According to this article, there will be no more weekend shutdowns for the L train.

“Long-suffering L riders can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
There will be no more weekend shutdowns between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the Canarsie line, the MTA says. And there’s more good news: the long-promised information system that will give real-time arrival times of trains will be running within eight weeks.”

I just don’t buy it because in the same article, there is this:

“There will still be weeknight service outages, however, and one more planned weekend disruption in Brooklyn because of the high-tech train signal project. Brooklyn riders will also continue to have disruptions because of unrelated work on the Myrtle/Wyckoff Station.”

and this:

“The TA is waiting for the delivery of 660 new R-160 cars. Some will be deployed to the L line at the end of 2007, when the weekend and evening service disruptions are expected to continue again when all the old signals are finally removed for good.”

SO how is this “back on track” and “no more shutdowns?” I ain’t trusting what MTA said.

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