No Late Night Queens Bound F Train From Manhattan To Roosevelt Island This Week and Next Weekend – Will Tram Pick Up Slack and Operate All Night?

The MTA is reporting that there will be no Queens bound F trains from Manhattan to Roosevelt Island starting at 11:00 PM – 5 AM beginning Monday March 28 through Friday, April 1 and 12:01 AM – 5 AM Saturday April 2 through Monday April 4 and April 9 – 11. From the MTA:

F Jamaica-bound trains are rerouted via the M from 47-50 Sts to Queens Plaza

Nights, 11 PM to 5 AM, Mon to Fri, Mar 28 – Apr 1

Trains run express from Queens Plaza to Roosevelt Av then resume the F route to 179 St.

… For service to Roosevelt Island and 21 St-Queensbridge, take the F to Roosevelt Av

and transfer to a Coney-Island bound F.

For service from 57 St, Lexington Av-63 St, Roosevelt Island and 21 St-Queensbridge,

take a Coney Island-bound F to 47-50 Sts and transfer to a Jamaica-bound F .

A reader of the Yellow Gunk post on Tram Station wall asks if RIOC will be running the Tram all night during theses F Train subway disruptions:

My comment is about the Tram, but not about that yellow gunk.

You may know that there is no F train to Roosevelt Island this work week (March 28 April 1) at night (11 pm 5 am).

My SO works nights and this disruption badly affects his commute home as he cant get the Tram which stops working at 2 am, so he has to take F train to Queens and then to Roosevelt Island which adds additional 30-60 minutes to the commute because F trains run very infrequently at night. He inquired whether RIOC plans to operate the Tram at night this week and was said, NO.

But a train operator said that last week RIOC did operate the Tram the WHOLE NIGHT on days there was no F train service from Roosevelt Island.

So why does RIOC run the Tram all night if there is no Manhattan-bound F train at nights, but not at nights when there is no Queens-bound F train???

This is very unfair for RI residents returning home at night.

Another reader responds:

… It is inconvenient but I don’t think it is too much to ask to just work with the longer commute for a week.

I asked Roosevelt Island Operating Corp ( RIOC ) Vice President Of Operations Fernando Martinez for comment on the Tram’s operation during the subway disruptions. Will provide an update when an answer is received.