend work is wrapped up. However the page will be updated as diversions change or end.
If I see anything interesting or noteworthy, I will post it on Twitter so follow @TransitBlogger which you can easily do by clicking the button in the sidebar.
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Service Alert For Cino de Mayo Celebration
This upcoming Sunday, a Cinco de Mayo celebration will be taking place in Flushing Meadows Park. MTA NYC Transit has issued a service advisory for the celebration via press release:
With celebrations for Cinco de Mayo planned for Sunday, May 13, MTA New York City Transit is the best way to get to Queens’ Flushing Meadows Park and back home again. The celebration is scheduled to be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and heavy ridership is expected.
Flushing-bound 7 trains will operate express from 74th Street/Broadway to Mets-Willets Point. Manhattan-bound 7 trains will operate on a normal Sunday schedule. Mets-Willets Point and 111th Street stations will be most affected by crowds.
Customers should avoid lines at the stations by buying their MetroCards in advance. Also, riders should remember to spread out along the entire length of the platform in order to avoid overcrowding in one area
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Delays Galore!
Exactly a week ago today, I had some business to handle in the Upper East Side. I make my way down to the uptown platform at 68th Street when I notice an extremely large amount of people waiting for the train. While I know how crowded the Lexington Ave stations can be, this had the makings of delays all around.
My initial vibe was correct as I take a look at the station info clock which showed the next two uptown 
trains were 8 & 11 minutes away respectively. This is completely out of whack especially going into 7PM on a weeknight. Eventually a message came across station delays were happening up & down the line due to issues at Parkchester. Eventually the train came albeit packed even above the typical standards one expects along this corridor. If I only knew this was a sign of things to come….
Fast forward about 2 hours later when I hop the from the Upper East Side & make my way down to Bleecker St to transfer to a Brooklyn-bound 
. The ride down to Bleecker was fine. I make my way down to the platform for the & that is where the adventure began.
Around this time of night, the runs approximately every 10 minutes or so. However I only wish it had come that fast. While I waited, a total of 9 (yes, you read that correctly!) trains passed before the F showed up.
They included 3 
‘s (2 Brooklyn-bound & 1 Manhattan-bound), 2 
‘s (1 Brooklyn-bound & 1 Bronx-bound), 2 Queens-bound ‘s, & 3 
‘s (2 Metropolitan-Ave bound & 1 Forest Hills-bound). A 10th train which was a Bronx-bound showed up as my train arrived.
What frustrates me the most was not the actual delay itself but the fact that no announcement was never made as to what was going on. This is completely ridiculous considering the majority of people in that station were waiting for the .
In this day & age, it is completely unacceptable that we were not informed as to what was going on. Once I got to my destination, I immediately checked Twitter to see if something was posted about what happened & not one single thing. After seeing this, I became even more infuriated & rightfully so.
MTA going your way…. not on this night, that is for sure. What a joke!
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Update 05-08-12
I apologize for the lack of entries outside of service diversions of late. As some of you know, I run various businesses including a 24×7 commercial-free online radio station that has kept me real busy of late. Honestly it will be doing so for the foreseeable future but I will not abandon Transit Blogger since it means so much to me.
The good news is I will have a new entry in the coming minutes which is a personal commuting story, the type that this blog was originally created & centered around!
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Service Diversions 05-07-12
I have just updated the Service Diversions by removing the weekend work that just wrapped up.
As always, if I see or hear anything interesting or worth noting, I will tweet about it so follow @TransitBlogger or by clicking the button in the sidebar.
Have a wonderful week & I promise to have some fresh entries in the next couple of days. Don’t forget to check out Surge FM!
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