"I did them once or twice, and they actually were pretty okay," said Bushwick resident Addison Boucher, who noted she traveled much less frequently during the shutdown, especially to Greenpoint. "They were air-conditioned. I couldn't complain, they came quickly. It was fine, but, I mean, it's still annoying to have to take the bus and go through city traffic instead of the subway."
"I luckily didn't have to do it for that long," said Grube as he waited for a Church Avenue-bound train at Metropolitan Avenue. "But I was happy to see that the G was running today and back in service, because it'll carve like 20 minutes off my commute."
"I have biked through extreme heat waves, up and down from Greenpoint to Downtown Brooklyn, many dozens if not hundreds of times this summer to get around our district," said Restler, who represents much of the G corridor in North Brooklyn. "It was not fun, I would have rather been on an air-conditioned train, but it's what needed to get done."
The G is the only direct train connection between Brooklyn and Queens that doesn't bypass through Manhattan, and in some parts of its route it's the only train line available, especially in Greenpoint.
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