Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

31 min with no R train

At Jay St-MetroTech, toward Bay Ridge-95 St, between 10:37 pm and 11:08 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
R train
Station
Jay St-MetroTech (station R29)
Direction
toward Bay Ridge-95 St
Train before
train 1R 2140+ CTL/95S, passed 10:37:39 pm
Train after
train 1R 2158+ CTL/95S, passed 11:08:39 pm
Gap
31 min (1860 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Jay St-MetroTech toward Bay Ridge-95 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1R 2140+ C1R 2158+ C10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm31 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1R 2140+ CTL/95S (before)Train 1R 2158+ CTL/95S (after)
10:36:09 pmnext stop Jay St-MetroTechnext stop 34 St-Herald Sq
10:38:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnext stop 23 St
10:40:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 14 St-Union Sq
10:42:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 8 St-NYU
10:44:09 pmnext stop Union Stnext stop Prince St
10:46:09 pmnext stop 4 Av-9 Stnext stop Canal St
10:48:09 pmnext stop Prospect Avnext stop City Hall
10:50:09 pmnext stop 25 Stnext stop City Hall
10:52:09 pmnext stop 36 Stnext stop Rector St
10:54:09 pmnext stop 45 Stnext stop Whitehall St-South Ferry
10:56:09 pmnext stop 59 Stnext stop Court St
10:58:09 pmnext stop 59 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
11:00:09 pmnext stop 59 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
11:02:09 pmnext stop 59 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
11:04:09 pmnext stop Bay Ridge Avnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
11:06:09 pmnext stop 86 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech

Showing 16 of 35 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-r-gap-83319.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.