Cuomo: “Bus Bridge” Linking Manhattan and Brooklyn Coming Soon

A few quick takeaways from Governor Cuomo’s recently-concluded press conference on the recovery from Sandy:

• There will be very limited subway service restorations tomorrow today tomorrow morning, on 14 of the MTA’s 23 lines. Nothing below 34th Street. That’s as specific as he got.
• Of the seven flooded subway tunnels under the East River, three have been pumped, but presumably there will be no trains running in the tunnels for a while.
• Streets will apparently be repurposed, to some extent, to handle the extra pressure (which is only expected to get more intense as power comes back online and more people resume their commutes). Cuomo said there will be a “bus bridge” linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, but specifics aren’t available yet. Update: The buses will run from Downtown Brooklyn to Midtown, which sounds like a Manhattan Bridge route.
• Chuck Schumer said he’s going to press for 90 percent of the recovery costs to be shouldered by the feds, as opposed to the typical 75 percent.

Mayor Bloomberg has a press conference scheduled for 1:30, so we hope to have more specifics on the emergency surface transportation plans then.

Update 2: The Governor’s office has released a list of all subway and emergency shuttle bus service that will be operational as of 2 p.m. this afternoon tomorrow morning. There are three shuttle bus routes — two plying the Manhattan Bridge and one on the Williamsburg Bridge — filling some of the gaps in subway service:

SHUTTLE BUSES:

All shuttle buses will operate north on 3^rd Avenue and south on Lexington Avenue.

1. Between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and 57^th Street-Lexington Avenue via the Manhattan Bridge

2. Between Jay Street-MetroTech and 57^th Street-Lexington Avenue via the Manhattan Bridge

3. Between Hewes Street and 57^th Street-Lexington Avenue via the Williamsburg Bridge

And here are the details on subway service restorations:

NYCT SUBWAY SERVICE:

1 trains will operate local between 242^nd Street (Bronx) and Times Square-42^nd Street.

2 trains will operate between 241^st Street (Bronx) and Times Square-42^nd Street, with express service between 96^th Street and Times Square.

3 trains are suspended.

4 trains will operate in two sections making all local stops:

• · Between Woodlawn (Bronx) and Grand Central-42^nd Street
• · Between Borough Hall and New Lots Avenue

5 trains will operate express in Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and Flatbush Avenue.

6 trains will operate local between Pelham Bay Park and Grand Central-42^nd Street.

7 trains are suspended.

42^nd Street Shuttle S trains will operate between Times Square and Grand Central.

A trains will operate in two sections making all local stops:

• · Between 168^th Street (Manhattan) and 34^th Street-Penn Station
• · Between Jay Street/MetroTech and Lefferts Blvd.

B and C service is suspended.

D trains operate in two sections:

• · Between 205^th Street (Bronx) and 34^th Street-Herald Square making all local stops
• · In Brooklyn, between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and Bay Parkway making express stops between Pacific Street and 36^th Street

E trains are suspended.

F trains operate in two sections making all local stops:

• · Between 179^th Street (Queens) and 34^th Street-Herald Square
• · In Brooklyn, between Jay Street-MetroTech and Avenue X

G trains are suspended.

J trains operate between Jamaica Center and Hewes Street making all local stops.

L trains operate between Broadway Junction and rockaway Parkway making all local stops.

M trains operate between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Metropolitan Avenue.

N trains operate between Ditmars Blvd. (Queens) and 34^th Street-Herald Square making all local stops.

Q trains are suspended.

R trains operate in Brooklyn between Jay Street-MetroTech and 95^th Street making all local stops.

Both the Franklin Avenue and Rockaway Park S shuttles are suspended.