Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

36 min with no M train

At Broadway-Lafayette St, toward 96 St, between 10:40 pm and 11:16 pm. The schedule called for a train every 14 min.

Line
M train
Station
Broadway-Lafayette St (station D21)
Direction
toward 96 St
Train before
train 1M 2208 MET/962, passed 10:40:39 pm
Train after
train 1M 2244 MET/962, passed 11:16:39 pm
Gap
36 min (2160 s)
Scheduled gap
14 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Broadway-Lafayette St toward 96 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1M 2208 ME1M 2244 ME10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm36 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Broadway-Lafayette St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1M 2208 MET/962 (before)Train 1M 2244 MET/962 (after)
10:39:09 pmnext stop X22not in service yet
10:41:09 pmnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sqnot in service yet
10:43:09 pmnext stop 14 Stnot in service yet
10:45:09 pmnext stop 23 Stnext stop Middle Village-Metropolitan Av
10:47:09 pmnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnext stop Fresh Pond Rd
10:49:09 pmnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnext stop Seneca Av
10:51:09 pmnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
10:53:09 pmnext stop 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctrnext stop Knickerbocker Av
10:55:09 pmnext stop 57 Stnext stop Central Av
10:57:09 pmnext stop Lexington Av/63 Stnext stop Myrtle Av
10:59:09 pmnext stop 72 Stnext stop Flushing Av
11:01:09 pmnext stop 86 Stnext stop Lorimer St
11:03:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Marcy Av
11:05:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Marcy Av
11:07:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Delancey St-Essex St
11:09:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Delancey St-Essex St

Showing 16 of 40 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-m-gap-83799.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.