I’ve lived in New York City for some time now.
In recent years, I have lived in The Lower East Side in Manhattan, and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
What I have noticed city-wide is that trains that used to run every 7 minutes, run every 12 or more minutes now.
Also, train service at night is now abysmal, with trains sometimes coming every 25 minutes or longer even.
And don’t even get me started on buses that cross Brooklyn where trains don’t exist. They never come when they say they’re coming. And a bus that says on Google Maps will come every 7 minutes, really comes every 30 minutes. The buses in Brooklyn are so bad that some routes even have short buses run by local churches that supplement the routes to create more consistent transit for their parishioners.
And weekend service is abysmal all around. Every train feels like rush hour on the weekends as they shut most trains down. I live at the Prospect Park stop in Brooklyn, which has a B train, a Q train, and a Shuttle train to other stations nearby. Both the B and Q trains were shut down all weekend, this weekend. That seems to be the norm most weekends now. One commute this weekend which usually takes me one train during the week, took me four separate trains. And I made none of my transfers on time as crowded trains filled…
