By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
INWOOD — Northern Manhattan straphangers will have to find another way to get home starting this weekend as the MTA begins its two-year overhaul of the 1 train line from Dyckman Street northward to the Bronx.
The $45 million project, which will not include any accessible stations for riders with disabilities, will eliminate all northbound service starting at Dyckman Street every weekend for the next 10 months. After the northbound platform is completed, it will reopen and the southbound platform will close for repairs.
The service changes will allow crews to completely overhaul the landmarked Dyckman Station. In addition, workers will also begin renovating the 207th, 215th, 225th, 238th and 242nd Street stations.
Northbound 1 trains will stop running each weekend at 11:30 p.m. on Fridays and will resume at 5 a.m. Mondays.
The MTA is advising riders to instead use free shuttle buses that travel along Broadway between 190th Street and 242nd Street; or buses that travel on Saint Nicholas Avenue between West 191st Street and West 168th Street.
Riders are also encouraged to use the A train, although the overflow will likely mean packed train cars, since the MTA has said it has no plans to increase train capacity because it is already running at full capacity.
For Inwood resident Reyna Cruz, 44, the construction will boil down to more time traveling to work and back.
"I budget more time for my commute," she said. "I’m just glad Dyckman is getting fixed. That place’s been a nightmare for too long."
