No one really likes the E or the G |
| Published: December 24, 2007, 2:49 am |
| Tags: rider report cards |
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It’s grade time, baby! After a few weeks of silence and missing grades for the Q and W the MTA issued some Rider Report Cards on Friday. The E and the G, the train everyone loves to the hate, both received their results, and they both landed D-pluses. That’s pretty sad. Let’s start with the G because it’s way more interesting. The G runs from Smith-Ninth Streets in Brooklyn to Court Square in Queens. It used to run all the way out to the 71st Ave. in Forest Hills, but the train will no longer head that far into Queens when the service additions go into place next year. The riders of the G, the only non-shuttle subway to avoid Manhattan, don’t smile upon it. They term it the Ghost train because it never shows up, and it even has its own community organization devoted to Saving the G Tran. In fact, most riders were expecting it to receive an F. They will be sorely disappointed to hear this news. So what did the riders think of the G? The Top Ten [ Full article ] |
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