MTA to Queens: Happy New Year, forget about your precious 7 train (reprise)

Do you have the letter to Jay Walder that is referenced in the media advisory?

it is tough for the lic residents with the 7 as their only option, sux actually. only to get worse with hunters point south increasing crowding. lucky options are a short walk away with e/v/n/r/g servicing most lic residents quite fine, but a tough walk for the vernon

It’s more like 15-20 from the waterfront if you are not a speedwalker, and that’s actually quite long in the winter.

Every subway line gets worked on. Whether in Queens, NYC, the Bronx or Brooklyn. Sometimes it’s the summer or the winter.

At least they don’t do it when the Mets are playing or the U.S. Open is around.

Surely those of you that can spring $2-3K for rent/mortgage can throw down a measly couple of hundred bucks more a month and own a car. Subway, hah.

While I appreciate the effort, Van Bramer seems to be following in Gioas footsteps. What good is holding a press conference going to do. Doesn’t being an elected offical have any power? I can hold a press conference or a rally. Get on the phone and start knocking heads and making noise until the problem is addressed.

The local businesses could exploit the subway shutdown by offering specials or discounts during the period. Why not generate a little excitement during a dreary No. 7-less winter weekend?

Why do businesses have to give discounts?? People in this neighborhood wanted these places and still want more… now you want discounts too!!

the problem is not that we have no place to go for a drink, for crying out loud! it’s that some of us may have to work on a weekend. now my 10 minute commute is more than an hour.

or possibly some of us dont want to pay the outrageous grocery prices and maybe want to go to a real grocery store for the week’s shopping. or I might want to hang curtains, paint a wall, or something like that. the nearest hardware store is a subway ride away.

I’ve lived in queens for 8 years now, they do this every winter for months at a time. let that happen on a train going out to prospect heights; people would lose their minds.

11, I disagree. Gioia was a no-show for many issues that affected small business and commuters. A conference can bring wider attention so that MTA becomes aware that they are being held accountable to the public.

The 7 train has to be worked on and that’s the final answer. We can protest and rally all we want, but the work will get done. It would be great if they ran a shuttle to grand central, but how practical is that for the city? We have to grin and bare it. This should be only problems we have down here.

If OHP was successful in mitigating the diesel engine drone from the LIRR tracks, then surely our governing agents can get us a measly shuttle to Grand Central. No? Maybe OHP should write them a letter instead. Clearly they are more successful with the MTA.

Exactly! A measly bus. All that cryin in the wind is going to do nothing. I agree, get on the phone and knocks some heads together!!

The rally was a photo op for our local politicians. Thats it!! We need a protest!!

You got that right #27! Except for a few, it was the same people as last year nodding their heads and nothing gets done. If we could just get a shuttle bus to Grand Central, I think most people would be satisfied.

The rally was a protest. Where were you #11 and #27? They needed bodies and obviously yours wasn’t one of them. Where you whining and being negative on liqcity perhaps?

I had a music studio at 1063 Jackson and used to commute there from midtown. The 7 train issue has a been a persistent one with many stories. One was that they had hired a private contractor to do the signal light system, they f*&ked it up and apparently it all had to be redone by the MTA. I wonder what the excuse is this time?

How come the city has no control over the city public transit system? That makes no sense at all. It’s like the MTA has us all hostage.