Fastrack comes to Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway subway line
From now until early Friday, Jan. 31, MTA New York City Transit is bringing Fastrack to the Eastern Parkway trunk line in Brooklyn between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Fastrack is a program in which the MTA shuts down a line for repairs during several consecutive nights. The program, introduced in early 2012, was designed to avoid line shutdowns and diversions during the busy weekends, when most repair work was performed in the past.
This week, 2 and 4 trains will run express in both directions between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and Franklin Avenue, bypassing Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parwkay. The 3 and 5 lines, which use the line during the day, don’t run to Brooklyn late at night.
People who are headed for Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway will be served by shuttle buses between Atlantic and Franklin avenues. In addition, the Q train station at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is fairly close to Grand Army Plaza and Bergen Street.