by Emma Davey The G train shutdown might be a little less of a nightmare with the MTA’s announcement that the project has earned its own czar (and yes, that’s his official title).
Meet Hugo Zamora, an MTA employee with decades of experience, who will oversee customer satisfaction with the upcoming shutdown.Â
MTA officials, alongside Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, announced his appointment at a recent press conference.Â
“We’re working hard every day to address the critical state of…
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Has there ever been an explanation as to why this heavily used line has such a short line of cars? It is ridiculous.
Basically all comes down to budget cuts. The G used to run from Smith 9th all the way to continental avenue in forest hills but that all stopped around 2010 I believe so they took away two cars in the front and two from the back bc they felt less people were going to use them but that’s before Greenpoint blew up and became the Disney land that it is today. Be grateful bc it used to have 4 cars and was run by the older train models whereas they added one car bringing total to 5 and it’s a more modern model. Hope this helps but yea MTA can go kick rocks and fall into a burning dumpster fire any day of the way!
This G train shut down is a joke. It is just another pay day for some third party contractor hired out by the MTA. Several years after Sandy the G was shut down and we used buses, it really was not so bad but I could not help think you mean all these years later the MTA is still doing “Sandy” repairs and now this. You can put lipstick on a pig and it is still a pig.