The F express is dividing Brooklyn
COURIER LIFE, J B G M ULY 26-AUG. 1, 2019 31
More than 650 scorned straphangers
signed a petition opposing
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority’s plan to run
express F trains through brownstone
Brooklyn.
Councilman Brad Lander (DPark
Slope) delivered the signatures
to transit head Andy Byford
at the MTA’s monthly board
meeting on Monday — arguing
that the scheme throws commuters
living between Cobble Hill
and Windsor Terrace under the
proverbial train in an effort to
shorten ride times for southern
Brooklynites.
“The current proposal adds
no train service whatsoever. It
simply eliminates service during
rush hour at six local stations
— some of the busiest and
most used ones on the line, stations
that already experience severe
overcrowdi ng,” Lander said
at the July 22 meeting.
The Transit Authority says
adding additional trains to make
the arrangement work is impossible
due to signal constraints
that require long spaces in between
trains.
Instead, the plan calls for four
existing local trains — two Manhattan
bound trains in the morning,
and two Coney Island-bound
trains in the evening — to be converted
to run express between Jay
Street-Metrotech and Church Avenue
stations during weekdays.
Between those stations, the express
F train would stop at Seventh
Avenue only, while bypassing
six other stations in a service
expected to debut this September.
Readers shared their thoughts
online:
Quit your bellyaching. You
should be pragmatic and realize
that this has to be done for commuting
fairness. It’s not all about you. I
applaud the MTA’s decision.
Samson from Brooklyn
Great, smart, sensible idea for
the F express. Good decisions sometimes
happen.
Sally from Slope
Makes great sense for people
living further into Brooklyn. It is
only a couple of trains that’ll pass
some Brownstone Brooklyn stops.
We can show concern for our neighbors
by affi rming this update to F
service for them.
Ro from Park Slope
While you’re never going to control
rent costs, you could defi nitely
look into whatever law allows owners
to carry a building with maintenance
and property taxes for a decade
without a tenant and not take
a bath. Coz in most every other part
of the world that’s not how things
naturally operate.
K. from ArKady
The F line used to run express.
and it was not just 2 trains each rush
hour. Try to fi gure it out MTA. the
expres tracks are there, they were
in use during the recent “renovations”.
the stations are there. you
can make a regular express run.
your proposal was borrowing from
Peter to pay Paul. Make the express
line equitable to ALL riders.
Audrey from Midwood
It’s a borough civil war and the
Culver Line is the Battle Line between
the rich North, with historical
brownstones, and the South,
with one of the longest commute
times in NYC.
The Hunkster from Bed-Stuy
If you want quicker train service,
then you should go back to
school and get a better job that pays
enough to afford to live downtown.
So tired of the whining of uneducated
moons.
Chad from Ft Greene
Just another scheme to make the
MTA’s on time #s look better than
they really are. A few may be better
off but many will be hurt by the
new schedule. de Blasio would be
proud and Cuomo will cheer.
William Leonards from Bed
STY
Power Outage
More than 2,500 Brooklynites
are still without power Tuesday
morning as a result of the weekend’s
brutal heat wave and Monday
night’s thunderstorm.
Con Edison shut off power in
parts of southern Brooklyn — including
Canarsie, Marine Park,
Mill Basin and parts of Flatbush
— around 8:30 p.m. Sunday
night, and the energy company
is still working to restore power
more than a day later.
“ConEd has restored power
to over 99 percent of the 33,000
customers affected by Sunday’s
outage in southeast Brooklyn
neighborho ods,” the energy company
said in a release Monday
night.
However, there were nearly
11,000 new outages as a result of
Monday night’s thunderstorm.
According to ConEd’s outage
map, 2,587 Brooklynites remain
powerless as of 8:15 a.m. Tuesday
morning. ConEd expects to fully
restore power in the area by 11:30
p.m. Wednesday.
“Crews continue to work
around the clock addressing the
outages as quickly as possible,”
ConEd said.
One Georgetown resident who
endured the Sunday night blackout
described a near-apocalyptic
scene of utter darkness, with
the only the visible light emanating
from car headlights and
the lights of emergency vehicles
in the distance, and the roads
pocked by car accidents — including
one at Avenue T near E.
65th Street, and another on Avenue
N near Ralph Avenue — as
traffi c signals remained unpowered
throughout the night.
“There were so many accidents,”
said Jamie Kaplan, whose
E. 73rd Street home between avenues
L and M lost power Sunday
Readers weren’t happy online:
Keep taking down single family
homes and 2 family homes to build
20 and more family structures. You
can not put 10 pounds in a 5 Pound
bag.
Law and Disorder from
Formally of Brooklyn Now N C
Where are the “good apples” I
keep hearing about?
Tyler from pps
Perhaps,these power-outages
occurred,because the local politicians
told all NYC’ers,to all to indoors?
Obviously,a lot more electrical
power was used,if we stay in
our air-conditioned abodes. Such
advise used to be,only for the very
old,the very young;and for those-in
dangerously poor health. For
the sake of my own health,I went
out both days? I supposed these
politicians,will next tell us,that
great civilizations;are created by
just-remaining safely at home,when
conditions,less than optimal?
SCR from Realityville
Simple obey an order and nothing
will happen. Today you must
approach with your fi re arm out of
the holster.
Lae and Disorder from
Formaly of brooklyn now N C
All the whining bike nazis want
speeding drivers dealt with, and
when the NYPD beats one down
they decide they hate cops more
than speeding drivers. Make up
your minds already.
Hillary from Prison
I blame Cuomo because he isn’t
allowing the power plants to expand.
He is so stuck on Offshore
Wind that he refuses to realize we
need power now. Approve the natural
gas pipeline and keep open the
nuclear plant. If Cuomo doesn’t
bend, these blackouts we soon be
routine.
Sprinkles from Brooklyn
People are going to have to relearn
how to do without cars, air
conditioning, heat, lights and electricity
if we are going to slow climate
change. We only have 12 years
folks, last night has to be the new
normal.
Elizabeth from Cherokee
Nation
The money we save on our electric
bills we could use to house and
feed all the millions of illegals that
we want here! Refugees welcome!
The US should stop going to Honduras
and snatching babies from their
mothers hands! You are allowed to
snatch the baby from the womb
though.
Ann Chilada from El Torito
Maybe this is a good thing -
these people could learn to be more
green! Maybe instead of sucking
out power to charge their precious
iPhones , they could stop the ice
caps from melting! It’s called C O 2
people!!!! So selfi sh!
Penelope from Park Slope
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