Help me read the train schedule
September 27, 2006 7:02 PM Subscribe
I can't read the LIRR schedule, can you help me?
OK, it's important that I get from Brooklyn to Long Island tomorrow morning. A friend is leaving from Penn Station in Manhattan and I want to leave from the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenue Station.
When I look at the timetable here
http://mta.info/lirr/html/ttn/wyandanc.htm
It looks like the train leave Flatbush BEFORE it leaves Penn Station. What is up with this? Their is a train that leaves Penn Station at 10:14 AM and one the leaves Flatbush at 10:09 AM. Is this the same train? Why does it appear to leave Brooklyn before Manhattan? How can I meet my friend on it?
OK, it's important that I get from Brooklyn to Long Island tomorrow morning. A friend is leaving from Penn Station in Manhattan and I want to leave from the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenue Station.
When I look at the timetable here
http://mta.info/lirr/html/ttn/wyandanc.htm
It looks like the train leave Flatbush BEFORE it leaves Penn Station. What is up with this? Their is a train that leaves Penn Station at 10:14 AM and one the leaves Flatbush at 10:09 AM. Is this the same train? Why does it appear to leave Brooklyn before Manhattan? How can I meet my friend on it?
Take a look at the map. The Flatbush branch goes to Jamaica, Queens, and meets the Wyandanch train there. Hence the J next to the time in the timetable, which, according to the key, stands for "change trains in Jamaica."
posted by RogerB at 7:14 PM on September 27, 2006
posted by RogerB at 7:14 PM on September 27, 2006
Response by poster: I think I've got it now. We take two different trains but we can meet in Jamaica.
Somehow, that sounds nicer than it will be doesn't it?
Thanks for your help. I must be a small town hick.
posted by dhacker at 7:20 PM on September 27, 2006
Somehow, that sounds nicer than it will be doesn't it?
Thanks for your help. I must be a small town hick.
posted by dhacker at 7:20 PM on September 27, 2006
You aren't; the LIRR schedule is incredibly difficult to read, and FYI, sometimes they make service changes and don't update the website. Hope that doesn't happen to you.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:53 PM on September 27, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:53 PM on September 27, 2006 [1 favorite]
Anyway, if one of you is delayed, the other can check out the immediate area -- it's not Times Square but it's an interesting area of the city that not everyone gets to every day.
posted by hackly_fracture at 7:59 PM on September 27, 2006
posted by hackly_fracture at 7:59 PM on September 27, 2006
make sure your friend gets off the train, cause she doesn't have to switch.
do like bodega says and pick a place to meet, and be on your phones cause you don't have much time.
posted by amethysts at 8:11 PM on September 27, 2006
do like bodega says and pick a place to meet, and be on your phones cause you don't have much time.
posted by amethysts at 8:11 PM on September 27, 2006
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You will have to switch at Jamaica for the train to wherever you are going. When I've had to meet people in situations like this, we pick a location on the track ("middle") and use cell phones to coordinate.
posted by bodega at 7:13 PM on September 27, 2006