F (New York City Subway service)
- F (New York City Subway service)
infobox NYCS service
service=F
name=Sixth Avenue Local
terminals=Jamaica–179th Street to Coney Island–Stillwell AvenueThe F Sixth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. It is colored orange on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs on the IND Sixth Avenue Line through Manhattan.
The NYCS|F service operates at all times, from 179th Street in Jamaica, Queens to Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, via Queens Boulevard, 63rd Street, Sixth Avenue, and the IND Culver Line making all local stops except for an express section in Queens between Forest Hills–71st Avenue and 21st Street–Queensbridge.
There is community support for resuming express service along the Culver Line in Brooklyn, where existing express tracks have been unused since the 1980s. [cite news|title=Can I get an express, please |first=Ariella |last=Cohen |url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/25/30_25expressf.html |work=The Brooklyn Paper |date=June 23, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-27] [cite news |title=Who needs an F express? |url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/36/30_36editorial.html |work=The Brooklyn Paper |date=September 15, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-27] The MTA has announced that the elevated Culver Viaduct will undergo extensive renovations from 2009–2012, after which "There will be no impediment to implementing the F express." [cite news |first=Mike |last=McLaughlin |title=Fix for Fourth Avenue station looks F’ing great|url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/46/30_46finggreat.html |work=The Brooklyn Paper |date=November 24, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-27]
The NYCS|F train uses the following lines:
External links
* [http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/fline.htm MTA NYC Transit — F Sixth Avenue Local]
*PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/tfcur.pdf MTA NYC Transit — F–V timetable] |380 KB
Notes
References
* [http://members.aol.com/bdmnqr2/linehistory.html Line-by-Line History]
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