Draft Report: To Withstand Storms, Build a Bigger Bus System
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Why not light rail with dedicated ROW then?
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Ferry accident at Pier 11 injures dozens Updated at 04:08 PM today http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...ork&id=8947393 http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wa...rrydamage3.jpg Quote:
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Beam Charging is getting serious in NYC;
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So go ahead and buy that Tesla Model S. Turns out NYC metro is a big push for the company with more sales outlets (5) than any other NA metro area. LA has 3, the Bay Area 2 and South Florida 2. Check out dealership locations; http://www.teslamotors.com/findus/stores |
Whatever became of the double decker trail program?
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High Bridge Restoration Effort To Revive Landmark Span By: NY1 News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJLMxD4YABg http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/1/11...ea258f3f85.jpg Quote:
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MTA Begins "Fastrack" Repairs On B, D Lines Tonight By: NY1 News http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stori...-lines-tonight http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/1/14...dbc0485512.jpg Quote:
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School bus strike
The Union representing NYC school bus drivers have announced workers will go on strike, effective Wednesday morning. About 150,000 students will be affected.
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MTA Puts Brakes On Union-Endorsed Subway Slowdowns
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Yeah, I support worker's rights to unionize, but this smacks of extortion. It wouldn't matter 10mph v the current 15-25mph for suicides (you go to the rear of the platform) or the occasional slip/push. It's a train, it's hard to stop. Might there be 1 or 2 deaths fewer every decade by slowing down trains entering a station? Perhaps, but overall the TWU doesn't really care about that. This is a cynical way to increase overtime pay by tragedy and I'm gonna call it "foul". |
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No End In Sight To School Bus Strike By: Lindsey Christ http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stori...ool-bus-strike http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/1/16...ebe66d5792.jpg Quote:
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South Ferry subway repairs could take 3 years, cost $600M Last Updated: 7:57 AM, January 18, 2013 http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...psf8e6ba59.jpg Fixing all the damage inflicted on the South Street subway station by Superstorm Sandy may take up to three years. Last month, the MTA said the repairs would take at least a year. But on Thursday, the agency said it estimates that fully restoring the station would take much longer and cost $600 million. That includes $350 million for physical repairs; $200 million for signal replacement; $30 million for third-rail equipment and $20 million for line equipment. The South Ferry subway station, at Manhattan's southern tip, was inundated with water up to its ceiling during the storm. The No. 1 train station underwent a $545 million renovation and expansion in 2009. The station is a major conduit to the Staten Island and Liberty Island ferries. http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/man...slB4kNxOlkhRKL |
That's a real shame! What can you do though . . .
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Delta Plans Soaring Views At New JFK Terminal By: NY1 News http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stori...w-jfk-terminal http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/1/29...e63853be40.jpg Quote:
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These were first installed during the Ed Koch era
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City's No Honking Signs Make Quiet Exit By: NY1 News http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stori...ake-quiet-exit http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/1/29...ec46d8cea6.jpg Quote:
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I hope they do bring it back but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't. |
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City Celebrates 100 Years Of Grand Central Terminal By: NY1 News http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stori...ntral-terminal http://media.ny1.com/media/2013/2/1/...a15c1a5990.jpg Quote:
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Manhattan Water Main Break Disrupts N, Q, R Service By: NY1 News http://www.ny1.com/content/transit/1...--q--r-service Quote:
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did i just read yet another proposal to expand the 7 train to nj somewhere? cant find it. railway age maybe??
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found it -- the 7 train extension to nj is being promoted by realtors:
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The fact is that NJ has failed to truly invest in keeping itself connected to the largest employment center in the country. The uncaring attitude from NJT following Sandy is making things even worse. This will not bring success for urban NJ. Gateway would solve may of these issues but it isn't designed or funded so you're talking about 10-15 years to get it operating at this point if the money can even be gotten from the Feds. If the only real near term option on the table is an MTA 7 extension NJ should push for it to go all the way to downtown Newark to get the most benefit. |
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Getting back to the Gateway Project its not just tunnels , its replacing Bridges an Interchange and the Newark Approaches....so its not just a small tunnel replacement but a larger regional project that has gained some steam engineering wise due to Sandy... |
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On second thought...never mind. If this happened I'd actually have to consider moving our business to Newark instead of Long Island City/Sunnyside. |
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Secaucus isn't wetlands. The part near the station is an expressway, a TOD that's inexplicably on the wrong side of the expressway, a railyard, truck docks, and light industry. Of the four quarters around Secaucus bounded by the NEC and the Erie line, only the southwestern one is wetlands.
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Secaucus is where the infrastructure is. Pointless to talk about where the office jobs are moving when it's illegal to build high-density office buildings near Secaucus Junction due to zoning. Move the railyards and the storage facilities somewhere that's not as close to Manhattan by transit and build it up. Ideally you'd want to eventually map streets connecting to the residential part of Secaucus today; there are a few km in between, mostly far from the station, but at least part of that in between area is still near the NEC and they could open another station there serving local traffic; the cost of four-tracking everything up to the tunnel portal to avoid conflicts with intercity trains is by ARC standards a rounding error.
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As for 4 tracking , that would come with the Gateway Project , and is needed....in the morning Amtrak and everyone crawls....with 4 tracking Amtrak would speed through although Secaucus's weird design might make that hard...but still faster then today. They already started clearing a path for the new ROW.... 4 tracking along with an upgraded Kearny JCT which was never fully built , will allow for more M&E trains to enter the NEC without messy up the schedule. In the Morning if your on the M&E you have to wait for NEC trains to clear , although this applies to any time of day. Sometimes takes up to 10 mins before you can merge onto the NEC. All the plans call for using current ROW through Secaucus not around it...unless i read wrong.... High Rise Proposals http://galaxyrising.com/ee/images/ph...ecaucus/01.jpg http://galaxyrising.com/index.php?/t...n_in_secaucus/ TOD... http://policy.rutgers.edu/vtc/tod/ne...ecaucusMAP.pdf |
Those towers look like one of the TODs around the lesser-used SkyTrain stations here. Sorry. Around the more heavily used stations, this is possible with a town center created from scratch at the same time SkyTrain opened. Only Secaucus should plan on doing this on larger scale, first because New York is bigger than Vancouver, and second because New York has very few places where this TOD intensity can be done without needing to spend tons of money on one tunnel.
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I can't see Secaucus Junction getting any kind of development until there is some sort of all-day frequent transit service, even if the zoning allowed it.
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Even if that were true, it's hardly "frequent". It's not quite true though. Scheduled mid-day weekday headways reach as high as 34 minutes to NYC, and as high as 56 minutes to Hoboken.
Anyways, when I saw frequent I'm talking no more than 12-15 minutes at the VERY MOST to NYC. That's the kind of frequency that attracts dense TODs. |
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Even if there was demand, where is there room to build a walkable TOD (walkable meaning not only within the TOD itself, but to/from the train station):
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Secau...ew+Jersey&z=16 The station is hemmed in by a freeway, freeway ramps, and marshland https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Secau...ew+Jersey&z=18 That parking lot is the only obvious place. |
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Ridership on hourly off-peak trains isn't a good gauge of ridership on usable trains. There's no development there. Might as well tell me that there's no off-peak service on the West Coast Express at all, so why bother investing in slower rapid transit to Port Moody and Coquitlam? And yet once the trains are usable by people who aren't suburban peak-hour commuters, they're more usable, and ridership projections say the slower Evergreen Line will get 70,000 daily passengers vs. 11,000 on the (longer, faster) West Coast Express. Frequency means everything, everywhere. Stamford and White Plains are getting a trickle compared to what Brooklyn is getting, and don't even compare well with secondary rapid transit-oriented centers in Vancouver. Again, look at Metrotown. |
Who cares about train headways? The real question is why would want to live or work in Secaucus?
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As for Stamford, White Plains, etc., those are the downtowns of good sized cities on their own right, and are their own regional draws. That is not what the term "TOD" is usually used to describe. That's like calling Lower Manhattan a "TOD". |
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Secaucus, meanwhile, is not 10-20 miles outside the city. It's 5 miles. It's the same distance to Manhattan as central Queens, where riders abandoned the LIRR's hourly service in favor of the subway in the 1920s, forcing station closures. |
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Secaucus has stereotypes and now a flooding haze hanging over them , which aside from the one TOD and apartments near Route building any large scale TOD is going to be a tough sell. Its isolation and lack of "Live , work , play" attraction also plays into its shrinking future. Which is why after this TOD is completed , I don't see others coming along. This is different then the Vancouver Metro or Toronto Metro which are booming everywhere , growth is generally happening in either in the Core Cities or Satilite cities. Everywhere in between has had a few successes and mostly failure even with great transit.... |
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But why such emphasis on Secaucus which I don't think will last nor survive....its dying....even the new developments are dead....aside from being occupied by commuter couples without children. We should be focusing on Newark , Paterson , and Elizabeth along with Bridgeport areas with enormous amounts of land , yet no one touches it due to old stereotypes....same with Secaucus and now its even worse due to Sandy. If you fight the stereotypes then you'll see more construction and the region will balance it self out. Its not really the legality , its the culture of the region and the stereotypes... Thats slowly changing the NJ Gold Coast has boomed over the last 15 years , Newark is just starting to blossom but has a long way to go. Theres also the slow decontamination process of parts of the region , it take 10-15 years before certain areas are completely cleaned up and ready to build on in Urban Jersey and the Outer Borough's. |
2-3 tph is not decent for an urban neighborhood. It's the kind of schedule that makes people continue to take the subway and ignore commuter rail.
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