The engineering schematic

Fun find this afternoon: In 1957, the Port Authority did the engineering work to link the downtown PATH to the Lexington Avenue subway local tracks.

Some local flavor: downtown JC has a 15% IZ set-aside for upzoned land. In five years, not a single affordable unit has broken ground in downtown JC.

When thr IZO passed, then-councilman Solomon pledged to relax the IZO if it didnt work. Instead he ran on making it more onerous & applying citywide

San Francisco is mulling cutting its inclusionary zoning set-aside from 15% to 5%

www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

I think a regional sales tax district is a more common way of funding transit. It would provide a broader base than a property tax.

How big can a SID be? Could it encompass all/most of a municipality? I don't think it can be multi-municipality since it's implemented at the municipal level.

If we could fund better transit in NJ through a new revenue stream, how would you do it? Didn't Pompidou reveal we could be using special improvement districts for regional/localized public goods?

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The old infrastructure director was a planner. The new one? A traffic engineer.

He pretty much promiaed nothing would be done in the near future.
The previous infrastructure director, who transformed Newark Ave and Bergen Square from parking to public space and built protected bike lanes all over town, resigned as soon as the new mayor took over. 😕

So...tonight JC's new infrasturture director asked neighborhood meeting attendees for a show of hands if we should have paid parking permit zones. Is this how we're going to do street safety improvements now, under the new admin? Straw polls at NIMBY meetings with an average age of 65?

Took Bergen to JFK to Old Bergen on the way down, came back on Ocean and Summit.

Bought a coat rack in Bayonne and biked home with it over my handlebars a couple days ago. It was an odd revelation having cars give me almost the legally required 4 feet of passing clearance. Feels so different, and virtually never happens when youre not carrying a 6-foot pole.

The area really doesnt have that many drivers, but i guess it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone 😔

I can't imagine drivers would be that masochistic when there is a target on the edge of Newport so close, but drivers always surprise me.

This is a neighborhood with about 10,000 residents without cars within a 5 minute walking distance, and another 10,000 at least to come. Nonsensical store planning. It's a glorified convenience store thanks to all the parking.

Anyone who knows the area knows that nobody with a car and a brain will drive into the Journal Sq traffic cauldron to go to Target when they can drive to the two strip mall Targets at the edges of JC that are located off highways.

The parking loses them more customers than it gains them.

The new Target in Journal Sq is a disappointment. The store is too small with not enough variery ir quantity of items in stock, especially value sizes. Fine, but the store 's retail space could easily be 3x larger—above it there are two levels of dedicated "free" parking that sit mostly empty...

Also notes that JC's politicians have done *nothing* to solve the central problem with Christ Hospital: lack of funding.

I would go farther and note they've moved us *further* from a solution on funding, by removing redevelopment as a funding avenue..

In his order denying the city's temporary injunction against closing Christ Hospital on Saturday, Judge Anthony d'Elia basically says Mayor Solomon has been gaslighting constituents with the argument that Christ Hospital illegally closed.

Do you know where the caravan would've been heading? What makes me curious is thay Soknopaiou Nesos seems pretty far from the border of the empire.

The only ethical slopulism is unethical slopulism, where you don’t believe any of the crowd pleasing shit and will do sane policy in office while handwaving away how it’s actually no tax on tips or whatever. Unfortunately both politicians and voters almost always become what they pretend to be.

All NJ charities are required to register here. You can confirm EGS LLc is not:

charportal.dca.njoag.gov/Charity-Regi...

Downtown Dallas Subway ‘D2’ Is No Longer Part of DART’s Long-Term Plans The public transit agency has removed the long-awaited downtown subway line from its capital expense plan, putting the fate of the nearly $2 billion project in question.

www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

And meanwhile they canceled all expansion of their relatively successful light rail network.

Search for tax exempt organizations | Internal Revenue Service Search information about as organization’s tax-exempt federal tax status and filings.

You can search Educational Gilmore LLC in the non-profit IRS database. It's a for-profit business that directly benefits Gilmore.

Constituents sign up for neighborhood updates and get spammed by a for-profit business. This is incredibly sleazy.

www.irs.gov/charities-no...

If you sign up for updates from Ward F councilman Gilmore, he sends you advertisements for his for-profit business "Educational Gilmore Speaks LLC." The proceeds benefit the "EGS Scholarship Fund," which just means he gives kids discounts for his "services" and pockets the money.

Grifter.

If your inclusionaey zoning is well calibrated, you can get vurtually 100% utilization without making it a mandate.

If it is poorly calibrated and it is a mandate, it will raise rents by reducing supply.

Bayonne studied adding a footbridge 2 years ago, but no movement.

www.bayonnenj.org/Notices/View...

There is a Lidl right across the street from the 34 St light rail station in Bayonne, but annoyingly there is no crosswalk across the street at the intersection there, and it's a busy highway.

I dont know how they do it without losing money.

I went to the Lidl on 32 St in Manhattan today and the produce was cheaper than at the Korean fruit stands in McGinley Square (and fresher). The first time I've ever found cheaper produce in a supermarket than these produce places.

There are emipirical papers with similar findings, too.

e.g., a 1% increase in housing costs every year in the Baltimore-Washington metro region.
www.jstor.org/stable/26999...