Yesterday evening I got a “special alert” from the Straphangers Campaign about that shiny, elusive train with which I have such a profound love/hate relationship: The L Train. Oh crap. The alerts usually come much later in the week, so I know something must be up. Keep in mind that the past two weekends the L has only run in sections, the main one being between Lorimer Street and 8th Ave, requiring all the poor suckers that live more than 2 stops in to take shuttle buses and generally causing all sorts of slow-downs and massive levels of annoyingness. Well, the third time is the charm for them this weekend when, yet again, there will be no train service between here and Manhattan. Here’s the MTA’s diversion and alternative route sign (which reads like a Dicken’s novel–are they paid by the word or what) but I like mine much better.

Remember you can make your own faux subway signs here.

Anyone else stuck in the burg this weekend? Or the farther L train recesses?