They're coming for your subway stop

A friend pointed me to this site whose owner (Josh) has started a petition to close one of 356 subway stations in New York. The station being targeted is the 3rd Avenue stop on the L train that takes commuters from downtown Manhattan into Brooklyn. At least, that's Josh's motivation since he is one of those commuters.He throws out some scary numbers.Evidently, over 1,800 hours per day are "saved" if the L train just skips that one stop. The underlying economic driver is that the 3rd Avenue L stop has relatively low traffic. Only about 6 percent of the riders get on or off the train from that station. At the opposite end of the ranking, we see Penn Station, which is the most popular stop across the entire MTA network.Josh's analysis is based on public data. The data concern trip origins and destinations so pretty much every time-based item is guesstimated. How much time the train spends at a stop; the additional time spent walking if the 3rd Avenue stop no longer exists; etc.The…