While the MTA is apologizing in advance for the large number of lines and stations out of service this weekend, the agency says it has to be this way.
explaining why three-day weekends, which typically carries fewer riders, are better than a regular weekend.Glenn Lunden, the agency’s deputy chief of rail planning, says the MTA can get 44% more track work done on holiday weekends than on a regular two-day weekend.
Track and signal work typically requires the MTA to move trains out of the area, turn off the third rail, and bring work tools and workers to the site under any circumstance. It can often take workers as much time to prepare the work site as it does to conduct the actual work.
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