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    • Seabeach Line To Get Total Overhaul Starting Next Year


    by on Nov 15th, 2011

    source: BK Southie

    If you take the N train you’ve probably noticed the the work being done on the two middle tracks. The old express tracks are in the process of being replaced.

    The recently revamped BK Southie is reporting that, beginning in 2012, the entire Sea Beach portion of the N line – from 8th Avenue to 86th Street – will be getting a complete overhaul. The work will include shoring up the open cut’s retaining wall, as well as a renovation of all nine stations.

    How are you preparing for transit hell?

    Are you walking distance from either the D train or F train? If not, what other alternative forms of transportation do you plan on using?

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    • Grace O’Malley

      Well I guess me and the F train will become even better friends than we already are. Nice to know that eventually, 10-15 years from now most likely given the MTA’s track record for project completion, that we will have nicely redone N train stations for the delinquent youths and jackass adults of the neighborhood to graffiti and otherwise destroy.

      Sorry to be Debbie Downer today…I will get more coffee to get my optimism pumping. Thanks for the heads up!

    • http://twitter.com/aemoreira81 Adam Moreira

      It’s only one track—the southbound express track has been disconnected for decades.

      As for the work, I have to wonder if the MTA is going to do a complete line shutdown for a month or so, or just use temporary platforms and repair 1 side at a time.

      • http://www.bksouthie.com/ Brian

        A month. Ha!

        I would assume they’ll mimic their work on the Q-line. Which is to say, the misery for commuters at any one station will drag on for a couple of years. For instance, the Coney Island-bound platforms at Avenue U and Neck Rd were closed for nearly a year. No temporary platforms. If you were coming home from work, you had to skip past those stations and go all the way to Sheepshead Bay Road, and backtrack a stop or two on the Manhattan-bound train. And when they were done with the Coney Island-bound platforms, they shut down the Manhattan-bound platforms for nearly a year.

        That said, the MTA will be experimenting with complete shutdowns of line segments – the impact for us will be a complete, 2-week shutdown of the D-train from Bay Parkway to Coney Island. I would be curious to see if that changes their thinking.