‘Usual Chaos’ On The F Train Today

The F train certainly gets its fair share of criticism (say, for example, it’s super slow and had the most delays out of all the subway lines last year) – and this morning was no different, when riders took to Twitter to tell the MTA about the debacle that was this morning’s commute, including that “today the F train was that special place in hell” and that the insanely crowded subway platform makes “me wish that I had an F train voodoo doll and an unlimited supply of pins,” among a litany of other complaints.

While we lucked out and weren’t on the F this morning, several neighbors wrote to us and described to us what they experienced.

“There was the usual chaos that occurs every few weeks,” one neighbor wrote. “Got too crowded on the platform, was told nothing would arrive for 15 minutes. Once we got on the F, it apparently turned into a G after Bergen, but of course they don’t even have working intercom on train. Naturally, at Hoyt it was total chaos to get to the A train…. My main issue is that, here in 2014, they still can’t effectively communicate to its customers? What if there was actual emergency? We’re taking about intercoms!”

Jackson, another neighbor, said they’ve started walking to the Church Avenue B/Q subway station just to avoid taking the F.

“Walking an extra 15 minutes is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth it so I’m not always freaking late to work,” he wrote.

Hunter Walker, the politics editor at Business Insider, too lamented this morning’s travel woes:

https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/527816558090133504

To which Councilman David Greenfield said legislators are working on getting a meeting set up to discuss how to make the F train a happy place that doesn’t elicit dreams of voodoo dolls (including the possibility of F express service):

In one of our favorite slams of this morning’s F train, saga, New Yorker contributor Eric Lach said:

https://twitter.com/ericlach/status/527812609303515136

While another rider noted that when they did manage to get on the train, they were then surprised to see that they were being abandoned by that (not so) fearless leader of an F train:

Looks like an apt description to us (as photographed by thomasls):

But, hey, at least we found company in our misery:

Did you take the F train this morning? What did you experience?

We’ve also reached out to the MTA for comment.