No Q/B on September weekends

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

If you are expecting friends to join you for a stroll along Cortelyou during the 33rd Flatbush Frolic, be sure to treat them, as getting here will not be easy. The MTA is shutting down all subway access between Prospect Park and Stillwell Avenue, operating shuttle busses instead, CB14 informs:

This is to inform you that MTA NYC Transit will be operating shuttle buses along the Brighton B/Q subway line from Prospect Park to Stillwell Avenue during three upcoming weekends, due to the ongoing station rehabilition projects from Newkirk Avenue to Kings Highway along the line. Shuttle buses will service all stations between Prospect Park and Stillwell Avenue, and NYC Transit personnel will be available to assist our customers in utilizing the alternate service.  Posters will be placed at each affected station in advance of each weekend, and updated information will be available on our website at www.mta.info

The weekends when shuttle buses will replace trains (from 12:01 a.m. Saturdays through 5:00 a.m. Mondays are:

September 11-13
September 25-27
October 2-4 (this is currently a backup weekend and will be needed only if all work is not completed during the first two weekends)

- Liena

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  • kdarby

    frustrating !

  • J

    What will this *actually* mean? “Shuttle buses will service all stations between Prospect Park and Stillwell Avenue”

    Last time I recall shuttle buses… they ran down Ocean Avenue. Do they consider 5 blocks further east “service to all stations”?? Will that be the reality this time around too?

  • nathan

    I am with J. The shuttle busses are a disaster. It’s often faster too walk and safer too. I was dropped off at 2 Am way down Ocean after the bus skipped Church Ave. The bus made no attempt to get to the Church Ave Subway Station. The bus was late, slow and over crowded. Older people couldn’t push their way on. You might ask why they were on the subway at this hour. That would be because hours earlier they had gotten on in Manhattan where no announcements were made about the situation waiting for them in Brooklyn. We didn’t figure it out until the trains stopped at the Park. There was no one to explain or manage the process.
    Thank you for posting this warning.

  • CW

    Recently when they’ve replaced the F with shuttle buses its been surprisingly well managed and easy to navigate. Here’s hoping.

  • Alexandra

    I wish I’d had advance warning of this. I have out-of-town guests coming next week, and this is going to make the whole thing much less convenient.

  • eric
  • Barbara

    Still, how terrific that the MTA is serious about fixing what’s broken, and they seem to be doing a very good job. Of course, it’s too bad that vandals have already graffitied the newly repaired and painted retaining walls at the Newkirk station.

  • Katie

    Et tu, Q train? You were my only hope….

  • Margo

    I just wish these crazy shuttle weekends didn’t keep happening on the days I’m hauling around suitcases! The same thing happened last year!

  • LTM

    The sign I saw on the Q train this morning said shuttle began at 9:30 pm. Might want to double check if you had planned to get some where before midnight.

  • carissa

    So, it’s normal the weekend of the 18-19? Or was that a mistake to leave that out? (I bet not, I hope not!)

    thanks!

  • Matt

    According to mta.info, service will be more or less normal on 9/18 and 9/19.

  • Zac

    Yom Kippur weekend, that’s why. The work is all being done in Orthodox neighborhoods, at Ave H, J, M and Kings Hwy.

  • carissa

    Thank you both.

  • bklynartiste

    I experienced the WORST bus transfer system ever tonite.

    Not only did the MTA start the shuttle bus tonite at 10pm, when we all got out at Prospect Park, we waited 15 mins for ONE measly bus to show up, for a group of 100 angry commuters. To make it worse, they failed to announce to the riders the bus was making LIMITED stops. When I brought this up with the driver, he said it was my fault for not looking at the bus. Excuse me??? We all saw it lit up LOCAL on the front! Any announcement?? No. Had to walk from top of Flatbush down Cortelyou.

    I’ll be taking the F for the next 3 weekends. Because the Q does NOT know how to make their shuttle buses work. At least when the F had shuttles, I got around faster than when the F was running.

  • Liz

    Everything bklynartiste says is true. I left the city before 10:00 tonight, and by the time the Q got to Brooklyn they were making announcements that “there will be absolutely no Q service between Prospect Park and Coney Island this weekend,” as if it were a warning about Saturday and Sunday service (the normal practice for these shuttle bus arrangements). Not until we were past Atlantic Avenue, the last convenient transfer point to other trains, was it made clear that, yes, kids, this affects the train you’re on NOW.

    When we all got out, there was indeed a 15-minute wait for a single bus. I waited as four more buses came and either filled up and left or were making express stops only – though only two of these buses even bothered to put up signs indicating whether they were express or local.

    I was coming from work, and I was tired, hungry and carrying two bags. Even so I wondered whether I wouldn’t have gotten home both quicker and more happily if I’d just walked from Prospect Park to Cortelyou Road. More people were getting off the trains with new no buses in sight, and finally, feeling like I was about to blow a gasket from rage, I gave up and got on a Manhattan-bound Q, transferred to the R at Atlantic and finally made it to a Coney Island-bound F train. It added a full hour onto my commute.

    The stupidity of it was mind-boggling. If they were going to stop normal service early, WHY didn’t they have a platoon of buses waiting? What would have been so hard about that?

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