NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will be closing down the A, C, and E trains on the Eighth Avenue subway line, closing stations on 59th St.-Columbus Circle to Jay St.-MetroTech and the World Trade Center corridor in both directions.
The closures begin Monday at 10 p.m., and will run until 5 a.m. the following morning. The repairs and cleaning will go on for four consecutive weeknights, for seven hours each night. The MTA plans to finish by Friday morning.
The closures are a part of the authority’s FASTRACK maintenance program. Under this initiative, MTA workers inspect signals and switches; renovate track rails, elevators, escalators, drains, bulbs, platform edges, and clean the station floors and walls.
“FASTRACK has quickly become a game-changer for us as we are able to complete work that otherwise would have taken months under normal operations,” NYC Transit President Thomas Prendergast said in a statement.
“As we continue to fine tune operations under FASTRACK, we will look to expand the program to line segments in the outer boroughs next year,” he said.
Subway service that normally doesn’t run at night will run on some lines to accommodate the service change.
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