Friday Evening Subway: No E Trains Between Briarwood and Jamaica Center — 6 Trains Delayed by a Signal Problem at Pelham Bay Park
The evening rush runs on 12 active alerts. The hardest hit is Queens: there is no E service between Briarwood and Jamaica Center-York College, with E trains running via the F — while 6 and 6X trains are delayed in both directions by a signal problem near Pelham Bay Park, and downtown A and C trains are delayed after an EMS request at Chambers Street.
Queens takes the evening's worst of it. On the MTA feed read in full by this desk — 12 alerts in the feed, with 798 trains running systemwide on the live count — there is no E train service between Briarwood and Jamaica Center-York College. E trains are running via the F line in both directions between Briarwood and Jamaica-179 Street, and riders on both the E and F should expect delays in both directions while the railroad investigates why a train's brakes activated at Jamaica-Van Wyck.
The delays stack across the map. The 6 and 6X are running with delays in both directions while a signal problem near Pelham Bay Park is addressed. Jamaica-bound J and Z trains are delayed after a report of someone being disruptive on a train at Myrtle Avenue was investigated, and downtown A and C trains are delayed after EMS was requested for someone in need at Chambers Street. The downtown 1 continues to skip 125th Street for station improvements — the feed directs riders to 137th Street-City College or 116th Street-Columbia University.
The planned work rides underneath the unplanned delays, as it has all day. In Queens, all Manhattan-bound 7 and 7X trains stop at 74th Street-Broadway while Flushing-bound 7X express trains skip it, and Flushing-bound 7 trains skip 52nd and 69th Streets, with every train at Woodside-61st Street boarding from the Manhattan-bound platform. In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound 4 trains skip Burnside Avenue — use 176th or 183rd Streets — and the feed's weekend note has those trains stopping at Burnside and boarding from the Manhattan-bound platform from Saturday at 3:45 a.m. to Sunday at 10 p.m.
The edges of the system carry their own notes: the Staten Island Railway's New Dorp east-end entrance, St George-bound, is closed until further notice for station-house repairs, fallen leaves may slow SIR service, and at 5th Avenue/53rd Street the Madison Avenue entrance is exit-only while escalators are replaced. This is a live-feed snapshot read this cycle; the E suspension and the Pelham Bay signal work are the two items to recheck before a late trip, and this desk's overnight file reads the feed again.
