The L train: not just cool because of the starving artists that ride it
If you're headed out to Billsburg to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon quietly getting smashed at the Brooklyn Brewery or taking a self-guided Notorious B.I.G. Reality Tour in Bed-Stuy, the train to take you there will soon be operated by a burly unionized robot with a thick accent that reminds you to "Washdaclosindaws."
Well, not really. The new L trains have automated announcements by radio personality Charlie Pellett for a few years now, and the system isn't really robot-driven -- it's a computerized communication system that allows trains to run closer to one another and will one day make on-platform information on when the next train will arrive possible in the century-old system.
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rj3 | 11:23 AM |
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