Success! This morning I presented to the MTA Board several copies of the petition including the first 2,449 signatures. The 5th floor meeting room was packed, with all chairs taken and a few people standing.
The best moment of the meeting occurred about halfway through. Board Member Andrew B. Albert, whom I've never met, took a moment to express support the F&V petition.
Paraphrase:
Albert: I'd like to second what Mr. Reilly said about restoring the F express train in Brooklyn.
Kalikow: Was this something that was always intended when the express was shut for repairs originally?
Albert: Yes it was, but after the horrible fire we had at the Bergen Street station, it was put on the shelf.
Eliot Sander: We're looking into it.
News 12 conducted an interview with me after the meeting, which I assume will air tonight or sometime this week. Thank you News 12, for the interest.
After the meeting, I had chance to speak briefly with Board Member Norman Seabrook. The bottom line: our pleas are not falling on deaf ears.
Today was a good day. We still have Acts II and III ahead of us. How it ends is all that matters.
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I was waiting for the F at 7th ave to go into Manhattan yesterday around 12:30. I noticed a train on the express track just outside the station. When it pulled in I saw that it was a two car, pretty high tech looking train with a bunch of engineer types inside. On the side of the train it said Track Inspection. So they are doing something, at the minimum they were checking out the express tracks coming out of the 7th ave station.
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