With the opening of the Second Avenue Subway, there have been plenty of changes, from the map of subway lines to signs throughout the transit system. But old signs at one busy station slipped through the cracks. NY1's Jose Martinez filed the following report.
Something's not right at more than one entrance to the Lexington Avenue-59th Street subway station.
"It's very confusing for the commuting public seeing that there's a Q on, and you go downstairs and there's no Q," said one commuter.
The Q train quit running through the station two months ago. The W line took its its place, one of the changes made in preparation for the launch of the new Second Avenue Subway on New Year's Day. The Q was rerouted to that new Second Avenue line.
Crews at the MTA's Brooklyn sign shop cranked out more than 1,300 signs to reflect the service charges. They were posted from Astoria, Queens, to Coney Island, Brooklyn.
But a section of the busy Lexington Avenue-59th Street station remained stuck in the past, including at the entrance on Third Avenue and 60th Street.
"It's a little bit lazy. I would think that they'd be better on top of it," said one commuter.
A few blocks away at the station's other entrances, crews managed to stay on top of its lines and signs.
At the corner of 59th and Lexington, the same blunder wasn't repeated. There is no sign of the Q there.
Alerted by NY1, an MTA spokesman says the dated signs will be replaced.
That's not a moment too soon, according to those commuting in and out of the station, the 10th-busiest station in the city. In 2015, it was used by nearly 70,000 riders on an average weekday.
"Sometimes, when I'm trying to get around and you're following the signs and the Q train is not there, it makes it very inconvenient and very confusing," said one commuter.
"It should work," said another.
Starting Wednesday, the MTA says, it will, when the botched station signs get replaced.