L Train Delays Cause 'Dangerous' Platform Conditions: Passengers

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — L train straphangers reported extensive delays and a “dangerous” number of people in stations during rush hour Friday morning as the MTA scrambled to fix a broken switch.

“@MTA this isn’t just ‘delays’. This is zero L Trains and dangerous platform conditions” wrote Marcy Lang on Twitter. “FIX THE SUBWAYS BEFORE SOMEONE DIES.”

The recent “bomb cyclone” snow storm and resulting deep freeze caused switch problems at the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway station near Glenwood Road around 8:15 a.m., said the MTA.

A crew was assigned to the station to fix the broken switch, but straphangers reported up to 90 minute delays and overcrowded platforms on social media.

Can someone please help us L train people we’re freezing and people are fighting SOS pic.twitter.com/N4lLAQd6cs
— Hanna Cannell (@hannacannell) January 5, 2018

After waiting an hour and a half to get on a L train I decided to come back home pic.twitter.com/yvcXAgTutG
— Belizean Beki (@xoxo_Beki) January 5, 2018

@NYCTSubway it’s 11 degrees and people have been trying to get on a train for more than an hour. #ltrain
— Samantha Jones (@_samanthajones1) January 5, 2018

In four years of living in New York, I've seen some things. I've never seen the L train this bad.
— Brick By Brick (@CoryTownes) January 5, 2018

Some Canarsie-bound trains made their last stop at Sutter Avenue and shuttle buses ran between Sutter Avenue and the Canarsie station.

Photo courtesy @LadyZombie/Twitter