Called the Weekender, it tells of changes in weekend subway service.
The Mets avoided a sweep in their weekend Subway Series.
Weekend Subway Headaches: Service interruptions and route changes abound.
But for many New Yorkers, these miseries pale against the ordeal of a weekend subway ride.
It is not just the weekday commute you need to worry about — weekend subway ridership is at levels not seen in decades.
"For our young players, this is certainly the most exciting moment they've had in baseball," Collins said of the weekend Subway Series.
The weekend subway experience now entails crowded platforms, sardine-tight train cars and a rising tide of complaints as the system struggles with its biggest weekend passenger load in several decades.
He said that the changes were meant to make weekend subway service more predictable, since it is already often disrupted by track and signal maintenance and improvement projects.
For that younger generation of New Yorkers who never knew the joys and agonies of the empty weekend subway of yore, City Room wants our readers to chime in with their own memories.
"Now we're going back and saying, "Well, we're going to do it anyway.' " Howard H. Roberts Jr., the president of New York City Transit, said that he planned to make reductions in weekend subway service on most of the lettered subway lines.
