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Viral plan to close L train's 3rd Ave stop saves commuters time

A software engineer's analysis found that skipping the Third Avenue stop would save L train riders over 1,800 hours collectively each day, because the station's dwell time delays everyone onboard.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA software engineer's analysis of the L train went viral this week, and it argues that skipping the Third Avenue stop in Manhattan would save riders more than eighteen hundred hours a day.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistEighteen hundred hours? They're voting a station off the island, and the station didn't even get a speech.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe New York Post reports the reasoning is simple: every stop costs everyone on board a little time, and this one costs the most.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo the stop is the one holding everyone up. Thirty seconds of dwell time, and it still thinks it's special.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have seen countries redrawn on less evidence.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistWhich stop is next, then? My corner's got a bench and a pigeon, and that's about it.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWhichever stop gets the most complaints, Brock. On this desk, that would be us. Hashtag skipped.

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