MTR 300, Unfinished Repairs, Too Few Subway Cars Chop Brooklyn V-Train

Mobilizing the Region
Issue 300 January 15, 2001

Unfinished Repairs, Too Few Subway Cars Chop Brooklyn V-Train

NYC Transit officials told an irritated Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden last week that they could not extend pending V-train service along unused F-line express tracks because they don't have enough subway cars and were not done with station repairs at the Bergen Street station. A fire at Bergen Street almost two years ago has required extensive work at the station.

V service will begin once the new 63rd Street tunnel/Queens Boulevard connection and renovations of the E/F 53rd Street tunnel are done. The V will run on the old F tracks from Queens to Manhattan, but only as far south as Houston Street, adding no service to Brooklyn. The F will run on most of its old Manhattan route, but will cross between Queens and Manhattan in the 63rd Street tunnel.

Brooklyn officials also criticized NYC Transit's plan to truncate G-train service two stops into Queens to make way for the V.