MTA conducts COVID-delayed repairs until more complete project can happen in 2021

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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced track maintenance on the 6 Avenue express lines between 59^th Street-Columbus Circle and 42^nd Street-Bryant Park to ensure reliability until the tracks can be replaced in 2021. For two weekends in November south of West 4^th Street, D trains will stop at F stations and F trains will stop at D stations.

Track replacement on the lines, which was originally scheduled for Spring 2020, was postponed to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the meantime, crews will repair and replace new track components including plates, rails and blocks between 59^th Street-Columbus Circle and 7 Avenue-53^rd Street. Track renewal work also is being performed between the 42^nd Street-Bryant Park and 47^th-50^th streets-Rockefeller Center stations.

The repairs are being done during a period of low subway ridership and during the ongoing overnight subway shutdown between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., minimizing the disruption of the work and impacting as few riders as possible.

“Performing regular track maintenance is critical to having a modern, more reliable and safe system for decades to come,” said NYC Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg. “I want to thank our riders for their patience while we work to improve the system and hope that they find our new Live Subway Map helpful as they navigate these changes.”

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