Well, we got screwed by the F-train last weekend.
Hepcat and his mom (visiting from California) took the F train home from the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday and ended up on a shuttle bus from Jay Street Boro Hall. And we thought the shuttle bus thing was over. So did the Brooklyn Paper:
Shuttle busses replaced regular F train service again this weekend —
and a “screw-up” by the Metropolitan Transit Agency left Brooklyn
straphangers frustrated and confused.
and a “screw-up” by the Metropolitan Transit Agency left Brooklyn
straphangers frustrated and confused.
So what happened? The Brooklyn Paper spoke to an agency spokesman, who was willing to take the blame.
“I screwed up,” the agency’s spokesman Charles Seaton told The
Brooklyn Paper on Monday. Seaton was the official who had originally
said that the ongoing track work on the elevated portion of the line
between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens would no longer require the use
of shuttle busses.
Brooklyn Paper on Monday. Seaton was the official who had originally
said that the ongoing track work on the elevated portion of the line
between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens would no longer require the use
of shuttle busses.
The humble admission of guilt did come with some caveat: Seaton said
commuters could have learned about the service interruption on the
MTA’s Web site, in stations or the popular MTA podcast “TransitTrax.”
According to the MTA’s online service advisory schedule: there will be no shuttles this
weekend. Let's hope they mean it this time!
If you rely on something more reliable than the Brooklyn Paper for news, you’d know that the shuttle buses were scheduled for last weekend a long time ago and not this weekend. Maybe check the MTA’s site instead of Gersh’s ridiculous paper or read the signs. If your husband didn’t know about the shuttle buses by Sunday morning, I have to assume he’s not the most observant of subway riders.