They've been to L and back.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement Thursday that a panel of Columbia and Cornell engineers had come up with an alternative to the planned 15-month shutdown of the East River crossing has some New Yorkers all aboard—and others feeling railroaded. Here's our tally of who caught an express train and who was left on the platform.

WINNERS



1. North Brooklyn train commuters: Not only will regular L-train service remain intact, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority intends to go forward with boosted capacity slated for the G, M and 7 lines. New York City Transit President Andy Byford said he intends to cancel the compensatory East River ferry services, and the fate of rerouted bus lines and a high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Williamsburg Bridge is uncertain.



2. North Brooklyn property owners: Williamsburg's retail and residential rents have been in decline and sales nearly nonexistent for the last two years in anticipation of a shutdown. Yes, there's a softening nationwide, but at least with the shutdown threat averted, trendy L-adjacent neighborhoods will no longer be handicapped.

3. Transportation Alternatives: The mass-transit and bicycle advocacy group has long pushed for more bike-lane infrastructure. In preparation for the shutdown, the city added protected lanes on 12th and 13th streets, Delancey Street on the Lower East Side and Grand Street in Brooklyn. The group is now hoping that they will stay. (The Department of Transportation said Thursday that it was reviewing its plans.) "New York City has a transportation crisis, L train shutdown or not," said a Transportation Alternatives spokesman. "Reclaiming space from cars and using that space more efficiently for buses, bikes and scooters—that needs to happen regardless of how the L train work takes place."



4. 14th Street Coalition: The group of neighborhood activists was bitterly opposed to the shutdown and had argued from the start in favor of fixing one tube at a time on nights and weekends, which will now be done. The group had also fought the Department of Transportation's mitigation plans, including the 12th Street and 13th Street bike lanes and 14th Street's division into two lanes from four to accommodate streams of buses. "We feel vindicated," said David Marcus, a West Village resident and founder of the group. But while the neighborhood no longer fears a massive inundation of cars diverted from 14th Street, Marcus is worried that the "busway" and bike lanes—which he argues have been installed on streets that are too narrow for them—will become permanent. The busway, he said, "had been pushed by Transportation Alternatives well before Hurricane Sandy. This was a convenient means to get where they wanted to be."



5. Cuomo: The L train situation let the Democrat strike all his favorite poses: the "infrastructure governor;" the bureaucracy-busting can-do superman; that guy pointing at things inside a halogen-brightened tunnel. He gets all the credit for improving service and accelerating construction, but—as ever with the subway system—will absorb no blame should something go wrong.



LOSERS



1. MTA leadership: NY1 reported Thursday that John O'Grady, NYC Transit's senior vice president of capital program management, retired days before the governor debuted his new plan for the L train. The MTA has long insisted it had no choice but to close the Canarsie Tunnel for at least 15 months (or close one of its tubes at a time for 36 months), and inked a $492 million contract for the repair project. In just weeks, a handful of academics cobbled together what the governor deems a superior plan. It's not a good look for the people Cuomo has installed at the top of the country's biggest mass transit system.

2. Judlau Contracting: This firm landed the contract for the L line job in 2017 despite what an MTA board member described as its "dreadful" work on the Second Avenue subway. Fernando Ferrer, the MTA acting chairman, told reporters that the authority would look to renegotiate the Canarsie Tunnel deal while remaining "within the envelope" of its outlays. Cuomo, on the other hand, argued "less work, less money." And everybody knows who really calls the shots at the MTA.

3. L-pocalypse preppers: Anybody who decided not to renew a lease or—worse—sold a property in North Brooklyn may have regrets.

4. E-scooter companies: A proposed City Council bill to legalize electric scooters made the shutdown central to its case. A spokesman for Councilman Rafael Espinal, the bill's author, said he remained confident of its passage.