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L Train Subway Screens Show Real-Time Train Motion
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 6, 2009
Modified Feb 6, 2009
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As promised last October, NYC Transit has installed video screens on the platform in the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Brooklyn showing the locations of every L train on the line, updated every 15 seconds. The system was unveiled to reporters yesterday, and L Line General Manager Greg Lombardi was on hand to explain this 21st century marvel to awe-struck commuters. The screens cull data from the L line’s cutting-edge computerized operating system, which tracks exact train locations; if they prove successful, Lombardi promises to expand them to other stations on the L line, so stranded straphangers will at least have something to watch while they seethe. But at least one commuter yesterday was unimpressed, telling NY1, "If they're broke right now, and they're cutting service, I'm not sure they should put money into something like this." An NYC Transit rep tells us the screens were bought at Circuit City (LG 42”) and the system cost "way less than $100,000" to implement.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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