⁴ᴷ NYC Subway: M trains running to and from Broad St via the J Line

During Memorial Day weekend this year (May 24-27), J trains were suspended between Broad St and Crescent St. M trains ran between Metropolitan Av and Essex St, and then via the J line to Broad St to make up for service. M trains running to Broad St via the Nassau St line mimicks the lines' pre-2010 services pattern, known as the "Brown M train" so this is definitely one of the reasons many people were willing to check this out. Additionally, M trains running to Broad St is pretty uncommon, if anything M trains that run via Nassau these days normally go and terminate at Chambers St. Enjoy the footage!
ALL Footage was Recorded in May 2024
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[@7trainsattimessquare]

Honestly the M fits better being a Nassau St line cuz then it’s a fully BMT line

[@KennethRembertNYC]

Bring back the brown M train! And let the M train go to Chambers Street already, so i can ride on there to make better sense, rather than going into Forest Hills-71st Avenue, like the G & R trains go there as always

[@metropod]

Me again... Like I said, I work the M. 00:23... that is LITERALLY ME, standing there at my window with my arms crossed. Seriously. I am not speaking in hyperbolae. I am in this video. There is no purpose for the brown M to exist anymore. there is no reason for us to go to chambers outside of situations like this. Commuting patterns have changed. Service needs have changed. All going back to the old way does is provide doubled up service to three stations that do not need it. On top of that, you're making a complete mess of the Queens Blvd Line, but then again that is probably something you don't really worry about, you just want things to go back to the old ways... because they're what you were used to...

[@KennethRembertNYC]

@@metropod The orange M don't exist, fool!

[@TheRailLeaguer]

@@KennethRembertNYCYes it does.

[@AaronB474]

​​​@@TheRailLeaguer The M is literally a popular route as 22,000 people prefer to go to Midtown rather than lower Manhattan bringing the Brown M would not benefit anyone but rather hurt Northern Brooklyn riders even more I would extend the 8th Avenue local tracks via a new alignment along Myrtle Avenue with a portal built at Ryerson-Stebuen Streets so that it can properly connect with the Myrtle Avenue El this fully deinterlines the J which would run 24tph in place of the R on 4th Ave I'd sent the J there so that the R can get booted onto Fulton with the C being 8th Avenue/Fulton Exp running to Lefferts also demolishing a set of elevated tracks just to dig and put them underground is unwise it already has taken us forever just to get new infrastructure built (which the city and lose sight of track from time to time I'd admit) because the South 4th Street line just fixes what's not broke.

[@AaronB474]

​​@@TheRailLeaguer Also for the Utica Avenue corridor I realized that any IND Utica Avenue line would be infeasible even with the SAS (which shouldn't go to Utica at all because north of Fulton and In Williamsburg the numbers are pretty low taken bus data and ridership into account any IND Utica Avenue Line would be proven Infeasible).