作為雙重合約(英语:Dual Contracts)的一部分,這些中央軌道會繼續前往百老匯,客源為布魯克林和蒙塔格街隧道(英语:Montague Street Tunnel);而慢車軌道於市政府車站上層終止。該計劃在路線完工前已被放棄。新計劃建議慢車軌道途經市政府車站上層,並將該站以南重建連接路線其餘的慢車和經曼哈頓大橋的快車服務。於是市政府車站下層在建設時已廢棄,而且從未營運。今天,車站以北,實際的快車軌道於曼哈頓大橋轉向北,上升並取代市政府車站下層的中央軌道。
除了1990年三個月的時間以外,列車服務由1988年至2001年曼哈頓大橋重建計劃期間停運。月台繼續作為車站複合其餘部分的轉乘通道開放。介乎曼哈頓和布魯克林之間的服務改路至蒙塔格街隧道(英语:Montague Street Tunnel)。該三個月時期原先預計在大橋工程尚未啟動前容許列車通過大橋,但1990年12月27日發現失去了鋼板和鏽蝕,影響橋樑的整體安全性導致此服務被迫中止[14][15]。1997年一度設有由亞歷山大·布羅德斯基(英语:Alexander Brodsky)製作、名為「堅尼街運河」(Canal Street Canal)的臨時藝術展品,安裝於北行軌道。其包括一個裝滿水的大型防水箱,並有威尼斯運河船浮在裡面[16]。月台於2001年7月22日重開,並安裝了新地磚,升級了照明和公共地址系統,月台邊緣安裝了ADA黃色安全踏板,新指示牌和來回方向新道床。
^http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/Canal.platf.jpg (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) From the Abandoned Stations website: A Public Service Commission photo from 1909 shows the east platform with non-tiled steel columns. The view is looking south, showing the wall between the center tracks. The stepped structure at the base of wall near the image center is part of the bridge over the projected Canal St subway, not even begun at the time. The station looks completed, about four years before it opened. There is a rough strip near the platform edge. Track was to be installed by the operating company.
^http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/Canal.junction.jpg (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) From the Abandoned Stations website: "Another Public Service Commission image shows the tunnel just south of the station as it was in 1909. Here, as in the plan, the trackways curving in from the Manhattan Bridge line, right, just run into the main line on the level. At left is the track opening into the east track of Canal St station. This arrangement was rebuilt in 1913-1914, shifting the track to Canal St station a little farther back, so that when the Manhattan Bridge trains began running in 1915, they reached the east side of Chambers St without crossing the tracks of the Williamsburg Bridge trains".
^紐約時報, [1] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Open First Section of Broadway Line, September 5, 1917