Fastrack Hits the Q, N, R Lines April 15-19

The Q, N and R lines will be shut down over night night this week for the MTA’s Fastrack program, which aims to accomplish in a week repairs and maintenance work that would normally take much longer.

Starting Monday night, April 15, and lasting through Friday morning, April 19, there will be no Q or N service in Manhattan from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Here are the details: 

• N trains will run in Queens and Brooklyn only. 
• Q trains will run in Brooklyn and will be rerouted via the D line in Manhattan.
• R service will end early in Manhattan and Queens each night. (R shuttle service between 95thStreet and 36th Street, Brooklyn will run all night.) 

For alternate travel options see the MTA fastrack page.

Introduced in January 2012, Fastrack allows workers to effciently perform such tasks as inspecting signals and switches, replacing track rails and cross ties, repairing elevators and escalators and fixing third rail defects. Shutting a line down completely for a seven-hour stretch allows "an army of maintenance workers to perform dozens of tasks without the concern of having to 'clear up' to allow trains to pass," according to the MTA.

The next Fastrack overnight closure will be from May 6 through May 10 on the Fourth Avenue line in Brooklyn between 36th Street (D, N R) and Bay Ridge-95th Street (R).