Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

16 min with no L train

At New Lots Av, toward Lorimer St, between 10:09 pm and 10:25 pm. The schedule called for a train every 8 min.

Line
L train
Station
New Lots Av (station L27)
Direction
toward Lorimer St
Train before
train 0L 2206 RPY/LOR, passed 10:09:39 pm
Train after
train 0L 2214 RPY/LOR, passed 10:25:39 pm
Gap
16 min (960 s)
Scheduled gap
8 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at New Lots Av toward Lorimer St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen0L 2206 RP0L 2214 RP9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm16 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed New Lots Av when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 0L 2206 RPY/LOR (before)Train 0L 2214 RPY/LOR (after)
10:08:09 pmnext stop East 105 Stnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:09:09 pmnext stop New Lots Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:10:09 pmnext stop Livonia Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:11:09 pmnext stop Livonia Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:12:09 pmnext stop Sutter Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:13:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:14:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:15:09 pmnext stop Broadway Junctionnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:16:09 pmnext stop Bushwick Av-Aberdeen Stnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:17:09 pmnext stop Wilson Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:18:09 pmnext stop Wilson Avnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:19:09 pmnext stop Halsey Stnext stop Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
10:20:09 pmnext stop Myrtle-Wyckoff Avsnot in the feed
10:21:09 pmnext stop Myrtle-Wyckoff Avsnext stop East 105 St
10:22:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnext stop East 105 St
10:23:09 pmnext stop Jefferson Stnext stop East 105 St

Showing 16 of 20 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-l-gap-80739.json.

Check it yourself

Scheduled times come from the MTA's supplemented GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from the MTA feed, polled once a minute. The raw records above are exactly what MTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.