MTA Makes Your Weekends Less of A Headache With New Weekender Map

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The secret of the NYC subway used to be weekend construction. Because no one rode the subway on Saturdays and Sundays, the illusion that it ran unobstructed 24/7 was maintained for decades. Conveniently, it also meant the MTA didn’t have to bother telling people what the hell they were doing and how it would change the way the subways ran.

But the MTA didn’t account for the unprecedented rise in hipsters, yuppies and other affluent youth movements that poured into Brooklyn and other boroughs this past decade. This resulted in a whole breed of people who actually commute to and from the city on weekends -- sometimes even between Brooklyn and Queens(!). And they demand to know how the MTA’s “planned service changes” are going to affect the trip to Barcade that they and their Manhattan friends will be making on Saturday.

For them, the MTA has created The Weekender, a subway map specifically for the weekends, detailing service changes on each line and at each station.

That’s right: harness the power of the Weekender and you’ll never show up late to another Improv Anywhere event because you didn’t know the F was being diverted to the G-line on Sundays between noon and 1:15pm.

The Weekender map will take over the front page of MTA.info on weekends. Be sure to check it before getting on the subway -- your iPhone doesn’t get service down there -- unless of course you're at Nevins Street -- and you’ll be stuck having to actually listen for announcements and read those bulletins posted on the turnstiles.