City - by Kaela Rae Jensen on Friday, October 30, 2009 9:00 - 2 Comments - 295 views
Despite taking the L train twice a day every day, somehow I missed hearing about the best thing ever, and maybe you did too.
According to Gothamist, the MTA has installed real-time video screens showing the exact location of individual trains in two different L stations: Myrtle-Wyckoff and more recently, the Bedford stop. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever made it to the Myrtle-Wyckoff stop, but it was probably the success of the screens there (installed back in February) that expanded the program to Bedford Ave.
The screens are neat. They have little trains, and the little trains move and it’s updated every 15 seconds!
Most Brooklyn commuters will still have to settle for the often inaccurate counters in all L stations, and commuters who take any other train in New York City will have to settle for nothing. Until the MTA puts little train screens in every station, we will all just have to feel envy in addition to disdain every time hipsters pack into the train at the last minute.
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I still say regardless of your stop, the L, with its LED countdown screens and female voice reassuring you a Manhattan bound train is en route, is the best for anxiety-prone commuters. Except for the whole claustrophobia, trapped underwater thing.
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