Turns Out the L Train Is So Overcrowded, It’s Harder to Get into than Hamilton

L Train, bound, slowly, for Manhattan.
Since 1998, L train ridership has increased by 98 percent, a jump that’s been escalated since 2007, when a new signal system increased train frequency throughout the city. In 2014, the MTA—which had taken particular note of L train backlogs at both the Bedford Avenue and 1st Avenue stations—proposed a $300 Million project to increase L train capacity by as many as 2,200 additional passengers per hour, bui