Interestingly, L stacks up pretty well against the other subway lines, despite its notorious delays (and websites such as is the L train fucked). The median waiting time is the smallest out of all the lines, and even the extreme case compares favorably.
This is a polite way of saying, “There’s nothing wrong with the L train. It’s just that hipsters are more likely to whine about it.”
Although there’s no guarantee that if a train arrives, you’ll be able to board it. My friend used to ride the 6 uptown a few stops in order to be able to board a less crowded train going downtown because by the time the train arrived at the local station it was completely full.
It’s the only fully automated train in the NYC subway system (since 2012), which helps explain its notably tighter distribution on the original post’s graphs compared to the other trains. Makes present-day L train complaints even more curious.
I lived in Williamsburg in 2006 (summer housing) and 2008 (long story) even though I found most of the people (the hipsters, not the natives) insufferable. The L train is pretty reliable. The main complaint was that it would go down on the weekends, and then you’d have to take the shuttle bus.
The L train could be pretty miserable at 8:30 on a weekday morning, but that wasn’t the train’s fault.
This is a polite way of saying, “There’s nothing wrong with the L train. It’s just that hipsters are more likely to whine about it.”
Although there’s no guarantee that if a train arrives, you’ll be able to board it. My friend used to ride the 6 uptown a few stops in order to be able to board a less crowded train going downtown because by the time the train arrived at the local station it was completely full.
It’s the only fully automated train in the NYC subway system (since 2012), which helps explain its notably tighter distribution on the original post’s graphs compared to the other trains. Makes present-day L train complaints even more curious.
I lived in Williamsburg in 2006 (summer housing) and 2008 (long story) even though I found most of the people (the hipsters, not the natives) insufferable. The L train is pretty reliable. The main complaint was that it would go down on the weekends, and then you’d have to take the shuttle bus.
The L train could be pretty miserable at 8:30 on a weekday morning, but that wasn’t the train’s fault.