NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – L train service disruptions are set to begin on Friday night.
Starting at 10 p.m., commuters can expect L trains to run every 20 minutes between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The service cuts will be in effect weekends from 10 p.m. Fridays to 5 a.m. Mondays, and also 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weeknights.
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Workers will patch and rewire the tunnel that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy and is set to finish mid 2020.
Initially, the MTA planned to take the same approach with L train tunnel as they did with the R train’s Montague Street tunnel in 2013, which runs from Whitehall Street in Manhattan to Montague Street in Brooklyn, The Daily News reports.
That shutdown caused 14 months of service disruptions as crews needed to demolish and replaced an entire set of bench walls.“This is a more surgical solution,” said Mark Roche, one of the heads of the project, calling the new procedure "fine tuned.”The MTA will increase G and M train service in order to offset the service cuts.