Is the L Train Fucked?
10 February 2011

Almost every day I find myself asking one question: “Is the L train fucked?”

The L train has a reputation for being a little less than reliable, especially during the summer. While it gets a lot of hate from New Yorkers, I don’t think its that bad. At least its not the G train, amirite? Either way, since the L is really the only train that services my immediate neighborhood, I am naturally concerned about the status of the L train’s service.

Last night, while watching an episode of Party Down with my lovely roommate Anna, I put together Is the L Train Fucked?. The website’s info is no more than 60 seconds old and is a good way to find out if maybe you should be taking a cab home instead of waiting around for 45 minutes or so. The app is using the MTA’s official API (which is great btw), Sinatra, Heroku, and GitHub. These awesome tools let people like me release fun apps so everyone mentinoed in the previous sentence: great job!