Credit: @MrRailfan, @railcommuter897 & @Bklynkid52 for the announcement’s + Middle Villiage & Myrtle Avenue bound (M) Train Announcements
P.S, On March 19, 2010, it was reported that the plan had been changed and that the new combined service would instead carry the M train designation, recolored orange to designate the IND Sixth Avenue Line as its Manhattan trunk line, while discontinuing the V train. Many MTA board members opposed the elimination of the M designation, saying that riders would be more comfortable with that rather than a V designation, and because the M had been around longer than the V. The last M trains to Bay Parkway ran on June 25, 2010, and M service via the Chrystie Street Connection began the following Monday, June 28, 2010. During the morning rush hour, the M is at 90 percent of the New York City Subway's capacity guidelines. Ridership on the M has been growing very rapidly since the 2010 service change, and this trend is expected to continue. In June 2016, the frequencies of service on the M route during peak hours were increased, with the expectation that peak train frequencies would be raised again in the future. From July 1, 2017, to April 30, 2018, reconstruction of two sections of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line-the approaches to the line's junction with the BMT Jamaica Line and Fresh Pond Bridge over the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch in Queens-required a reroute of M service. Trains to and from Manhattan and Queens, instead of diverging at Myrtle Avenue to go to Metropolitan Avenue, continued east on the BMT Jamaica Line and terminated at Broadway Junction at all times except late nights, when service was suspended. A limited amount of rush hour trains ran between 71st Avenue in Queens and Second Avenue in Manhattan, replicating the V train's routing prior to its discontinuation in 2010. Three shuttle bus routes ran during reconstruction of the Fresh Pond Bridge: one between Myrtle Avenue and Fresh Pond Road; the second between Myrtle and Metropolitan Avenues, skipping the Fresh Pond Road station during the daytime hours; and the third between Flushing Avenue/Broadway and Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue, stopping at Flushing and Wyckoff Avenues for a transfer to the BMT Canarsie Line at Jefferson Street.
🟠 Shuttle Stops:
Metropolitan Avenue Middle Villiage ♿️
Fresh Pond Road
Forest Avenue
Seneca Avenue
Myrtle Avenue Wyckoff Avenue ⚪️ ♿️
Knickerbocker Avenue
Central Avenue
Myrtle Avenue Broadway 🟤