Silver Backs Better Chinatown Subway Deal
NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office let us know last week that the Speaker has been an outspoken advocate for transportation services to mitigate the four-year disruption of normal subway service at Chinatown’s Grand Street station. In an April 5 statement, the Speaker said NYC Transit should go beyond the shuttle bus it has agreed to provide between Grand Street and Canal Street by extending a planned subway shuttle and increasing service on the M and F lines. Silver has also introduced legislation to require NYC Transit to hold hearings for service changes lasting longer than six months. Transit declined to hold hearings on the changes affecting Grand Street because it labeled the disruption “temporary.”
So far, however, NYC Transit has declined to offer services other than the Canal Street bus and a subway shuttle between Grand St. and Broadway-Lafayette.
