MTA officials plan to cut subway service on Mondays and Fridays starting in June — and bulk up weekend service on a few lines.
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The shift, announced during an MTA meeting on Monday, marks the most significant adjustment to subway schedules since ridership began to rebound from the pandemic, which decimated mass transit usage in and around New York. The MTA announced “strategic reductions” to service along the 1, 6, 7, E, F, L, and Q lines on Mondays and Fridays. Rush hour service on the A and C lines will begin earlier on weekdays. At a committee hearing Monday, NYC Transit President Richard Davey said riders would only wait between three and 30 seconds more than they usually do for trains those days.
Trains on those lines currently run about every 10 minutes on weekends. The added service would shave down wait times between trains by about two minutes, officials said.The move comes months after the agency appointed its first ‘weekend czar’, amid ongoing complaints about miserable"Data has really driven this,” Davey said at the hearing. "I think the changes reflect what our customers are asking for: more weekend service proportional to pre-COVID.
Straphangers have been slow to return to the subways post-pandemic, with 3.7 million riders last Wednesday, about 64% of a comparable day in 2019,
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