The MTA has announced that starting today there will be more service on the G line! It’s the weekday they’re talking about, not the weekend, but hey, it’s a start.

What does it mean to you? Trains will operate every 8 minutes instead of every 10 minutes between the hours of 3pm and 9pm, Monday – Friday. That works out to a 25% increase in frequency during rush hour, and into the early evening.

The upgrades were announced Sunday and praised by state Sen. Daniel Squadron, who requested the changes along with state Sen. Martin Dilan and the Riders Alliance.

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Promised L Train schedule adjustments for March

In mid February, a meeting was held at the Cubana Social Club in Williamsburg and attended by State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, and District Leaders Lincoln Restler and Linda Minucci, among others. The meeting brought together community leaders, business owners, and private citizens to discuss the recent controversy surrounding the MTA’s ongoing shutdown of the L train, a train whose weekend ridership, Squadron announced, has jumped 141% since 1998, according to stats found on the MTA website.

The shutdowns have been due, for the most part, to the implementation of the Communication Based Train Control System (CBTC), which the city has been working on for the better part of the decade, a project that was initially scheduled to be completed in 2005. While shutdowns have been the subject of much complaining and frustration among locals, a particular recent shutdown provoked Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick residents to wonder why the MTA’s project has taken seven years longer than it was supposed to, and whether the MTA cares about its ridership.

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