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COURIER L 14 IFE, AUGUST 21-27, 2020
MTA: F train
improvements
roll forward
Repair work to the F train tunnel is underway.
File photo by Aidan Graham
BY MARK HALLUM
Despite an uncertain
fi nancial future amid
the pandemic, the Metropolitan
Transportation
Authority is moving
ahead with a number of
improvement projects
— including their multimillion
dollar F train
repairs, which will modernize
infrastructure
along the popular line in
Brooklyn.
The agency has been
working to improve the
F train with new signaling
in the last month,
which includes a partial
closure of the Rutgers
Tube between Downtown
Brooklyn and Manhattan
— the 11th and fi -
nal MTA tunnel under a
major body of water to be
rebuilt after damage sustained
from Superstorm
Sandy.
“We are committed to
adding modernized signals
and providing the
best service possible for
our customers in Brooklyn,”
said Janno Lieber,
Chief Development Offi -
cer at the MTA. “It is important
that this project,
and projects like it, have
continued safely during
the COVID-19 pandemic.”
With the F train repairs
comes an additional
service change,
the MTA said. For one
week in August and September,
F trains will
only operate express between
18th Avenue and
Avenue X in Brooklyn
due to the replacement
of what the MTA says
are 70-year-old signals
between Church Avenue
and Coney Island with
Communications Based
Train Control (CBTC)
along with the effort to
replace the Kings Highway
Interlocking system,
which has been underway
since 2017.
Work on the Rutgers
Tube is expected to follow
the blueprint of how
the state addressed the
Canarsie Tunnel on the
L train that left thousands
of commuters uncertain
about the future
of their daily lives and
commutes. The state
will again opt for a plan
from Cornell University
to coat the bench-walls
of the tunnels with fi berreinforced
polymers during
overnight and weekend
schedules.
From August 2020 to
March 2021, the MTA
plans to reroute service
on the F line overnight to
the C train between Jay
Street-MetroTech and
West 4th Street in Manhattan,
and along the E
line from West 4th Street
to 36th Street in Queens.
More info on planned
service changes resulting
from train repairs can be
found at www.mta.info/
planned-service-changes
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