by Kim M 
Tonight at 10:30p.m. three G train stops will go out of service for 5 weeks–Greenpoint Ave, 21st Street and Court Square. One thing on everyone’s mind is how the hell are we going to get around in this mess? Fear not people, Greenpointers has you covered. In the event you are confused or simply forgot, revisit our detailed postwhich gives the transit skinny to make your commute a wee bit…
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The G train isn’t shutting down for 5 weeks. The three stops from Greenpoint to Court Square are.
The Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street sites were also not included in the 2005 Greenpoint Williamsburg Waterfront Rezone Environmental Review FEIS transportation study chapter. They were mysteriously blank spaces on the map and yet the approval went forward. Maybe because George Klein of Greenpoint Landing sits on the UNDC with City Planning commissioner at the Time Amanda Burden (and the dude from HPD) .
“Let’s face it, right now the G train is at full capacity and the towers aren’t even built yet.”
Kim, may I suggest you read Second Avenue Sagas? It’s an excellent blog on the MTA from the straphanger’s point of view. While Ben Kabak doesn’t focus too much on the G train, he did spend some time on the Crosstown Local’s deep-dive report: “Notably, the agency continues to maintain that, despite significant growth in ridership over the past decade, overall ridership lags behind the rest of the system. This is my aforementioned chicken-and-egg problem. Ridership has grown despite infrequent service in relatively poorly maintained stations, and ridership hasn’t grown more because of the lack of connections to other lines and the long headways.”
In other words the MTA will not add more service to the G train until it’s as packed as the 4 going to a Yankees game during rush hour. Then, the agency reasons, it’ll allocate more trains. And afternoon and evening service did increase in June. You want the trains to run at full capacity — or else the MTA is wasting its money — but you also want the MTA to be flexible as ridership increases. Hope this makes sense.