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I live in NYC but do not use the L, I assume this means the repairs are going to take 3 times as long as they are losing 5 days a week to work on them.

tashoecraft 8y ago
I use the L every day and I'm mixed about it. The L is already the fastest and most on time train in the city. It going down would be a massive inconvenience for me, but I want the city to take steps to improving the subway infrastructure. Backing down now just to get some votes is just kicking the can down the road to another generation to deal with
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rtkwe 8y ago
As with most thing NYC transit it's a mix. It would have been a huge disruption to people travelling into the city doubling commute times. On the other hand not shutting down the line means very important repairs have to be jammed into nights and weekends. Some repairs just won't be possible within that time so it'll have to get fixed later when the damage may have worsened.
psychometry 8y ago
I wonder if they could just run it during rush hour on weekdays, which would open up the middle of the day and nighttime for more work.
- magic_beans 8y ago
  If you think New Yorkers don't need the subway after 9am or at night, you're deeply mistaken.
  - nkozyra 8y ago
    Well that isn't the suggestion; the L is obviously busiest during rush hour.
  - ceejayoz 8y ago
    During the day would be disastrous, but doing as much work as possible from 1-5am (on a line at a time, not all of them) might work. Ridership and road traffic is low enough at that time to make replacement with buses feasible. London does this, IIRC.
    - nicoburns 8y ago
      Yep, and it's mostly a non-issue. It might take you a little longer to travel at that time, but there are buses that will get you anywhere you need to go (and it's partly mitigated by the fact that the roads are empty at that time of night).
paddy_m 8y ago
It's worse than that. They have to setup a job site every Friday night and break it down on Sunday night. Think about doing a craft/construction project in your house when you don't have a dedicated workspace, most of the time is setting up your workspace.
mattynice 8y ago
From reading all two minutes of the article: > The new plan could be completed in 15 to 20 months
nkozyra 8y ago
Seems like it will effectively render the L mostly unusable and extend the project time. It's a desperate gesture to commuters who were left with limited options for the shutdown. It's a really nice train to ride day-to-day, luckily I can walk to work door-to-door in an hour, but when I think about others' situations it's truly going to be an insane inconvenience.
DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
But there will be way less work to do with the new plan. The old plan was to totally gut the tunnel, the new one is to hang replacement cables and patch the concrete only where needed.

tashoecraft 8y ago

I use the L every day and I'm mixed about it. The L is already the fastest and most on time train in the city. It going down would be a massive inconvenience for me, but I want the city to take steps to improving the subway infrastructure. Backing down now just to get some votes is just kicking the can down the road to another generation to deal with

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rtkwe 8y ago

As with most thing NYC transit it's a mix. It would have been a huge disruption to people travelling into the city doubling commute times. On the other hand not shutting down the line means very important repairs have to be jammed into nights and weekends. Some repairs just won't be possible within that time so it'll have to get fixed later when the damage may have worsened.

psychometry 8y ago

I wonder if they could just run it during rush hour on weekdays, which would open up the middle of the day and nighttime for more work.

magic_beans 8y ago
If you think New Yorkers don't need the subway after 9am or at night, you're deeply mistaken.
- nkozyra 8y ago
  Well that isn't the suggestion; the L is obviously busiest during rush hour.
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  During the day would be disastrous, but doing as much work as possible from 1-5am (on a line at a time, not all of them) might work. Ridership and road traffic is low enough at that time to make replacement with buses feasible. London does this, IIRC.
  - nicoburns 8y ago
    Yep, and it's mostly a non-issue. It might take you a little longer to travel at that time, but there are buses that will get you anywhere you need to go (and it's partly mitigated by the fact that the roads are empty at that time of night).

paddy_m 8y ago

It's worse than that. They have to setup a job site every Friday night and break it down on Sunday night. Think about doing a craft/construction project in your house when you don't have a dedicated workspace, most of the time is setting up your workspace.

mattynice 8y ago

From reading all two minutes of the article: > The new plan could be completed in 15 to 20 months

nkozyra 8y ago

Seems like it will effectively render the L mostly unusable and extend the project time. It's a desperate gesture to commuters who were left with limited options for the shutdown. It's a really nice train to ride day-to-day, luckily I can walk to work door-to-door in an hour, but when I think about others' situations it's truly going to be an insane inconvenience.

DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago

But there will be way less work to do with the new plan. The old plan was to totally gut the tunnel, the new one is to hang replacement cables and patch the concrete only where needed.