Sales tax is definitely the common way. Was thinking about extensions of lines like JFK BRT or light rail to Bergen County/Newark. The land values close to the stations will benefit the most right?
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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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?
Original headline: Five groups getting fucked by World Cup
But we're a family news org, I'm told.
Story by my esteemed colleague Katie Sobko
New York City's lack of daylighting is atrocious.
Signal priority feels like a really big opportunity. But today NJ Transit says they have no standard for doing this. If they had a way, then cities and counties could start providing this whenever they are redoing or upgrading their traffic lights.
The reality is we need to start with moving some stop lines, removing some parking, and rigorously enforcing double parking. More cojones could get us to some left-turn restrictions and painting some provisional bus lanes red. It's here-and-now not in some far off future. We'll need to push for it.
Oof, less than 5 mph really puts things in perspective. We have to organize. What I think I'm most afraid of on the local/county levels is long-termism and the attitude of can't-do without grand plans like full BRT and relying completely on magical external funding.
Nice one. Denominators will save democracy.
Not enough attention is paid to buses in NJ.
From FY2025 ridership data, I estimate there were at least 30M NJ Transit bus rides in Hudson County. For context, PATH serves 60M rides a year, the HBLR serves 15M, and the NEC serves 22M.
Why are these buses ever stuck in traffic?
Time of day is fair. If there's no bus coming even though there is a route Via can plug the gap for that situation.
The starting point is actually also a two minute walk, albeit uphill, from the 10/119, also among the top bus lines in NJ, serving millions of rides a year. In the mornings, buses come every 3 minutes. Not okay to take a car funded by the city!
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Map of a roundabout microtransit route from West Side Ave to JSQ in Jersey City, NJ
Reality is microtransit in Jersey City can be cheaper than NJT's low-frequency bus routes; but NJT's high-frequency routes have lower costs. Serving transit deserts is one thing. A rider refusing to ride the bus to JSQ – on one of the busiest bus lines in the state – is not a good use of Via. Ban it
One thing about riding year round including when there is salt everywhere is the chain rusts easily and changing it can be a hassle. Counting links, chain breaking down to a custom length, who wants the fuss?
Just discovered ordering custom length chains from KMC! Was done in ~5 minutes, easy-peasy
It also feels incorrect. Commissioner is normally an appointed position and who is delegated a job by a broader more powerful governing authority. It does not at all sound like an elected position.
I am aware of this very strange myth of traffic/planning people denying that buses could travel through the Holland Tunnel due to height. It could be something like the taller commuter non-transit buses might not fit but that buses altogether don't fit is not the reality.
Bus 120 (which I wished cut-through downtown JC and made a couple of stops) and Academy runs some buses to Wall St. However if traffic is bad sometimes they will use the Lincoln Tunnel XBL as a faster long cut 😭.
Even Reddit is fed up with dangerous intersections like Jersey/Grand. Everyone is exposed to danger here, pedestrians, cyclists, patients and drivers.
I never know if it’s safe to proceed through the intersection when cars make sudden and desperate left turns.
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You can tell from the shape usually - lead is much more malleable and usually looks a bit misshapen - and there's a scratch test too
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Is any of this about political choices? Or even technology? The GPS *was* purchased but wasn't turned on. Even if you rely on paper or supervisors, how do you not have quality control?
Honestly all sounds like a mirror of the parking enforcement division.
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Kind of loving this postmortem from Mayor Solomon about the failures by Jersey City in the last couple of snowstorms. Two takeaways:
1. Climate change is messing with transmission of knowledge. We have no idea how to deal with snow anymore.
2. City has lacked strong professional managers. /
Buses here are too often stuck in traffic even though they provide millions of rides a year. Hudson County needs to finally build BRT on JFK. Go Ron!
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We actually already basically have this through a different mechanism – a per square foot parking lot license fee – but it is an absolute number, not a percentage like property taxes, and we haven't adjusted the fee for inflation or demand increases since the 1990s 🤦
Love a good stop sign, but can someone cool tell me why this post about a new stop sign in Jersey City is going viral?
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Bergen County proposed a massive new redevelopment housing project and brand new Hackensack bus terminal, which was set to start construction last fall.
It would have been a win-win-win for NJ Transit.
It hasn't happened and no one knows why.
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Horrible rise in housing costs incoming. Really don't love how much we play musical chairs with housing and deny that the answer is more housing.
Something that is a long-time coming, but Detroit is a sunset industry. Not really sure how they could be a potent interest group in another 5 years. Not just the self-owns of tariffs, high oil prices, but most importantly the wave of Chinese vehicles.
I felt there was a swell of sentiment after Ukraine was invaded, but it died off pretty quick. It would certainly be something if there was bipartisan support for e-bikes and bus lanes.
One of the wild things about the accusations that Scutari was selfishly acting in the interests of insurance companies with NJ's bad new e-bike law is – that's exactly what the insurance industry said about the bill. Good for business $$$. 🤑💰💸
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