Well, we're going to, we may have to hitch a ride like the Ramones are singing to Rockaway Beach if you want to get there.

I'm Bridget Bergen filling in for Brian Lair.

Let's talk about that months-long shutdown of the subway service to the Rockways due to start January 15th.

And full disclosure, if you can't tell already, this is a personal issue for me.

As a resident of the peninsula, how am I going to get to work exactly?

Evan Simco, Benardski, transit reporter at the New York Daily News, joins me now with more information about the shutdown,

maybe some suggestions for how I can cope with this and some other transit news.

Evan, welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you, Bridget. Good to be here. Okay, so January 17th, excuse me, the A train will shut down.

And that date is actually pretty much burned in my brain. It's going to terminate at Howard Beach

and JFK Airport. And this lasts through when exactly?

So this is supposed to run until about May 16th.

There's some padding built in there, but they're billing it as a 17-week shutdown.

A 17-week shutdown.

Listeners, especially those of us who use the subway past JFK, have you made your alternative plans for what you're going to do?

How inconvenient is this shutdown going to be for you?

Anybody a G-Train rider who can share what it was like to navigate your summer shutdown?

Maybe you can give us a train riders a dose of

optimism or maybe just some plain realism. And for all my broad channel and Rockaway Peninsula

residents, what are you going to do? You know, people have to leave the peninsula for work in school.

How are you going to get where you need to go? And do you need any more information from my guest, Daily News Transit reporter, Evan Simco,

Benardski, Rockaway residents, or people who work or travel there especially?

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