The MTA will be making some adjustments to subway service starting in June 2023 that they say better reflects post-pandemic travel trends in the city.

But transit advocates and union leadership are opposing the changes, saying the move is a service cut as opposed to a reallocation of resources to where they are needed most, as the MTA claims.

"I don't care what the MTA calls this. This is a service cut for everyone who rides the subway on Mondays and Fridays," TWU Local 100 president Richard Davis said in a statement. "There will be fewer trains making fewer trips. Riders will wait longer on platforms. It will take longer for them to reach their destinations. No amount of spin will change that."

The MTA says it will be adding trips on the G, J and M lines on weekends.

It will also start Manhattan-bound A and C express trains earlier during the morning rush.

To make these additional trips possible, it will cut service on the 1, 6, 7, L, E, F and Q lines on Mondays and Fridays.

The agency says it has now seen enough post-pandemic data to know what it needs to do to better serve riders.

"We continually analyze ridership patterns to better serve riders," said New York City Transit President Richard Davey. "These adjustments reflect higher ridership recovery on the weekends, and lower relative ridership on Mondays and Fridays in the post-COVID hybrid work era. As riders continue to return to mass transit and patterns change, New York City Transit will adapt service accordingly as we strive to provide faster, cleaner and safer rides."

The Riders Alliance spoke out against the changes.

"Reducing transit service costs riders time and gives us less reason to take public transit," said Danny Pearlstein, the Riders Alliance policy and communications director. "Instead of trimming rush hour to beef up off-peak service, Governor Hochul must find new revenue to both save transit and invest in its future by funding more frequent service in her January budget."