L Service Suspended Due To Track Fire; M Train Packed!

NYC Subway Scoop Tweeted, "Due to a smoke condition @ 1st Ave, L suspended Myrtle Ave - 8th Ave both directions," and then "Update: L suspended both directions Bedford Ave - 8th Ave noth directions due to smoke condition @ 1st Ave." We hear there's a track fire in the tunnel and that passengers are being evacuated on the Brooklyn side.

Update 10:03 a.m.: MRMers Tweeted, "Subway fire! With smoke pouring out of the Bedford stop and people in mass exodus, alternate routes were taken advantage of," while danaspiegel took this photo, "How festive! Someone's starting a BBQ in the Bedford L station. I didn't need to go to work today anyway!"

Update 10:58: Service still seems to be suspended. Some Tweets: "Thanks to the L Train being a complete douchebag, the office is practically empty this morning. #WelcomeToTheCreativeDepartment" (via); "Fucking L train isn't running. Fuck my life that thing is my lifeblood" (via); "In a chilling twist for my morning commute, there is a fire in the tunnel. Go L train." (via); and "If the l train weren't already on fire, id set fire to it for making me take a shuttle bus into manhattan #slowestcommuteever" (via).

The MTA reminds you that they have the delay verification letters you can show to prove you were late...of course, they arrive in the mail.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 13, 2010 11:03 AM

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Think2wice

Platform doors. To keep the garbage out.

Ex-Life

I think I was on that same train. That smoke was pretty bad. My lungs still hurt a little.

Not twenty minutes before, I was watching some genetic defective at Bedford Nostrand throwing his Arizona bottle on the tracks, wishing I had a bucket of tar and a feather pillow.

doppelganger

I must've been on one of the last ones that went through, subway car filled with smoke b/w bedford and first ave, not fun.

negtive

There was a similar incident on the N/Q heading out of Astoria as well. I had to bail to the M line @ Steinway Street to get into Manhattan.

TheKlaus

I love these twats arbitrarily blaming it on the L-train itself and not on the probable, actual cause; THEIR trash making it's way onto the tracks. It's a track fire people, not an L-TRAIN FIRE.