Potential L-Train Closure Shifts From Mild Inconvenience To Terrible Tragedy

“A future shutdown of the L train’s East River tunnel for repairs has had Brooklyn residents and businesses on edge, but Manhattan could get its own transit headache. A full closure of the tunnel — and both of its tracks potentially for more than a year — could lead to a shutdown of the L train stops in Manhattan in addition to halting subway service under the East River, cutting off a key crosstown route.”
 — It seemed like the L train shutdown was going to be a remarkable boon to those of us here in town — keeping people from Williamsburg over there and giving us the perfect excuse for declining all the invitations to their tiresome events — but the news that the line might shut down all together even here is remarkably upsetting: How am I supposed to get across town now, take a bus? I don’t think so.