Hope you like G train shuttles on weekends!
A report from an independent engineering consulting firm shared with MTA higher-ups concluded that several projects, including the ongoing G train signal project, are currently very behind schedule.
The project, which is typically described on platform signage as “modernizing signals,” aims to improve communication through 5G implementation for communications-based train control (frequently shortened to CBTC, which refers to the signaling). Work on CBTC prompted a summer-long…
Where are te penalties for these “design companies” and contractors who fail to provide what they promise and cause us to incur increased costs – as well as economic and travel pain & problems for so many residents and businesses all alomg the G train route? Why is no one held responsible? Why are riders left holding the bag and suffering the consequences? And now, despite the promise “benefits” of the congestion pricing tax on New Yorkers, the MTA has the gall to raise transit fares once again. What a scam. They use & abuse us as like ATM cash machine and the run off laughing to the bank.
My thoughts exactly. Glad I’m moving out of Greenpoint in the fall so I don’t have to deal with this anymore (ie use the G). It’s gotten ridiculous.
The G train has been and always will be the runt of the MTA subway system. You think the G train is bad now, you should have seen it 25 years ago.