This summer may see the holy matrimony of two of the city’s biggest transit stories–Citi Bike and the G train. The beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens subway line will see tunnel closures for 12 weekends this year, and to compensate, the MTA is considering adding Citi Bike service to Greenpoint and Long Island City.
Unlike the initial rollout of the bike share program, which was funded entirely by Citigroup, the extension could theoretically be paid for by the MTA. “It’s an active discussion,” a source within the transit authority told the Daily News. “We recognize the G train serves an area without other subway options.”
I can feel the manufactured outrage brewing already.
The subway line that's become more useful as the punchline to a joke among transit-obsessed New Yorkers than it is as an actual train may actually be improving soon. After a full line review, the MTA will begin increasing service on the G if it can secure $700,000 in funding,…
Is it the 8th Avenue A/C/E, servicing Manhattan's ever-growing West Side? How about the L, shuttling the huddling masses out to Williamsburg and Bushwick? No, the fastest-growing subway line in the system is the lowly G Train, which gained no less than 2,000 riders every week in 2012. That's a…
According to Community Board 10 Chairwoman Henrietta Lyle, the first uptown Citi Bikes may be arriving in Harlem. Lyle told the board yesterday that two racks would be installed in the neighborhood: one at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 155th Street, the other at Lexington and 98th. Lyle questioned whether these were…