The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced the restoration of full weekday A. B, J. Z, 6  and  7 service, starting Wednesday, Jan. 19. In order to keep subway service at all 472 subway stations during the COVID-19 Omicron variant surge in New York City, the MTA had adjusted service by suspending the  B and Z trains, as well as the rush hour Rockaway Park branch of the A train.

No stations lost subway service as a result of these suspensions; the C, D, Q, Z  and  S (Rockway Park Shuttle) trains provided service to stations served by those three lines. The MTA had also suspended rush hour and weekday skip-stop express service on the S  in Brooklyn and Queens, weekday express service on  in the Bronx and rush hour express service on the 7  in Queens.

he restoration of full service on these six lines comes as ridership on subways has increased. On Thursday, Jan. 13, subway ridership was approximately 2.52 million, the highest since the start of Omicron surge just before Christmas. Prior to the Omicron surge, subways carried more than 3 million riders on an average weekday and hit four successive pandemic records in four weeks, including 3.43 million on Dec. 9, 2021.

The  W line remains suspended with customers being carried by the N in Queens and N, Q, R trains in Manhattan. During the time services were suspended, the D  line operated locally in the Bronx at all times and the C,  D and  Q trains all carried  B riders. The J  train operated local between Queens and Manhattan to serve  Z riders. The S (Rockaway Park Shuttle) train carried rush hour  A Rockaway Park riders, connecting with Far Rockaway A trains at Broad Channel.

-via Press Release