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How come there's always a problem on that line? It's sad because I like Williamsburg, but the last two times I tried to get there (including the Second Friday art gallery open house), the L train wasn't running.
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I don't know the answer to it's current problems but before the hipsters moved in,every station on that line was shady and the service was just as bad if not worse than it is now.
It's safer and nicer ride overall due to gentrification and just sheer increase in number of people living in that area. More people = more people are complaining and the type of people who are complaining have more money/power than folks who were living there before = more notable to MTA and mass media in general.
If williamsburg had better service than L, the gentrification explosion would have been much wider spread and faster.
Hey, all you had to do was ask! I can tell you what's wrong with the Canarsie line.
MTA is hard at work instituting an automated system on that line known as CBTC (Computer Based Train Control). Actually, they started installing it nearly ten years ago. It never worked properly, and they wasted so much time and money, they actually lost the Federal grant they had. But the official mantra over at 2 Broadway is, "We'll make it work." Everyone else thinks they're just smashing their heads into a wall (which is the case), but not the suits and ties who run the operation. They're pushing ahead with CBTC regardless of how dysfunctional it keeps proving itself to be--or, at this point, how outdated the original technology is.
Incidentally, those of us who work for MTA make a little joke, and say that CBTC actually stands for "Catch Bus to Canarsie." This is not appreciated by supervision.
I don't know the answer to it's current problems but before the hipsters moved in,every station on that line was shady and the service was just as bad if not worse than it is now.
Bedford ave in Williamsburg was never that bad not even in the 90s... thats why gentrification exploded so quickly over there... But i agree the service on the L lines sucks... It's amazing how bad that is considering how crowded that line always is... It just may be the most crowded train line in the city and yet its the one thats constantly screwed up...
I used to ride the l line 45 years ago. It was awful then. they used to throw rocks around broadway junction at th trains shattering windows and cutting people.
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L train..
(Admittedly Manhatinnocentric)
