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nated with buses to minimize time they
wait at lights — for shuttle buses making
R-train stops along 4th Avenue, which
they say would keep the shuttles moving
and allow for minimal disruption to
Ridgeites’ commute.
Those points were largely echoed by
Borough President Antonio Reynoso in
an interview with NY1 Monday morning,
where he said he’ll also be lobbying the
MTA for consistent shuttle service.
“We have folks that are going to hospitals
and doing the work to protect us from
COVID and so forth,” Reynoso told NY1’s
Pat Kiernan. “To have them have to wait
too long or not have a consistent schedule
is not what we want to do. So I will be talking
to the MTA to ensure that’s something
that happens. It’s advocacy at this point,
I gotta use any influence I have to make
sure the folks in Bay Ridge are taken care
of off the R train.”
Mixed signals
The MTA’s communication with the
public at Bay Ridge subway stations does
not make clear how long the shutdowns
will be taking place: signage only indicates
that work will be taking place on
weeknights, some with no timetable,
while others only indicate that the weeknight
service outages will continue until
mid-April.
Outside Bay Ridge, at Atlantic Avenue-
Barclays Center, signage indicates that
the R will not stop overnight at the central
Brooklyn transit hub.
The MTA also only told elected officials
that the outages would go until Memorial
Day, noting that the weeknight service
would be out from 95th Street all the
way to Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan,
meaning the R would be out of service
throughout Brooklyn.
MTA Board member David Jones said
that he and other board members had
not been informed of the shutdown until
today, and that he only found out while
watching NY1.
“The board itself wasn’t informed by
text or email about this,” Jones said. “So
it’s a little upsetting to watch NY1 and
watch something rather significant announced
that the Board itself was not
aware of.”
Online, the MTA’s planned service
changes dashboard only has information
up until Sunday, April 24; for weeknights,
the dashboard says service is suspended
between Whitehall and 95th, while starting
on April 16, weekend service would be
suspended between 36th and 95th.
MTA spokespersons did not respond to
requests for comment by press time.
Two years into the pandemic, as city officials
seek to remove COVID restrictions
and resume life as normal, subway ridership
remains a constant reminder of how
things have changed. Over 3.2 million people
rode the subway on March 24, the latest
day when MTA ridership data is available;
that’s still just 55.5 percent of the over 5.7
million people that rode on a comparable
“pre-pandemic” day, the MTA says.
Any mishaps, conundrums, and bunglings
the MTA makes during the R train
shutdown, such as the communication
breakdown prior to its commencement
leaving riders confused, could have rolling
impacts on the subway’s recovery,
Gounardes said.
“We should be doing everything we
can to be making it as easy as possible
for people to get back into the subway system
and get back into using mass transit,”
Gounardes said. “Any obstacles or unnecessary
delays that prevent people or deter
people from using the system will only set
the system back further.”
Additional reporting by Kevin Duggan
Sen. Andrew Gounardes joined by Councilmember Justin Brannan at a rally for improved shuttle bus
service during the R-train overnight shutdown on March 27, 2022. Office of Sen. Andrew Gounardes
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