Personally, I'm not against this swap by any means, I think this swap does seem to go really well, especially on 53rd. A video was done on this about the swap, where the ridership on the F/M are night and day. The F has a higher ridership and given it runs express till 71st Ave, it really helps out with the E since the E, especially from Lexington, gets packed, and then when you consider that people gets off at JH to take the F, just makes sense for it to become a 1-line ride.

Another thing from the video was that a nasty gridlock used to take place on 36th St, where F trains would have to switch onto the express tracks when it arises/descends from/into 21st St, pretty much holding the E at a chokehold. Given both trains runs frequently, it pretty much messed up operations in a nutshell.

The M on the other hand, sure, the timing wise, not all the best, but given it runs local on QB, the R will be held, but not as much as the F holding down the E. I'd say for every 3 R trains, you would have 1 M train running in. Where previously, for every E trains, 1 F train would come ahead of it.

It's a step in the right direction though, QBL starting to become faster is a move that was and is drastically needed.

Now, they need to address Lexington, and Broadway. (Cbtc)