Snowstorm Shut Downs

[Sea Beach]

Posted: 01/27/2011 2:04AM

 

MTA Service Notice

 

Due to ongoing inclement weather:

 

There is no and train service between the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn and the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in both directions. Trains are being detoured to Bay Ridge-95th St.

 

There is no train service between the Prospect Park Station and the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in both directions.

 

There is no train service between the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station and the Lexington Avenue -59th Street Station in both directions. (Most likely are being sent to Forest Hills)

 

There is no train service between the Jamaica Center/ Parsons/ Archer Station and the Broad Street Station in both directions.

 

There is no train service between the Church Avenue Station and the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in both directions.

 

There is no train service between the Bergen Street Station and the Church Avenue Station in both directions.

 

There is no shuttle train service between the Franklin Avenue Station and the Prospect Park Station in both directions at this time.

 

There is no shuttle train service between the Broad Channel Station and the Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street Station in both directions at this time.

 

There is no train service between the Euclid Avenue Station and the Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard Station/ Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue Station/ Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street Station in both directions.

[Nova RTS 9147]

Apparently service has been restored from Marcy to Parson, but I wouldn't put too much faith in the reliability of service.

 

LIRR service is also suspended system-wide. It's just getting worse and worse.

[Messino]

Just got back in. J train is running both ways.

[EE Broadway Local]

As snow fell and accumulated last night, passengers stranded on an train stalled at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue for approximately four hours, commandeered a second train which was also stalled - and which was heated - to stay warm, but against the wishes of the M.T.A. and the NYPD.

 

The night from heck began around Midnight when about 101 riders boarded a Downtown-bound (Brooklyn-bound) train at 59th Street-Columbus Circle in Manhattan. The train made it to 36th Street in Sunset Park where confusion began to reign.

 

The C/R told the train passengers that the train was going on the train tracks and the riders would have to get off and wait for another train (via The West End).

 

Instead, an train came and took riders to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. There, the C/R told passengers they'd have to double-back.

 

On the way to Coney Island from 36th Street, there was approximately an hour and a half of delays.

 

The riders finally reached Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue around 2:00am only to learn from personnel that train service was shuttered due the snow and the riders now had to make alternate travel arrangements. Of course, by that point, the M.T.A. had temporarily suspended bus service throughout the city.

 

Story and photos from The Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/local/brooklyn/stranded_subway_passengers_commandeer_LJJJBVjC8mCiZfTCb7fkfL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

[553 Bridgeton]

This is really shaping up for be another historic winter.

[EE Broadway Local]

It kind of seems that way. Right after the December 26th Blizzard, we get an Arizona Mini-Blizzard and snowflakes/flurries in the Phoenix suburbs and a couple of days of awesome cold.

[2 Train Master]

Eh...Another storm is on the way for Mid-week!