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9 months

Siemens HSR, Football Stadium Urbanism, Trader Joes Parking Lots, & More. On the newest episode of the Better Places Podcast with Myself, Nick, and Matt ( @metamodernismyt )

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Been reading a bunch of articles about how a bus in the suburbs will bring pollution to a town. My response to that.

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The Humvee, a military vehicle with a massive 6.5L turbo diesel motor, has a lower hood than any mid sized pickup truck on the market. Absolutely insane how large pickup trucks have become.

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There is another electric vehicle @andreforatlanta could ride in, and it only costs $2.50. Better for the environment than any 3.5 ton $80k SUV by a country mile.

City of Atlanta, GA

@CityofAtlanta

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Nice car, Mayor @andreforatlanta ! We are electrifying our fleet to move Atlanta forward to a greener, more climate-resilient future. The Atlanta Mayor's official car is now electric. 🔌🚗

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This is the type of housing which creates a dense and productive city without building skyscrapers.

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Gen Z and Millennials want starter condos in cities not starter homes in the exurbs.

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The LA "sun shade bus shelter" discourse is driving me nuts. - No the DoT cannot buy a tent off of Amazon and set it up - No they cannot set up a fully enclosed structure on a 7ft wide sidewalk - Yes decent shelters exist off the shelf but cost $2000-8000

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If your pedestrian/bike ramp for bridge would be completely unacceptable for cars (if scaled up) then its probably not acceptable for bikes or wheel chairs either. Proposing 4 level loop on a public road would get an engineer laughed out of the room.

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I'm going to stick my neck out and say that maybe we shouldn't have cruise terminals in Manhattan, rolling coal over Hells Kitchen.

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Hard to understate how much better Jersey Cities downtown, Newark Ave, feels and operates without cars.

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Bout to give NJT some competition, anyone have half a million dollars?

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If you got to name this theoretical city of almost 3 million people, what would you call it?

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Yeah no, this is the right number of people to dig up a road in NYC. 2-3 flaggers, sight safety engineer, head engineer, 2 heavy equipment operators, and the people who must hand dig the hole. Hand digging is necessary because the the utilities are a 150y/o tangle of tubes/pipes

Eli Lever

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Wanna know why construction is so expensive? It takes a dozen folks to dig a hole...

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Someone explain to me why there is a McMansion on top of this sky scraper...

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@alanthefisher Note this is just a tweet from 2019 that he copied from someone else. Back when Uber was flush with VC money

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Drivers getting to experience what its like to be a vulnerable road user having a massive unstoppable vehicle that's a magnitude their size roll them over.

Los Angeles Scanner

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Video of the train vs car accident earlier today

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Always love looking up and seeing a skybridge. A reminder of another time.

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Jersey congressional representative doesn't know that NJT runs rail service throughout her district with direct service to NYC which is not getting taxed under congestion pricing. Not to mention all the bus service.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill

@RepSherrill

1 year

NYC’s congestion pricing plan is an unfair double tax on the hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who commute to the city each day and will only worsen affordability concerns for my constituents. Last week, I made clear to @USDOTFHWA and @MTA my serious concerns with the plan.

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Urban Jersey Guy

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I feel like we don't talk about the NJT River Line enough. It's all the things people love about small city transit lines in Europe and even uses little Swiss trains. Serves both freight and passenger. Manages 15min headways with significant single tracking.

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A reminder, you can't be denied access to a coastal beach in NJ. You can walk up and down the tidal part of the beach as you will. The tidal land is in a Public Land Trust, so no one person owns the sand which the water touches.

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Time to run more trains and busses, fast.

Repairs for I-95 collapse in Philly expected to take months; Shapiro to issue disaster declaration

Interstate 95 remains closed in both directions in Northeast Philadelphia after a truck fire caused part of the highway to collapse.

www.inquirer.com

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Urban Jersey Guy

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Was thinking about how almost every 20-40 year old bespoke fixed guideway transit solution right now is in a maintenance crisis. Newark AirTrain, JTA Skyway, Morgantown PRT, etc. Can't find anyone to fix their systems as the original builders have moved on.

Laura Fingal-Surma 🫶 urbanist moonshots

@urbanistvc

1 year

Transportation dictates urban form. Why autonomous gondolas were born at Google: The strategic value of transportation. 🧵👇

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I'm glad this exists in the US and in a snowy part of the US no less. When people ask what cycling infrastructure we should be building I don't need to point to Montreal

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Bell Works in Holmdel NJ might be one of the best suburban office park repurposes ever done. In the former Bell Labs building, where they invented things like the transistor.

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Paris is putting $272m spread over 5 years to make the city fully bikeable. The North NJ metro area is about 9x the area of Paris. If we had the same project to make the whole NJ metro area bikeable it would only cost $2.5b. That's only 1/4 the cost of the I-78 expansion in JC.

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@MiamiHerald Drivers are trespassing, it's not much different than a person walking across a limited access freeway. The struggle is not only the train operators but the road operators and the state. The same people who made education campaigns, signage, laws and enforcement for freeways

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A New Jersey consolidated city of roughly this size would be 2.8 million people. Making it the 3rd largest city, between Chicago and LA. Having a density between LA and Baltimore. Makes you think...

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South East PA has some really choice little cities which were never destroyed by highways and some of which could really benefit from renewing regional/local train service.

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Cagercels weeping right now. I have a form of card ID which is accepted in every state and I can use to cross any US land boarder without having a drivers license.

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@CSantucciPhoto @NY1 "Got stuck" kinda in the way that cars "get stuck" on top of pedestrians...

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@hamhammer27 Also it was a buy back not a confiscation lol.

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Making constant little improvements to make life better for everyone should be the norm in every city. Montreal is great at this.

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They should build a new major city here

Socialists For Pritzker

@PritzkerForPrez

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They should build a new major city right here

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My brain is broken by the fact that Atlanta has a metro and after 40 years with said metro is still less than a magnitude less density than basically any random median census tract in Hudson, Essex, Bergen, Union, or Passaic county in NJ, sans modern metro service.

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If you consider NJ to be a contributor to the NYC metro area than it should also be receiving mass transit dollars from congestion pricing.

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It's quite difficult to truly get a scale of the Hudson Bay without taking a boat through it. You can understand why NYC became the center of the US with such a massive protected bay and connected waterways. This is also an amazing shot, props to the photographer.

Paul Seibert

@BEH0LDINGEYE

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“The Narrows” - @SuperRare . This particular shot has never been taken before. Taken at almost 3 miles above NYC in a 🚁 with the doors open. The pilot had to be on Oxygen to legally and safely pilot the aircraft. This is the result of a highly planned and coordinated photo shoot.

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@GeorgeKZI @WorldBollard @elonmusk I see where your going... Just build a train

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The fact that people think its OK to kill kids because they dare walk/drive across their property line, there is a systemic issue in our society. I think of myself walking through back yards to take a shortcut home, to think that people would feel they had the right to kill me...

🇺🇦 Vladimir Trump 🇺🇦

@kicked_got

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So another white, 65 year old asshole with a gun in Upstate NY kills this innocent girl for getting lost and turning around in his driveway. As the car drove away he fired two shots with one round fatally wounding Kaylin Gillis of Saratoga County. Enough is fucking enough!

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The suburbs can have nice things, a pedestrianized plaza in Red Bank NJ. Plenty of businesses taking advantage of it on a Wednesday! I even head a group of young teens on bikes shout "this is awesome!"

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@EclecticHams Man I'm glad we have massive parking minimums, so we can all idle in the driving lane waiting for the drive thru

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Its 6:21am on a Saturday and the PATH train to 33rd Street is full

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Additionally there needs to be enough room for a wheelchair to go around a sitting person at the rest stop, I don't care what they do in Korea, that's the law in the US.

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@alex_sammon @petersterne Reframing fairly complex topic as simple and backed by science/facts. The science is misquoted and simplified, the facts are actually surface level observations. Ends up just being neoliberal faff that makes the average American bob their head up and down.

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Newark in 1986

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Sitting on the ground, thinking on how many rows of seats you could put between the escalators in Moynihan

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NJ has made roughly zero progress in making safe bike lanes outside of Jersey City, but if I were to locate the easiest win for a protected bike lane that would be heavily used it would be Ocean Ave in Monmouth Co. Which is an incredibly wide road which parallels the beachfront

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2 years

With this one simple trick, you can unlock any metro

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Here's my crayon map for a BRT system that could make use of 2 lanes of the Holland tunnel and serve as a "pre-rail supplement". The assumption being we want to move a large number of people across the largest metropolitan area in the US rather than a small number of cars.

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3 years

Lets compare 2 of the highest capacity bridges that cross the Raritan River

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There is surprisingly little unique urbanist content on Youtube. Most of it is just clones of clones of Vox content or the similar.

Geologisms(.furry.vegas)

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STOP

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If we applied international practices to the Jenkinson's Beach Train, one could easily live at Point Pleasant Inlet and commute to Martell's Tiki Bar in under 4.5 seconds (and vice versa). We really don't grasp how transformative frequent high-speed rail would be in this country.

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Urban Jersey Guy

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Let's talk about the Paterson Light Rail proposal by NJT! A really exciting potential project that our transit dollars could go to (Note: we are about to spend $10 billion on expanding a highway in NJ, this is where some of that money could go to)

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I like trains

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Guess who is going to be taking NJT to Newark Penn than the Newark Light Rail to see a beautiful cherry blossom park with 1000 more trees than Washington DC's National Mall.

Tom Roussey

@tomroussey7news

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The worst cherry blossom traffic I have ever seen!!! They made Ohio Drive one way eastbound this year and I’m thinking they need to rethink that. Also they had plans to close East Basin Drive near the Jefferson Memorial but it is open.

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@SakuyaIzayoi06 @MiamiHerald It's chicanes, like on a race track. They put them there to make your commute a little more interesting. They don't call it the rat race for nothing.

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Montreal has a bunch of really funky pedestrian areas thanks to its various urban renewal projects around the metro (for better & worse). This one is the "World Trade Center", which according to the developers is a "horizontal skyscraper". w/ Underground connection to the metro

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What's That Municipality?

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Truck too large for parking lot, check. Taking a pickup to get lunch, check. Tinted license plate covers, check. Tow hitch blocking back license plate, check. Wankpanzer

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No the stations didn't cost $10k each. The total project cost including station design divided by the number of installed stations ended up being $10k, they plan on using the same design across the network. The unit cost is only a fraction of that.

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Being her back

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High speed service from Philadelphia to New York* but not on the Pennsylvania Railroad? Lets take a look at Reading Railroads “The Crusader”. A luxurious and fast regional passenger train with its own custom stainless steel Budd train sets. 🧵

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@BeezyManzell Smaller in area than LA!

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Deep in the depths of one of NJs busiest train stations there is this limo

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It can't be understated how important a grocery store is to a neighborhood. I lived in Newark for 4 years and the only grocery store around I needed to ride a shuttle to. Made living without a car incredibly difficult.

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Not hearing anyone talk about how NJT Busses in Hudson County are above pre pandemic numbers an running at 100% of scheduled service.

How NJ Transit's Hudson County bus service went from 65% to 100% arrival rate in a month

The dramatic improvement of NJ Transit buses in Hudson County comes after years of unreliable service by private operators.

www.northjersey.com

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Guys I found La Sombrita in Montreal

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I-280 is a mistake of a highway, cutting off NJ's largest city in half and disconnecting many neighborhoods from transit, but how much land is it actually taking up in our urban areas. I did a quick and dirty look and it seems roughly 180 acres of prime land near transit.

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I thought this was going to replace the Griffith tower and was about to cry but no, its on the site of a little old 2 story building. Good site. Also seemingly no parking which has to be a first for Newark as far as I'm aware. Good signs all around.

YIMBY Tweets

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2 years

City Officials Approve Arc Tower at 571 Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey

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This is why you hand dig, this is also why you need multiple highly qualified engineers on site.

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@bigmoodenergy Yeah it was probably the worst example that could be used. The tenements were an incredibly outdated housing type and no one wanted to live in them.

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Very dumb, just let kids do things at night a couple times a year. We wonder why children are so insular after removing all their rights to move around alone.

NJ.com Politics

@NJ_Politics

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We need something ‘stronger than a curfew’ to control teen crowds, another Shore mayor says

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In no way should a brand new drive through bank be built 800ft from one of the most well served train station in the US. There is a serious issue in Newark with land use.

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Went to the American Dream Mall (née Xanadu). I've never seen such a packed mall with so few stores. Clearly the other amenities are drawing in people, not shopping. The food courts had impossibly long lines, while some wings were completely empty.

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People love to belly ache about the cost of rail infrastructure in the US while car infrastructure is constantly being widened, resurfaced, rebuilt, reconfigured, etc to the tunes of billions of dollars a year in NJ.

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It has been illegal to declaw a cat in NY and NJ for over 2 years now. Not sure who needs to hear this but I've seen lease agreements that require any cats in an apartment to be declawed.

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Urban Jersey Guy

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What's with Democrat governor's in thinking that building more highways is meeting climate goals?

Governor Kathy Hochul

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The Kew Gardens Interchange project is complete! The overhaul of this corridor is great news for nearly 600,000 daily motorists, pedestrians, cyclists, & our ambitious climate goals. When it comes to modernizing our infrastructure, we’re keeping our foot on the accelerator. 🚘

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This is why we threw billions of tax dollars at building a mall in the middle of the marsh, to host a ghost kitchen burger franchise launch events.

kelsey weekman

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i’m at american dream mall in new jersey for the opening of the first physical @MrBeastBurger location!! Jimmy Donaldson himself is going to be here working. hundreds of people chanting for him now

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Generational theft, clear and simple. Transferring money from all younger residents to land owning elderly residents is insanely regressive let alone the implications for school funding and school enrollment.

NJ Assembly Democrats

@njassemblydems

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A week ago, this year’s state budget was signed and StayNJ, legislation for tax relief to seniors, was a part of it. @SpeakerCoughlin wants seniors to know that they matter and that we want them to remain in NJ and continue to share a life with their family, friends, & community.

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15 min town/city checklist ✅/❌Grade School(s) ✅/❌University ✅/❌Pharmacy ✅/❌Clinic ✅/❌Hospital ✅/❌Supermarket ✅/❌Corner Store ✅/❌Library ✅/❌Park ✅/❌Bar ✅/❌Liquor Store ✅/❌Athletic Center ✅/❌Cinema ✅/❌Regional Transit

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Harrison PATH Station is an absolute fumble of a redesign. No provisions for a bus terminal and a ton of parking and useless plaza that face a high speed 4 lane road. Harrison, Kearny, North Arlington, Ironbound are all underserved by busses.

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If they tear down Madison Square Garden, they could rebuild the mezzanine. Increase circulation above platform level and remove most support pillars on the platform. Pair with wider faster escalators and they could dramatically improve time to board and deboard.

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰

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ReThink Penn be like: we need to create a modern, through running station and bottleneck it in the exact same way original Penn was

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Freehold NJ yearning for some more bike infrastructure at its main bus hub.

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@KetuAlbrecht Another question is are these on septic or sewer...

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"wee it's fun" but what is supposed to be a vital piece of bike and pedestrian infrastructure shouldn't be fun.

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

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Thanks Biden Administration, no thanks Gov Murphy. Who is currently shoving though a useless highway expansion at a cost of over $10b.

Governor Phil Murphy

@GovMurphy

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Today, the Biden Administration announced nearly $4.5 billion in transportation funding for New Jersey – helping us transform our passenger rail infrastructure for decades to come. Thank you @POTUS & @VP for prioritizing our nation’s commuters.

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@BFryback What's that I smell in the air? nationalize nationalize nationalize

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Less than a third of NJ commuters who work in NYC drive into the city. Thats only about 55,000 people, which is a pretty insane way to create policy, to protect a subsidy for the wealthiest people in NJ even though there are hundreds of thousands who could use better transit.

Rep Josh Gottheimer

@RepJoshG

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I was in Teaneck to highlight new efforts to stop the @MTA 's $23/day Christmas-Crushing Congestion Tax, and the disastrous effects it will have on North Jersey families visiting Manhattan for the holidays and commuting to work.

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There's not a single highway in NYC that if turned into a metro rail line, wouldn't double the ridership of any other recent transit project in the US.

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Lets gooooooo. Move Madison Square Garden and allow for major reconfiguration of the most important train station in the nation.

njdotcom

@njdotcom

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NJ Transit, other railroads want Madison Square Garden to move, new report says

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@ewm91 My general take is that the tradeoffs were all forced upon pedestrians and cyclist to make driving as easy as possible. The bridge could have been lower and this loop could have been a nice short ramp, but they optimized for grade separated car infrastructure.

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Urban Jersey Guy

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With the Economist posting some Europeans hot takes on the American Governments love of car dependency, I need to do a breakdown of the absurd ignorance of the facts here.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

10 months

America is far more car-reliant than any other big country, averaging roughly two vehicles per household. This, in turn, is linked to many ills—but there are also some surprising benefits: Illustration: Álvaro Bernis

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Clearly less traffic would create cleaner air, but as an example of how it would create safer streets, take a look at Jersey Ave, one of the main shunpiking streets. Cut through traffic sending thousands of cars down streets while kids are walking to school.

New Jersey Monitor

@NJMonitor

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Congestion pricing: cleaner air and safer streets for New Jersey via @SafeStreetsJC

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Urban Jersey Guy

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As a software engineer it is quite difficult for me to listen to neolibs spout off about projects and systems being "boondoggles". Every complex system has years of conflicting guidance, rotating staff, and a massive backlog of issues...🧵

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Love living by the water, have basically my whole life, but when summer comes around and the whole town smells of diesel fumes every time there is an eastern wind kinda sucks.

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Urban Jersey Guy

@UrbanJerseyGuy

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Ever wonder why New Jersey, the most dense state in the union, doesn't have a major city? Wonder no more, the first episode in my Boroughitis series is out.

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

2 years

Urbanist influencer twitter is making me "Only In My Back Yard" pilled. No amount of "policy failure" posts are going to make me think it's a good idea to put housing on marginal land next to highways, Intermodal ports, or airports. These aren't the places we want people to live

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Urban Jersey Guy

@UrbanJerseyGuy

1 year

Princeton NJ doing the slow streets, no curb thing. I'd like to see more of this across NJ

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

2 years

Averages 33mph before the grade crossing hell which is Camden. Built for only $1.1 billion in the 21st century ($1.73 billion in 2022 funny money). Useful as inter town transit not just commuters. Most people I've talked to love it as well.

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

3 years

We are willing to put up with being treated as sub human in an airport, but some how busses and trains are unfit for people as a form of transit? An NJT coach bus or commuter train is pure luxury compared to an airline experience.

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

2 years

These modern row houses in Philly are real cool, love the architecture. Though it highlights something that happens all too often in Philly, sidewalk parking. Maybe more streets should have sidewalk protectors?

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@UrbanJerseyGuy

2 years

Infill project on Washington St in Hoboken NJ. Replacing a parking lot.

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Urban Jersey Guy

@UrbanJerseyGuy

1 year

The NJT River Line should be extended up to West Trenton, replacing Route 1 and the Delaware and Raritan Canal should be uncapped. Creating a new linear park and shuttling more passengers closer to the center of Trenton.

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