See you in L
I've lived in Manhattan my entire life and have been commuting by subway for nearly half of it, but to this day I still have no idea why trains will randomly elect to skip stops. This incredibly obnoxious decision comes with no notification whatsoever aside from two pulls of an insanely loud horn which apparently means "Wake the fuck up you half-asleep bitches! Despite the fact that your station is so packed half of you are waiting on the tracks, I'm in the running for 'Asshole of the Year' so I'm going to completely skip your stop, enabling you to be even later to work than you already are! See you in hell, motherfuckers!"The L used to pull this shit all the time in high school while waiting at the First Avenue stop. This ensured you were gonna have to walk your ass over to Union Square, what with the L being the most inconsistent train on the planet, plus who the hell knew if the next one would even stop or if you would be able to board due to the scores of additional people packing the platform
What does the station skip accomplish? And you only ever see this happen during rush hour. Surely there are better ways to elicit a collective groan from a large group of people - just ask the writing staff of "The Simpsons."
posted by Larry at 7:56 AM
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All trains are part of a master chedule. They each have to reach their last stop and return to their home station within a set amount of time.
Skip stops are those where traffic is considerably low or non-existent during peak hours; for example, 157 on the 1/9 train was a skip stop almost daily during rush hour.
But good news Larrykins - the 9 is no more, and skip stops are totally eliminated from the now solo 1 line. Makes you wanna visit me on the UWS now, don't it? :)
I completely know what you are talking about!! the only difference is that i ride a bus (in addition to the subway) and the damn Q10 is so inconsistent! it shows up whenever it feels like, and just as your L does, somtimes just drives right by all of us waiting - while the bus is practically empty too! grrrr!!! this is why i am moving out of my lame neighborhood in queens to a much better commute in another borough!
Alright, Cursey McSwearer, where did you go to high school? Your keen knowledge of swearing and acute and focused rage of the L seem to indicate you went to Xavier H.S. - dice? no dice?
75% of the L train gets off at Union Square. 24% get off at 6th Ave and the rest at the last stop on 8th Ave. I get on at 1st Ave like you and it does skip, but only when loaded to the gills and with more than another train load on the platform. The thing that always gets me laughing is that it beeps and people still get the fuck off the benches staggering toward the train acting like dumb fucks; c'mon go back to Texas you stupid mother fuckers! Is this your first time on a real choo choo train? Another problem is that everyone is moving to fucking Brooklyn which loads down the train before it even gets to Manhattan with these cocksuckers who work/school in Manhattan... but don't live here. I say if you can't pay, don't play, stay in your bourough, we don't need your cheap wannabe bridge and tunnel ass!!
There's nothing I enjoy more than when the L skips the first and third avenues. What makes it even better is when the conductor announces it, and half the train exits at Bedford to wait for the next one. My commute's cut in half, I get a seat, and my mind is at ease knowing all those first and third avenue duche bags have to pile two train's worth of commuters into one train.
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