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No L Trains Running At Night, MTA Announces
Weeknight trains stopped running this week and won't be coming back until December.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- No need to go to Manhattan. It's night time.
That was the message from the Metropolitan Transit Authority this week when it shut down L train service on weeknights between 10:45 p.m. and 5 a.m. from now until the end of November.
The MTA stopped nightly service on Monday and replaced the L trains with shuttle buses in Brooklyn and M14 service in Manhattan, according to announcement on Twitter.
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Reminder: Weeknight L service between Broadway Junction in Brooklyn and 8th Av in Manhattan ends early, at approximately 10:45 PM, depending on your station. Get the details at the station booth or check out https://t.co/EyOa8lGFu7 to plan your trip. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/8tILQkGuBo
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) October 15, 2018
Weekday afternoon commuters will also be facing longer waits until Nov. 16 as L trains will only run every 12 minutes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. between Myrtle-Wyckoff and Rockaway Parkway so that the MTA can make signal improvements, officials said.
"There’s been signage out about this for quite a while," MTA spokesperson Shams Tarek told Gothamist.
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"Right now there’s extensive maintenance work going ... so that service is as reliable as possible while the L tunnel to Manhattan is closed."
Gothamist also noted service will not be cut the nights of Halloween and Thanksgiving which means, "your drunk a-- won't need to navigate a tangled web of provisional bus routes."
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