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New York City Transit is proposing an earlier start to weekday A/C express/local rush hour service to reflect post-COVID morning rush hour patterns.
By Forum Staff
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit on Monday announced targeted service adjustments coming to subway schedules in June that better reflect post-COVID travel patterns. The New York City subway will reallocate scheduled service to better serve periods of higher ridership by increasing scheduled trips on the weekends and by modifying Monday and Friday scheduled service, where ridership recovery has shown to be the slowest.
The changes will add scheduled trips to the G, J, and M lines on weekends, improving headways by approximately two minutes. These three lines are used by Brooklyn and Queens riders to transfer to other subway lines and have longer waiting time between trains on the weekends than many other lines.
New York City Transit is also proposing an earlier start to weekday A/C express/local rush hour service to reflect post-COVID morning rush hour patterns. Manhattan-bound A express service will commence one trip earlier during the early morning rush hour to help riders in eastern Queens and the Rockaways. To complement the early start to A express service, one rush hour C trip will be shifted earlier in the morning.
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According to the MTA, the targeted service adjustments coming to subway schedules in June better reflect post-COVID travel patterns.
To make these additional scheduled trips possible, New York City Transit will make strategic reductions to scheduled trips on Mondays and Fridays on the 1, 6, 7, E, F, L and Q lines. Subway ridership overall has been consistently lower on Mondays and Fridays than on mid-week days, reflecting the growing trend of hybrid office work.
The changes are expected to go into effect in June 2023.
“We continually analyze ridership patterns to better serve riders,” said New York City Transit President Richard Davey. “These adjustments reflect higher ridership recovery on the weekends, and lower relative ridership on Mondays and Fridays in the post-COVID hybrid work era. As riders continue to return to mass transit and patterns change, New York City Transit will adapt service accordingly as we strive to provide faster, cleaner and safer rides.”
