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Windsor Terrace gets F-d (and G’d)!

By Colin Mixson
The Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Paper / Mike McLaughlin
Big changes coming for Windsor Terrace users of the G and F trains.

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Thousands of F- and G-line commuters in Windsor Terrace will need to find a new way to get home starting on Monday when some service is eliminated to the 15th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway stations.

Next week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will temporarily eliminate Coney Island- and Church Avenue-bound service at the stations, affecting about 11,000 commuters per day.

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The service cuts will allow MTA contractors to replace tracks, signals and switches on the aging line.

The outbound F and G trains will skip the stations on the express track to Church Avenue. To access the skipped stations, customers will have to double-back.

The outage will last until the spring.

“It’s an inconvenience to people and it’s definitely going to affect peoples quality of life,” said Gary Reilly, a member of the Community Board 6 Transportation Committee. “If the MTA had some better resources, they could provide a shuttle bus to replace the services that were lost.”

The work is part of the $275.5-million restoration of the 80-year-old Culver Viaduct, an engineering marvel that carries the elevated F and G lines between Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street.

That work includes a complete shutdown of the line in both directions this weekend and next — though shuttle buses will be provided.

Brownstone Brooklynites are used to regular inconvenience — and are, generally, OK with it, Reilly said.

“This project needs to get done,” he said. “When all is said and done, not only will it be safer, but with modernized tracks and signalling, it will ultimately provide the infrastructure for a possible return of express service in the future.”

Reach reporter Colin Mixson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4514.

©2011 Community Newspaper Group

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Reader Feedback

anaabdul from cobble hill says:
Little Johnny wants to know what F'kd means.
Nov. 11, 2011, 6:42 am
pete from Windsor Terrace says:


Wasn't this all "done" like eight years ago?

Same description of project, same long detour...

Nov. 11, 2011, 6:42 am
Larry Littlefield from Windsor Terrace says:
I hope the G terminal remains at Church Avenue when the work is done, instead of terminating at Smith/9th as in the past.

That requires a few more trains and thus more cars to keep the rush hour schedule.

But it also prevents the F from getting stuck behind the G, and allows the use of the yard and crew quarters at Church Avenue as the G train headquarters. Those between Church and Smith-9th can also travel to G train destinations without changing trains.
Nov. 11, 2011, 11:44 am

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