Your Disappearing F/G Train: Despair, Postponed!

On Monday, I brought you, kind patrons of the 15th St-Prospect Park station, the unfortunate news that your train service was about to be majorly fucked up for the next year-plus. We laughed! (Not really. Or at all.) We cried! We wanted to hurl things at the MTA/complaining yuppies, depending which side you were on! Today I come with a ray of hope--OK, a week of stalled despair.

Anarchy was supposed to start Monday, but because of possible snow this weekend, they're being pushed off until the following Monday, January 17th. So, we've got allegedly normal service this weekend, then shuttle busses next weekend, then the no service shit next Monday. Got it? K.

Also from WNYC, here's why, according to an NYC Transit spokesman, why you peeps didn't know jack about this in advance:

"We have found that if you put it up too early, people lose sight of it," Seaton said. "It's better to keep it fresh in people’s minds." That is also why, he said, there was no advance notice of the work on the agency's website under "planned service changes" for the F and G. Still, he didn't know why signs hadn't appeared only days before a major phase of the four-year project. Signs to announce the latest disruption will go up at the stations and in subway cars by this Saturday. He said there should also be "public announcements in the system."

So, he doesn't know. Cool. Anyway, I'm sick of talking about trains and the cold. I'm going to move to Dubai and buy a fucking Mercedes or something. In other news, here's an F train sushi thing to distract you.

Photo: Face Food

15th St-Prospect Park Station: Say Goodbye to Your Trains [NO SHIT]

So, uhhhh, if you're at the 15th St-Prospect Park Station on the F/G, you might wanna be sitting down if you've been ignoring service signs lately. Thanks to our buds at Neighborhoodr, we've just learned that as of next Monday, Jan 10, you've got no Manhattan-bound F service (nor Queens G service) until May.

One more time for the cheap seats at the Windsor Terrace border: Your trains don't exist until it gets warm again.

From the MTA's site:

Beginning 5 AM Mon, Jan 10 until May 2011

15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy stations

No Manhattan-bound F or Queens-bound G service

From these stations, take a Coney Island-bound G or Church Av-bound G train to Church Av and transfer to a Manhattan-bound F or Queens-bound G train.

To these stations, take a Manhattan-bound F or Queens-bound G to 7 Av and transfer to a Church Av-bound F or Coney Island-bound F train.

Rage blackout, aynone? In the interest of dodging a hail of bullets, I won't gloat about how glad I am that I've moved stops, but Jesus fucking Christ, I'm so sorry if this is you. Like, legitimately no FIPS snark BS sorry. Commence open thread/MTA death threats/etc.

P.S. For the rest of us F-trainers, that means busses in train costumes this weekend, too, but I feel like a dick even mentioning, let alone bitching about it. 

How I Feel About the G Train: A Photo Essay

Well, that about sums it up.

What enthralling things are you all up to this weekend?  (I hope they don't involve the G train.)  Let your crazy selves loose in the comments.

One More Weekend of Subway Suck

It's Friday afternoon.  I have nothing exciting to report to you, so I am being a useful pseudo-editor in Erica's absence, and reminding you that F/G folks have no trains for one more weekend.  Sit tight, Slopers.  As bitter as I am about our fake trains, this dude who had a sharpie in the 15th Street station this morning takes the rage cake.

I leave you to enjoy your sex- and/or baby-filled weekend with this fun fact: This is what the Culver viaduct is.  Apparently its proper name is not "The place people hold obnoxious cell phone conversations/where I unnecessarily check my email before I get off about twenty-five seconds after we go back underground."

Shit My Facebook Friends Said... Was This the F Train?

Meredith, this one's for you. I just know this had to be on the F. 

"Attention tall men on the subway: your hands are at the level of my head (and face and eyes). BE MORE F***ING CAREFUL!!" 

Yesterday at 9:35 am via Facebook for Blackberry