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Re: Overnight (Q) train service will make local stops in Manhattan (Canal - 57 Sts); 12/2014 |
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Posted by Michael549 on Wed Apr 23 15:20:12 2014, in response to Re: Overnight (Q) train service will make local stops in Manhattan (Canal - 57 Sts); 12/2014, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Wed Apr 23 13:23:31 2014. Partially incorrect. Overnight 4 service was always local. overnight 6 trains were extended from 125th Street to Brooklyn Bridge.---------- Partially Incorrect. Overnight #4 was a full-time express in Manhattan with the opening (about 1918) of the Lexington Avenue line until 1979. After 1979 only did the #4 trains became the only midnight hour local, otherwise all #6 trains were the full-time locals on Lexington Avenue. From 1979 to 1999, did the #6 midnight hour Bronx shuttle run - between 125th Street and Pelham Bay Park. In the July 1983 the #2, #3, #4 and #5 routes switched their Brooklyn terminals, and the late 1970's saw the #5 only traveling to Brooklyn during the rush hours. The 20 year operation of the #6 midnight shuttle operation was severely hated by #6 Bronx riders. Mayor Rudy G. during a very bad winter had the MTA restore the #6 train to full time service. (This is one of the few items on a very small list that I credit Mayor Rudy G. for.) The #6 midnight service was not "extended" it was RESTORED to its original long time historical pattern. Generally over the history of the #6 route, it traveled at all times between Brooklyn Bridge and Pelham Bay Park. Mayor Rudy G. had the MTA to RESTORE the #6 to its full-time full-route, since for that 20-year period the #4 was the only route serving the whole of the eastside of Manhattan - something that was noted by plenty of transit fans, citizens, and political folk. Mike |
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