The MTA has decided by June of 2017, that the V line will return to the subway system running between, Bay Ridge-95th Street to Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway in order to assist with the L train shutdown.
Thomas A. Prendergrast, alongside Mayor Bill DeBlasio & Governor Cuomo, announced the plans today and also concluded that the new R179 subway cars that were ordered for A, C, J, & Z trains, will also have some of its fleet returned to the resurrected V line.
“We need to help keep New Yorkers moving at all costs”, says Gov. Cuomo, in a live press conference at City Hall early this afternoon. Nothing publicly was made in what adjustments to schedules or services that would happen, but what was told it would run along the 4th Avenue local track follow the R line to Court Street, via J from Broad Street to Broadway Junction, & finally via the L to Rockaway Parkway.
Commuters feel relieved to hear that there is an alternate solution to help make the travel an easier one. “I think the finally the government and the MTA is finally looking into the interests of people”, says Jay Kindell a super transit enthusiast, who uses his poor photography skills and ashy hands, to capture some of the train acitivitt throughout the subway system.
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