It's Friday morning, so it's time to start making plans for the blessed, blessed weekend. But if you live in, or want to travel to, Northern Brooklyn we probably should warn you: Among other planned service changes, this weekend boasts yet another total shutdown of the L. But there is a silver lining to this weekend's L Hell! We swear!

Yes, from Friday night through Monday morning there will be no L service between 8th Avenue and Broadway Junction. And yes, that sucks. But on the plus side the MTA tells us that while "There will be other outages along the L line this year, this weekend will be the last planned outage that impacts service to/from Manhattan." So yeah, it probably won't be your last time riding a fake-L shuttle bus, but at least businesses on Bedford will have one less thing to complain about?

Meanwhile, the service changes seem to us like a perfect reason to go check out one of the St. Patrick's parades in the other boroughs!