I use the L every day and I'm mixed about it. The L is already the fastest and most on time train in the city. It going down would be a massive inconvenience for me, but I want the city to take steps to improving the subway infrastructure. Backing down now just to get some votes is just kicking the can down the road to another generation to deal with

It's worse than that. They have to setup a job site every Friday night and break it down on Sunday night. Think about doing a craft/construction project in your house when you don't have a dedicated workspace, most of the time is setting up your workspace.

As with most thing NYC transit it's a mix. It would have been a huge disruption to people travelling into the city doubling commute times. On the other hand not shutting down the line means very important repairs have to be jammed into nights and weekends. Some repairs just won't be possible within that time so it'll have to get fixed later when the damage may have worsened.

From reading all two minutes of the article:

> The new plan could be completed in 15 to 20 months

Seems like it will effectively render the L mostly unusable and extend the project time. It's a desperate gesture to commuters who were left with limited options for the shutdown.

It's a really nice train to ride day-to-day, luckily I can walk to work door-to-door in an hour, but when I think about others' situations it's truly going to be an insane inconvenience.

But there will be way less work to do with the new plan. The old plan was to totally gut the tunnel, the new one is to hang replacement cables and patch the concrete only where needed.

I wonder if they could just run it during rush hour on weekdays, which would open up the middle of the day and nighttime for more work.