I love all this "Transit Talk" from Non-New Yorkers . It's nice to see you all paying attention . lol

So LB, how long have you been here a. less than a month b. less than three months c. almost a year? I read all these comments and most of them sound legit. BTW, I've been here 10 years. As a former resident of WillyB, with my stop being Bedford, I know what it's like riding the L. Just one reason why I moved out of that neighborhood. It's too bad whenever this sort of thing happens, wherever it happens, but I get a little chuckle when I think of all those "I'm so cooler than thou" attitudes of what has become the face of Williamsburg all stuck together waiting for the train. It seems most of them haven't lived in NYC long enough to learn that you won't be judged as a non-resident if you're cordial to people who aren't like you and/or starangers.

As far as the transit workers in the booth at Lorimer, they should have posted on a piece of paper on the window of their both that you can take alternate routes (bus or G train to Hoyt/Schemerhorn to catch the A or to Court Sq. and catch the E or F). Transit workers, much as they've been a pain in my ass, don't always have the magic answer you want to hear, and as much as the MTA is a joke sometimes, trains break down, etc., etc. It's all part of the fun of living here : )

Lifetime Williamsburg resident and my home station is Lorimer Street. Emperor Bloomberg allowed OVERDEVELOPMENT of this neighborhood with no plan for increased use of water, sewage, electric, gas and no plan for the L line. The L line CAN'T BE improved without a massive rebuilding since there are local lines. No one is whining here. I drove to work today since at 8:10 AM there were people waiting five deep on the station. Signal problems and other delays for four of eight days in the AM... and I'm only two stops from Manhattan. Ridiculous.

So anyone who was there: Did the fancy new automated signs give useful, or at least accurate, information?

No announcement. No signs. Nothing. The MTA employees in their shacks wouldn't even make eye contact, much less answer any questions. I have a good idea of how the MTA can cut some costs and it doesn't involve discontinuing lines or raising prices—cut the fatties!

Same thing happened on the 4/5 this morning.

I don't know if it's just my experience, but most of the subway platforms that I've been on lately are significantly more stifling than the temps outside.

West 4th (especially the lower level) and the 34th St NQR are especially bad offenders.

This is why I love the "new M." Before I would have been stuck in that hell hole, and now I have a nice smooth ride and actually get to enjoy the unknown L train pleasure of a seat.

This is what happens when you overdevelop a neighborhood and cut train service. It'll happen in LIC, too.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Whine whine whine

The greatest public transportation system in the US of A

Running better than it ever has in its 100+ years of existence

and still

Not satisfied

You people are like the journalist on the first flight which had wireless internet provided, five minutes in the signal goes out as they were in the stratosphere cruising, and he said, "This is just so typical."

Thanks for the false dichotomy dude

Saying we shouldn't whine because we have the best public transportation in the US (I don't buy your argument about running better than it ever has) is kind of like saying that Africans shouldn't complain because they have shoes now, and mostly enough to eat. NYC's public transit is absolutely pathetic compared to European cities and even some in South America (ever been to Buenos Aires?). Lrn2logic or gtfo.

It sucked and when I heard someone asking the MTA lady she shrugged it off and said no trains were running to Manhattan.

I don't like riding the L train

cause I always feel that I am not counter-culture enough to be on it :(

then take the bus you loser

yikes! someone is a little cranky this morning.

Years of signal work, expensive new cars and we STILL don't have reliable service on this line. They've spent millions (don't have the exact figure handy) putting in a complex electronic signal system and yet it malfunctions daily. All we have to show for it are loud, obnoxious automated announcements about train arrival times. When there's a problem, they don't make any announcements at all.

"All we have to show for it are loud, obnoxious automated announcements about train arrival times."

Well, no, we also have the loud, obnoxious digitzed hipster pronouncements about train arrival times.

Insert hipster bashing comment here.

Happens all the time on other train lines.