Source: New York Times
Author: MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Many riders tussle daily with the timeless question: local or express? But for the denizens of the N, R or Q trains, traveling uptown through Midtown, the calculus is a bit more complicated.
Every morning, during peak commuting periods, two trains often arrive at about the same time. Sometimes the express leaves first. Sometimes it is the local. Sometimes at least two local trains will depart before a single express does. Sometimes they move together. And virtually every time there is a decision to be made, riders scamper across the platform, groping for a competitive travel advantage even as they are unsure why they have made their choice.
Categories: Americas, United States
Wow that’s funny. They should adopt what we have in Toronto- a signage system. An arrow usually lights up to indicate the train that will leave the platform first.