Full G Train service resumes in Brooklyn following capital improvement overhaul

September 4, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

The F and G Church Avenue subway station in Kensington. Photo courtesy: MTA via Flickr

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BOROUGHWIDE — FULL G TRAIN SERVICE through Brooklyn and Queens resumed on the first business day after the Labor Day holiday weekend, and MTA officials said it was delivered on time. The line’s three-phase series of partial 24/7 shutdowns, which allowed the MTA to complete major repairs and signal upgrades across the entire line that spans Brooklyn and Queens and serves Brooklyn neighborhoods from Kensington to Greenpoint. This project marked MTA Construction & Development’s first design-build signal modernization project, and innovative contracting methods like design-build allow the MTA to contain project costs while limiting service disruption and impacts to customers.

Since the shutdown began June 28, the project team installed modern signal equipment across the entire line and completed critical state-of-good-repair work, including the reconstruction of the Court Square interlocking and approximately 30 miles of track. Many of the signals on the G train date back to the line’s debut in the 1930s and those became frequent sources of service disruptions and delays.

NYC Transit took advantage of service outages to perform its ongoing Re-NEW-vation upgrades, repairs, and deep cleanings at 10 subway stations along the G line. Some weekend and overnight service outages will occur as the project continues, beginning with 9:45 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. work the week of Sept. 16.

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